>From NY Daily News:
So Sensitive
Political correctness on the loose
Here are some news stories you may have missed:,
Police in Gloucester, England, are cracking down on racism by
entering restaurants in disguise to listen for bigoted
conversation. In the first week of Operation Napkin, one man was
arrested for unacceptable table talk. Another was briefly
detained for mimicking an Indian waiter.
,Maybe children can help the police by becoming amateur speech
cops at home. Columnist John O'Sullivan notes that an official
,1999 British report proposed criminalizing racist remarks made
in the family home.
,A picnic to honor Jackie Robinson led to a furor over alleged
racism at the State University of New York at Albany. Some 40
students insisted that the word "picnic" originally referred to
the racial lynchings of blacks. They were wrong. "Picnic" comes
from a 17th century French word for a potluck meal.
,But Affirmative Action Director Zaheer Mustafa put out a memo
asking student leaders to refrain from any use of the word
"picnic.","Whether the claims are true or not, the point is the
word offended," he said. In publicity for the event, the word
"picnic" was changed to "outing." This offended gay students, so
the event formerly known as picnic was publicized without a noun
describing what was going on.
,Gary Falkenham, a high-school student in Sheet Harbour, Nova
Scotia, may face criminal charges for wearing Dippity-Do hair gel
and Aqua Velva deodorant to school. Falkenham was suspended
twice for violating the school's strict anti-aroma policy. Then
he was placed under criminal investigation after a police
complaint by his odor-sensitive teacher, Tanya MacDonald. "If
her reaction was severe enough, you could actually even look at
an assault charge,",warned Constable Scott Manning.
,Falkenham said he's willing to give up his Dippity-Do but draws
the line on going without deodorant. "I don't know what to
think,",said Falkenham. "It's stupid."
,President Clinton issued an executive order banning
discrimination in the federal government against parents,
stepparents, foster parents, custodians of legal wards and people
who are trying to become parental figures by "actively seeking
legal custody or adoption."
,Clinton said his order would prohibit government employers from
"taking a mother or father off a career-advancing path out of a
belief that parents cannot meet requirements." Parents thus join
the long list of America's protected classes, which include
cross-dressers, addicts, people with AIDS, people with accents,
people from Appalachia (protected in Cincinnati),
Armenian-Americans (Pasadena, Calif.), transsexuals (several
cities) and people who are considered homely, too tall, too
short, too fat or too thin (several cities and the State of
Michigan).
,Remember Susan McClary, the feminist musicologist and MacArthur
Foundation "genius" who announced that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
was an expression of rape? Now another scholar, Rebecca Moore
Howard of Syracuse University, says that plagiarism is also a
kind of rape. She believes the current concept of plagiarism
relies on "gendered metaphors of authorship" that suggest
originality is masculine, while collaborative writing is
feminine. Don't nod off yet. There's more.
,She says writing guides, new and old, describe plagiarism as a
sexual disease and or a kind of rape. "Plagiarism ... incites
gender hysteria," she writes. "Let's leave sexual work out of
textual work."
,Good idea. And remember, for only $25,000 a year, you, too, can
go to college and study with people like this. It's okay to doze
off now.
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