Politics

The University of California’s Insane Speech Police

TRIGGER WARNING

Administrators of the UC system think referring to America as a ‘melting pot’ is offensive—and want teachers to stop using that and many other innocuous phrases.

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Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast

Fifty years after the birth of the free speech movement at the University of California, Berkeley, officials across the UC system are encouraging faculty and students to purge mundane, potentially offensive words and phrases from their vocabularies.

Administrators want members of campus to avoid the use of racist

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