Here's a real example of 'political correctness' policing

[certainot]

The Uni of Wisconsin administration is now being bombarded by republican/Trump base because the rw radio stations in that state and maybe around the country are reacting with white hot outrage! to this:

According to UW- Madison's website, "The Problem of Whiteness" is a new course taught by Damon Sajnani. It will be offered in the Spring 2017 semester.

The course description says "the class will explore how white people consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism and how it not only devastates communities of color, but also perpetuates the oppression of most white folks along the lines of class and gender."

The source http://www.nbc15.com/content/news/New-course-at-UW-Madison-focuses-on-the-problem-of-whiteness-407460615.html

I was using Snowtape to sample a few RW talk stations around the country and went to the Madison Limbaugh station WIBA. The local blowhard was calling for calls and emails (OUTRAGE!) to UW about this course.

WIBA is one of 5 Limbaugh and 2 Hannity stations that depend on Wisconsin Badger games and the association with UW to attract advertisers. So while they wave th badger flag over the station they get assholes like Ryan and Walker elected, deny global warming, sell voter suppression based on voter fraud lies and racist/immigrant hate, try to defund public education, block attempts to lower student debt, etc. In the few min I listened to I even heard a UW Badger promo, a few minutes from his rant to shut this outrageous! class down. The prof's going to get death threats and won't even know it starts with Badgers radio.

The Uni of Wisconsin is one of 88 unis that 257 limbaugh stations use to attract advertisers.

Walker and Ryan and Ron Johnson are there because liberals ignore talk radio, the biggest political correctness cop and censor-by-threat in the country.

Most of the election analysis is useless. Democrats (and trolls) are throwing blame around but they're studying fish without the water. Blaming symptoms and ignoring the cause.

The real question to ask when figuring out how all this could happen should be - why was Trump even close? How can a major american party not only deny global warming but get a guy like Trump into the white house? What kind of country is this? Why are all those rural states so red? Is this just a cycle?

Hillary lost votes because they weren’t sure they could trust her?

It's a load of crap and it's not going to get Dems the House and Senate in 2018 - a must. They're just announcing nukes development revival, including star wars.

Dems have to stop ignoring the radio.

Most of that alternate reality trump was repeating as fact that he was getting such great base support for was exactly the same stuff coming out of all the RW radio stations.

"I listened to thousands of hours of talk radio, and he (Trump) was getting reports from me,"

Will democrats spend the next two years pretending rw radio is a bygone technology and not worth factoring in?

[MichMary]

1. Frankly,

the title of the course IS offensive. Obviously meant to be provocative, so it shouldn't be surprising that this has happened. If it had been couched in more academic terms, no one would even have paid any attention.

[certainot]

2. the prof is finding out he probably should have used another title

but the only reason he'll be getting death threats and maybe have to pull the course is because of a few hundred dipshit racists excusing racism on 1200 radio stations - on radio stations licensed to serve in the public interest.

"the problem of whiteness"? no problem

[MichMary]

3. I don't see it as

"excusing racism;" I think it's more being offended by a course title that was intended to shock. Most people won't look past the course title to examine the content.

[certainot]

4. one of the general functions of rw radio has been to excuse racism

by the same mechanism BLM has been turned into a terrorist org

any course that examines white privilege in the usa, whatever it's called, will get the same treatment as soon as they spot it and it wouldn't take long for the think tanks to spot it or be informed of it and then send the talking points out to the radio stations

this is the mechanism they've been using for 30 years

[LanternWaste]

5. Ironically enough, the post-Napoleonic concept of the unification of German states

Ironically enough, the post-Napoleonic concept of the unification of German states was known throughout academic, political and lounge-chair circles as The German Problem, a phrase coined by the German, King Frederick William IV of Prussia.

If we apply your premise of offensiveness consistently, you must then believe King Frederick obviously meant to be provocative as well (though the historical record might take exception to your allegation). Though I imagine a false equivalency argument could be made in regards to applying the term to both the oppressed and the free, lacking both nuance and distinction.