title: PC GONE WILD: PROFESSORS THREATEN STUDENTS WITH BAD GRADES FOR SAYING “Illegal Alien”…Expected To Defer To Non-White Students
text: The left has waged a full scale war against our values and the greatness of America. Unless we are willing to teach our children and grandchildren to stand up and fight back against liberal academia, we will surely lose all that is unique and great about our country Multiple professors at Washington State University have explicitly told students their grades will suffer if they use terms such as  illegal alien,   male,  and  female,  or if they fail to  defer  to non-white students.According to the syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss   Women & Popular Culture  class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers  oppressive and hateful language. The punishment for repeatedly using the banned words, Breikss warns, includes  but [is] not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and  in extreme cases  failure for the semester. Breikss is not the only WSU faculty member implementing such policies.Much like in Selena Breikss s classroom, students taking Professor Rebecca Fowler s   Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies  course will see their grades suffer if they use the term  illegal alien  in their assigned writing.According to her syllabus, students will lose one point every time they use the words  illegal alien  or  illegals  rather than the preferred terms of  undocumented  migrants/immigrants/persons.  Throughout the course, Fowler says, students will  come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions. In an email to Campus Reform, Fowler complained that  the term  illegal alien  has permeated dominant discourses that circulate in the news to the extent that our society has come to associate ALL unauthorized border crossings with those immigrants originating from countries south of our border (and not with Asian immigrants, for example, many of whom are also in the country without legal documents and make up a considerable portion of undocumented immigrants living in the country). The socio-legal production of migrant illegality works to systematically dehumanize and exploit these brown bodies for their labor,  Fowler continued.White students in Professor John Streamas s   Introduction to Multicultural Literature  class, are expected to  defer  to non-white students, among other community guidelines, if they want  to do well in this class. In the guidelines in his syllabus, Streamas elaborates that he requires students to  reflect  on their grasp of history and social relations  by respecting shy and quiet classmates and by deferring to the experiences of people of color. Streamas who previously generated controversy by calling a student a   white shitbag  and declared that WSU should stand for  White Supremacist University also demands that students  understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice. Later in the syllabus, Streamas goes even further and accuses Glenn Beck of being an  insensitive white. Several other WSU professors require their students to  acknowledge that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist  or that   we do not live in a post-racial world. Ari Cohn, a lawyer with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told Campus Reformhe considers such requirements to be contradictory, even given the sensitive nature of the courses. It is notable that one of the syllabus provisions warns:  The subject material of this class is sensitive and controversial. Strive to keep an open mind.  How are students supposed to approach these sensitive and controversial materials at all, let alone to keep an open mind, if they have to fear that a misconstrued statement, or one that unreasonably offends a classmate will lead to a grade reduction or even removal from class? Neither Breikss nor Streamas replied to Campus Reform s request for comment.Via: Campus Reform