U.S. college issues politically correct “speech codes” to students and faculty, demanding obedience to the authoritarian Left
by: Ethan Huff
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Amherst College, one of the most liberal institutions of “higher learning” in America today, has unveiled a 40-page speech code for students and faculty that explains what they can and cannot say on campus in order to maintain their political correctness.
Created by Amherst’s “Office of Diversity and Inclusion,” the extensive booklet, entitled, “Common Language Guide,” is a glossary of terms that spells out what types of speech and language the Left deems “acceptable,” as opposed to everything else, which is considered “hate” speech.
Broken down into categories such as “isms,” “race and ethnicity,” “gender identity,” “class,” “politics and policy,” “global power and inequality,” and “disability,” the booklet leaves no form of communication untouched, arguing that strict speech and language guidelines are necessary to create “tolerance.”
“This project emerged out of a need to come to a common and shared understanding of language in order to foster opportunities for community building and effective communication within and across difference,” the booklet explains.
The document further takes aim at “capitalism,” which it describes as “exploitative labor practices” that marginalize “groups disproportionately.” It also chastises “white feminism,” claiming that it’s “predicated upon the erasure of women of color and the ways in which racism and sexism converge and compound one another.”
As far as “equality” goes, the document takes an anti-white perspective, arguing that true equality as any rational person would define it “ignores historical and structural factors that benefit some social groups / communities and harm other social groups / communities.”
And then there’s race, which the document describes as a “social construction,” as opposed to a biological reality. And of course it’s “European (white) scientists” who are responsible for inventing it “to rank humans based on perceived biological differences rooted in appearance, skin tone and ancestral homelands.”
The whole idea of race, it concludes, “is intricately linked with the practice of white supremacy, which continues to have damaging impacts on communities of color globally.”
“Common Language Guide” introduced one day before President Trump signed executive order pledging punishment for colleges and universities that obstruct free speech
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