If something like this had appeared just a few years ago—you know, before the dark shadow of The Great Stupid had covered the civilized world—it would have been regarded as a joke.
Springfield College in Massachusetts has campus language police guidelines that, among other acts of indoctrination and attempted Orwellian mind-control, discourages students from using the word “father.” I assume that synonyms are similarly taboo, like “dad,” “daddy,” “pop,” and “papa,” and “pappy,” as well as “grandfather,” “granddad,” and “pop-pop.” “Mother,” and other “gender specific” terms like brother, sister, “boyfriend,” “girlfriend,” “husband,” “wife,” “son,” and “daughter” are also considered wrong and harmful.
The list prohibitions are not new at Springfield, and Ethics Alarms has discussed similar Orwellian nonsense at other schools before. I mention this example now because any educational institution that indulges in this kind of Great Stupid woke indoctrination needs to be exposed, mocked, derided, shunned, and driven either to close or reform. This isn’t an educational institution’s job. Constraining communication, serving as propaganda agents for political movements and using its position and influence to advance GoodSpeak is unethical, and extremely so.
The responsible response of any parent being asked to contribute to tuition for Springfield or any school behaving similarly is “Over my dead body” or more concisely, “Bite me!” Students with any self-respect and concept of personal liberty should go out of their way to defy such “guidelines,” which are inherently coercive and thus not guidelines at all. FIRE should expand its already stuff agenda to admonish these crypto-Marxists.
This cultural and ethics pollution only persists because so many lazy, apathetic, principle-free and cowardly American let it. They need to be exposed, mocked, derided, and shunned as well. Their abdication of their civic and ethical responsibilities makes them the equivalent of litterers, spoiling the democratic environment for everyone, and enablers of creeping totalitarianism.
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Pointer: Campus Reform
Ethics Alarms 
But do they allow the word “master”?
I hearken back to undergraduate days, when the Drama Department was producing Niccolò Machiavelli La Mandragola. Of course, it was in English translation, so it was being marketed as The Mandrake. Ah, but you see, “man” is gender specific, so it should be “person.” Oops! “Son” is gender specific, too, so “Perprogeny.” Oh, no! “Drake” is also specifically masculine. “Perprogenyduck,” then. So that’s what a bunch of us called it.
Not being ornithologists, we were unaware that “duck” is itself sometimes specifically female. My apologies, fortysomething years after the fact, for not using the more appropriate “Perprogenywaterfowl.”
Just returned from my 50th college reunion. There was a “Black Lives Matter!” poster prominently displayed in one of the college’s notice posting cabinets. Outrageous. I paid all the fees for the reunion activities but refused to give a cent to the class gift. I consider anyone who gives the college a cent a useful idiot, plain and simple. But of course, almost all the classmates are Acela corridor lefties right down to their toes.
Don’t know where I read it or heard it, but a new definition of Lesbian is beginning. Apparently a lesbian is now defined as a “non-man sexually attracted to a non-man.” So aside from asking what is a woman we must define a non-man by first asking what is a man?
Oh, that’s easy. A man is “a piece of work.” If Hamlet says it, it must be true. (Well, except for the part where’s he’s lying.)