‘Don’t Oppress Me With Your Commas

More crushing injustice on campus, this time at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies:
In a letter sent to colleagues in the department after the sit-in, [Professor] Rust said students in the demonstration described grammar and spelling corrections he made on their dissertation proposals as a form of “micro-aggression.” “I have attempted to be rather thorough on the papers and am particularly concerned that they do a good job with their bibliographies and citations, and these students apparently don’t feel that is appropriate,” Rust said in the letter.
You see, by highlighting spelling and punctuation errors, the professor is contributing to an “unsafe climate for students of colour.” Reminding students of the basic rules of English apparently helps to create “a hostile and toxic environment” in Professor Rust’s classroom. Such are the mental and emotional traumas of the modern grad school intellectual. These, remember, are people studying for master’s degrees and doctorates. Advanced learning….’
Via David Thompson

Bullshit + junk science + zealots:

‘Why walking within 30ft of a lit cigarette puts you at risk of dangerous passive smoking’
Yet these same zealots never mention the carcinogens in diesel fumes, when our streets are clogged with buses and trucks belching smoke….because it’s far, far easier to demonise and persecute individuals. It gives the little self-important wankers a sense of power and a purpose to their empty effing lives.