More and more universities are signing on to speech codes to make sure college is a safe place

where people can hear new ideas without ever hearing any new ideas. Students have to be able to learn,

how to have free and open discussions without discussing things in a free and open way.

In this manner we can educate our young to get to the truth without ever saying anything that would

offend anyone, like the truth. For instance, one visiting assistant professor at a Mercer

University Journalism School says we should stop using the word terrorism because it might imply

that an act of violence that just happened to be committed by a Muslim in the name of a law

in the cause of jihad was somehow connected to any particular religion. Using the T-word might

make M-word students feel they were no longer welcome to walk into the local Pizzeria say

and relax with friends by shouting A word A word and then blowing themselves to F word H word.

According to a handout from the University of California, you should be careful not to say to an

Asian student, why are you so quiet? This is tantamount demanding that the Asian student assimilate

to the dominant culture. You might have heard the Asian person's feelings and yet you would never

know it because he won't tell you because he's so damn quiet. It's almost impossible to figure out

what those people are thinking. They're just inscrutable. So be careful what you say to them.

Also, don't turn your back on them. A guidebook from the University of New Hampshire says students

should not describe someone as healthy but should instead say that he's a non-disabled individual.

In the same way you might refer to people who can see is non-blind and to tall people as non-short.

This way non-disabled individuals won't offend any gimpie midgets who accidentally bump into

them because they're not non-blind. The same guidebook also advises students to avoid quote

gendering a non-gender activity. For example, and this is a real example, they should not refer to

their parents as mother and father because that suggests one of them impregnated the other

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