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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

In todays academy, truth is an invention. Expecting people to show up on time is racist. Censorship is good. Silencing opposing viewpoints imperative. Violence to enforce safety is natural.

For the last 25 years, under the guise of political correctness, weve been watching the inexplicable flow into our culture. The idiotic demands of political correctness in the 1980s, ironically relying on the decency of the American people for their acquiescence, was just the prep course, an amuse bouche before the main course of creating social chaos and destruction.

It sounds dramatic, and it is, and its also the only way the left maintains power brainwashing people into believing that social norms must be destroyed in order to create a more perfect society. From the ashes would emerge the great collective phoenix.

Just ask the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Cuba and Venezuela how well that works out.

Last year, we watched political correctness on campus jump with abandon into its perfected state of fascism. Within a year, we moved from weeping students demanding safe spaces to direct, organized violence to stop speakers who do not pay allegiance to the lefts status quo.

Perhaps with the ascent of Donald Trump, it was the shock of realizing the American people werent Venezuelan and were not inclined to commit mass suicide.

Consider some recent revelations, the natural trajectory from the crowd a generation ago that was demanding manhole covers be called personhole covers, and making mailman, fireman, and policeman all verboten. We assented, and a thousand steps later:

Reporting about Pomona College: Black students condemn truth as an invention of white people, want conservatives expelled. News about Clemson University: Public universitys diversity training: Expecting people to show up on time is racist. A headline about the work of an ungraduated researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison: Teachers should allow Ebonics because English grammar is too hard for minorities to learn.

This activism at the academy is not only classically fascist, it destroys the future for the young people awash in its conditioning. Imagine, after all: What business, what culture, could survive a generation that thinks expecting people to be on time is racist?

Attempting to enact Orwellian rules at college is just one pastime of students. Free Beacon comments on the direct and often violent efforts to stop nonliberal speakers from being heard:

With Notre Dame students feeling unsafe at the prospect of Vice President Mike Pence speaking at their commencement, the riots at Berkeley caused by the presence of professional troll Milo Yiannopoulos on campus, and the explosive protest in March against author Charles Murray at Middlebury College that resulted in the assault of a professor, the war on campuses against freedom of expression and hearing opposing views is pervasive and troubling.

To say the least.

Last week, the University of California at Davis Student Senate voted to remove the American flag from Student Senate meetings. If you want it to be visible, you have to file a petition in an effort to convince others.

Todd Starnes reported one UC Davis students support of the action on her Facebook post: Why do you feel that advocating for the U.S. flag that represents a history of genocide, slavery, and imperialism is more important than stuff that actually matters like I dont know, the violence against our LGBTQ Brown and Black students, rising tuition, resources for our students without homes, she fumed. What a waste of time.

The odds are quite high that the students at this public university are relying on a variety of federal, state and alumni loans to finance their rage against the machine. Perhaps some of the assistance should be reconsidered when a classic education is taking a backseat to social justice warrioring. On Monday, I appeared on Tucker Carlsons Fox News program discussing this after the student leaders canceled a planned appearance on the program. Apparently, their college bubble was threatened.

Yet, college was supposed to be the bubble destroyer. Leaving home and all familiar, thrown into a new, challenging world. You are to be prepared for a world bigger than you, and certainly different from you.

Instead, we are infantilizing students, appeasing and placating them, condemning them to a life uncertain. Who needs time management? The ability to work and live with people unlike yourself? Why not resort to violence because youre upset or angry or irritated?

It has been a perfect storm creating this disaster, one of which is the lowering of expectations of students in general because of the rot of political correctness. Our public schools have failed so miserably, universities now cant hold applicants to any sort of standard.

Consider the frighteningly absurd decision by Stanford, as The Wall Street Journal reported: Every year, Stanford asks its applicants an excellent question: What matters to you, and why? Ziad Ahmed of Princeton, N.J., summed up his answer in three words. His essay consisted of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter repeated 100 times. He got in.

We can answer Stanfords question quite simply: What matters to us are college degrees that still mean something; graduates who are ready to contribute to society and are ready to pursue dreams in business, life and society. What matters to us is the future. What matters is us winning this existential fight for students and a nation being abandoned by the liberals running our universities.

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Political correctness continues to run amok - Washington Times

TheUniversity of California Los Angeles (UCLA) administration is allegedly trying to sack an outspoken conservative professor for his resistance to political correctness.

Keith Fink, a UCLA professor who teaches classes on entertainment law and free speech, fears the university could an upcoming professional review to helppush him out of the institution.

Fink has previouslycaused waves on campus by refusing to embrace trigger warnings and safe spaces, prompting the universityto block some students from taking his classes.

University policy dictates that every lecturer must undergo a periodic Excellence Review to judge their performance.

If a panel of senior faculty members decide the professor doesnt meet the excellence standards, they are forced to leave the position.

Fink told The Daily Wirethat such reviews are normally just a formality, but the university administration is throwing obstacles in his path.

According to the emails acquiredby the Wire,the officials have reprimanded Fink for incorrect admin in soliciting statements from students to support his teaching a charge Fink denies.

He also claims the department ignoring his nominees for students to contact and using a different list, purposefully skipping one which praised him particularly strongly. Only when he noticed that the document was missing, the department fixed the allegedly accidental mistake.

The student who wrote the letter toldthe site:No reasonable person would believe that my letter was accidentally omitted from the dossier, because presumably it flatly contradicts the departments narrative, the student said.

They asked me what my honest opinion was, and I spent hours articulating how Professor Fink is an excellent instructor and explaining the impact he has had on my life.It infuriates me to hear they attempted to (by accident or by malice) discard my opinion simply because it contradicts their mission.

TheUCLA administration also solicited a number of negative letters from students, which the professor believes are exaggerated.

One allegedly accuses him of using racial slurs without the context that he was teaching a class on the First Amendment and whether they were protected.

Fink told the Wire:The way the system is, this is the easiest way for them to get rid of me. This is the perfect storm.

Heat Street has contacted UCLA for a comment, but has yet to receive a response.

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UCLA Conservative Professor May Be Fired From Job For Refusing to Cave In to Political Correctness - Heat Street

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Ripon College 1:07 p.m. CT April 18, 2017

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RIPON - Jake Jacobs, a speaker, writer and historian, will present Political Correctness: Stifling Freedoms in Schools and Society at Ripon College from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the campus. Free pizza and beverages will be provided.

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Jacobs teaches history at Lourdes Academy in Oshkosh. He is the president and founder of Liberty Proclamation Education and has degrees in American history and biblical and Judeo-Christian studies from Arizona State University, Ashland Theological Seminary and North-West University. He has spent more than 28 years in public and private high schools as well as at the college level, teaching his passion for our Constitutional Republic under God, all the while stressing historical correctness, in the face of politically correct intimidation by the academic establishment.

As a public high school teacher, he publicly defended Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Fox & Friends. He is a popular speaker for Young Americans for Freedom, conservative radio, and Tea Party, civic and church events.

For more information about Ripon College, visit ripon.edu.

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'Political correctness' focus of talk Wednesday at Ripon College - Fond du Lac Reporter