by Kerry Dougherty

Earlier this year “Morning Joe” host, Joe Scarborough, said his daughter, a student at the University of Virginia, is afraid to raise her hand in class. “If she says anything polticallly incorrect she knows she’ll immediately be cancelled,” he said.

Great.

It happens everywhere. Colleges and universities have become intolerant left-wing indoctrination centers.Several days ago, I stumbled upon this essay on Facebook. The author gave me permission to reprint it, but asked to remain anonymous. I suspect it’s because of some of the backlash he got on his post.

He attended another Virginia state university.

The Dangerous Redefinition of Words And The Legacy of Charlie Kirk

It’s time we stop trying to silence each other and listen. When I was in college, I watched newly graduated professors change the definition of words to mean something completely different from their etymological roots, to suit an ideological agenda.

When asked to define “racism” in a mandated sociology class, I replied something along the lines of – “prejudice of another based on the other’s ethnic background or race” – my sociology professor, a freshly minted Ph.D from UT, told me I was wrong – that it actually is “the oppression of one group by a class with more power” or some other postmodern redefinition, conveniently none of which had to do with race, the literal root word of “racism”.

When I asked “If a black person who owns a restaurant refuses service to a white person simply because they are white, is that racism?” I was told “No”, because “black people are systemically or structurally oppressed” or something along these lines.

Regardless of the truth of black people being an oppressed class or not, changing the definition of “racism” to not include “race” meant something was terribly wrong here. If I didn’t go along with the redefinition of the word, I was academically penalized. I got a C on the exam where this was later asked.

Guess why? Continue reading.