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In his scholarly paper, ‘Academic Freedon in the Age of Political Correctness’ Jay Schalin speaks of such cases and the gives the defintion of speech code as, “policies prohibiting speech that would, outside the boundaries of the campus, be protected by the First Ammendment.” popecenter.org So, how PC do our professors have to be? Or is that just double talk for Liberal? Of course there are private colleges where the Board can pick and choose the faculty. These, however, are state schools so there shouldn't be a fear mongering leftist party who will tell on you if use the wrong word or if you somehow “trigger” them. Some attribute the lack of conservative faculty to growing amounts of special interest groups on campuses. That within itself must change. If you are educated in an echo chamber then you will always live in that echo chamber and God save us all if these are the kids who will be in control of our future. The political correctness of the Third Wave Feminists is enough. There are so many sub-groups that you have to watch out for because if you say the wrong word du jour, lest you be branded a racist.  Imagine what these professors must feel. Let us look at an example. In the New York Times article, Confession of Liberal Tolerance, (@https://twitter.com/nickkristof?lang=en) George Yancy who is a professor of Sociology, an Evangelical, and happens to be black says, “Outside of academia I faced more problems as a black…Inside academia I face more problems as a Christian and it is not even close.” That is a pretty strong message.

It seems to me that being a conservative professor or student at universtiy is much like being a closeted homosexual. There is too much stigma, too much judgement and definitely too much fear. The liberals who pride themselves on supposedly being open minded have become a leftist progressive party who want people to think you are welcome to their all inclusive party, unless you aren’t.