Don’t say ‘American’ at the University of New Hampshire

If you want to walk the true path to enlightenment and blissful, inoffensive peace at the University of New Hampshire, un-learn the word “American.”

At this institution of higher learning, that’s just one of many words you’ll be un-learning if you have the chauvinistic goal of reaching down to be everybody’s friend. You’ll also need to mind-wipe words like “homosexual,” “foreigners” and “fathering.” That is, except for those occasions when you must retrieve these kinds of Luddite cultural relics in order to chastise educate someone who’s been blithely using them.

“‘American,’ ‘illegal alien,’ ‘foreigners,’ ‘mothering,’ and ‘fathering’ are just a handful of words deemed ‘problematic’ by the University of New Hampshire’s Bias-Free Language Guide,” Campus Reform reported Tuesday.

“… The guide notes that ‘American’ is problematic because it ‘assumes the U.S. is the only country inside [the continents of North and South America].’ (The guide doesn’t address whether or not the terms ‘Canadians’ and ‘Mexicans’ should be abandoned in favor of ‘Residents of Canada’ and ‘Residents of Mexico,’ respectively.)”

Apply a similar rationale to the expurgation of all the other verboten old-world words on the list, and you get the idea.

UNH believes there’s great virtue in restraining one’s speech for the sake of other people’s emotions, warning that otherwise-enlightened students and faculty might be abusing their peers — by the unwitting commission of “micro-aggressions” — without even meaning to.

“A micro-aggression is a subtle, often automatic, stereotypical, and insensitive behavior or comment or assumption about a person’s identity, background, ethnicity, or disability,” the guide teaches. “Micro-aggressions may be intentional or non-intentional.”

If efforts to cleanse potentially offensive speech succeed at the institutional level, the world will become a far less interesting, if more numbly homogenous, place.

And in an age when no one of public prominence wishes to offend anyone, is there any wonder that Americans (sorry) in 2015 — whether they agree with the message or not — find it refreshing whenever a plainspoken political candidate says what’s on his mind?

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