The “Words Matter Task Force” at the University of Michigan has compiled a list of dozens of offensive words and phrases — including “crazy,” “picnic,” and “dummy” — for elimination from the university vocabulary.
A group of teachers has rebelled against the decision by a Burbank California school district to ban a list of classic literary works tagged as “racist” by local thought police.
Christians in Scotland have warned that new hate speech legislation could enshrine “cancel culture” in law while rendering expression of biblical morality illegal.
A British university is paying students to spy on their classmates and report them for any language they deem to be a teeny bit offensive.
Slate has taken up the mantra of collective guilt, insisting in an article this week that “all white Australians” are somehow implicated in the recent Christchurch mosque shootings.
UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Gerard Batten has criticised London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for checking if comparing burqas to letterboxes is a ‘hate crime’.
The liberal thought police at the University of California-Merced have accused Campus Republicans and other conservatives of a “campaign of harassment and intimidation” including such crimes as hanging MAGA posters, saying “white lives matter, too,” carrying signs reading “Only 2 Genders,” and making “anti-Marxist arguments.”
One of the core beliefs of the movement for LGBT equality has always been that anti-gay bullying, especially of young people, must end. And yet, in recent days, thousands of online comments and threats from LGBT people have been directed against two young gay men who expressed their opinions about the current presidential race.
Many tech leaders were left “dazed and confused” after top Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel won a standing ovation at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last Thursday when he introduced himself as both “proud to be gay” and “proud to be Republican.”
Social media users are firing back at former President Bill Clinton, attacking him and his wife Hillary, a Democrat presidential candidate. In fact, Bill Clinton became the number one trending topic in the United States for a time on Twitter.
Glasgow Police have threatened social media users, ordering them to be “kind” and not “hurtful” unless they want to “receive a visit… this weekend”. https://twitter.com/GreaterGlasgPol/status/715867273261662208 Using the witty acronym ‘THINK’, and the hashtag #thinkbeforeyoupost, they cautioned people to consider whether something is
LGBT activists are assailing Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski for affirming traditional marriage after a video surfaced online Tuesday showing him objecting to same-sex marriage and transgender people being allowed to use restrooms designated for the opposite sex. Nowakowski, a
