Sometimes real life imitates art. In the case of political correctness gone awry, Wesleyan University President has become South Park‘s PC Principal.
In a Huffington Post op-ed published on Saturday, WU President Michael Roth defended the pseudo-intellectual identity movement and recent campus protests that have taken place on colleges across the country.
“When students support Black Lives Matter or take classes in Africana Studies, or Asian American Studies or Women’s Studies, they are not just ‘studying themselves,'” Roth said. “They are studying groups of people who have been systematically kept out of the mainstream narrative of our culture’s history.”
Roth credited the expansion of “diversity” education to activists who have demanded a more identity-based curriculum over — well, a real education.
The UW president said that political correctness is not “haunting college campuses across the country,” but instead is “a charismatic bogeyman with strange powers to titillate liberal and conservative writers.”
He went to detail how the campus protests are opening conversations about “economy, about bias and sexual assault, about jobs and the shrinking middle class.”
That would be fine if there was an actual conversation happening, but only in the world of a PC Principal could liberal students demanding trigger warnings, diversity training, required classes centered around identity politics, and speech codes be considered “a conversation.”
These protestors are a mob, plain and simple — and their demands are the opposite of a classical liberal education, debate, and freedom. They want left-wing totalitarianism.
