Ban Christmas decorations and hold an “ugly sweater competition?” It made the list.
Ban a pro-life speaker but host another transgender speaker who thinks God is a black lesbian? Check.
Assign a book with “graphic sexual content” for English? Yep.
Jason Mattera of the Young America’s Foundation listed these, along with seven others, in his article, PC Campus: Academia’s Top 10 Abuses of 2008:
6. You can’t pray here! The First Amendment, is it a bestowed right given from above and protected by our government or a meaningless, antiquated concept to be disposed of? If you’re the folks at the College of Alameda in California, you’d pick the latter. How else do you explain their threatening to expel a student who prayed on campus? It all started when a student, Kandy Kyriacou, visited her professor to give her a Christmas gift. But when Kandy saw that her teacher was ill, she offered to pray for her. The professor agreed. That’s when Derek Piazza, another professor, walked in and freaked out that a prayer—gasp, a prayer—was occurring on college premises. “You can’t be doing that in here,” Piazza purportedly barked. Kandy received a retroactive “intent to suspend” letter from the administration, claiming that she was guilty of “disruptive or insulting behavior” and “persistent abuse of” college employees. Further infractions would result in expulsion, the letter read.
There are some great examples of social Marxism, also known as political correctness, on this list.
