"A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness"

Charlie Sykes has a great piece on The American Thinker, "A Quiet Defeat for Political Correctness."

He discusses UW-Madison's "Think Respect" program, a diversity campaign "designed to root out inappropriate speech and behaviors on campus."

In effect, students were encouraged to rat each other out.

"A bias incident is a threat or act of bigotry, harassment or intimidation - verbal, written or physical - that is personally directed against or targets a University of Wisconsin-Madison student because of that student's race, age, gender identity or expression, disability, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, or other actual or perceived characteristic."

"Students can report anything, from a hate crime to graffiti to verbal harassment."

...Even at one of the most political righteous campuses in the nation, it turned out that students did not want to rat one another out to the diversity police.

Charlie exposed Madison's "Think Respect" campaign as an idiotic effort.

Students don't need to report incidents. They talk through them. In short, they have the ability to deal with it.

Imagine that.

UW-Madison has reason to be embarrassed by its ridiculous and failed program. However, the university also can be proud that its students aren't the social Neanderthals they assumed them to be.

This may be of interest to Lefties in Wisconsin: Rush Limbaugh highlighted Charlie's article on his program today. Now 20 MILLION listeners know about "Think Respect" and the Left's loony campaign on the Madison campus.

Well done, Charlie.