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In Australia , the use of the phrase by some politicians has set off a major political debate and appearance of the posters , but in that case, the focus is not in higher education. The campuses seeing the posters do not seem to fit any pattern. They include public and private institutions, two-year and four-year, institutions where white people make up a minority of students and institutions where they are the overwhelming majority.

Colleges have generally removed the posters as soon as they are discovered. That hasn't happened in these cases. So while college leaders have condemned the message behind the posters, they have not faced free speech challenges because those putting up the posters have violated college rules. The surge in these posters on campus has come at a challenging time for many institutions, as students respond to a divisive midterm election and recent killings of black people in Kentucky and Jewish people in Pittsburgh.

Baker, president of the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity, said via email that "on its face, the statement is both innocuous and obvious. It is OK to be white. It is to find sympathizers to the white nationalists' cause. Baker, assistant vice chancellor and vice president for equal opportunity services at the University of Houston System, added that "what is interesting is that a position is being inferred by some on the national stage that whites are a marginalized group and are being made to feel 'not OK' in their whiteness.

Although Baker said that the message behind the posters is protected free speech at a public college, he said that college officials should be paying attention to those spreading this message, and thinking about the implications of the message. For the last two years, the Anti-Defamation League has been documenting an increase in white supremacist activity including posters on college campuses. There were cases of white supremacist propaganda reported on campuses during the academic year, compared to in Be the first to know. Get our free daily newsletter. View the discussion thread. Newbury College provides early notice in closing announcement.

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We've sent an email with instructions to create a new password. There is nothing inherently intolerant, violent, hateful or inaccurate about it. Of course, if the outrageous motion put by the Senator to our Commonwealth Parliament was repeated in Cape Town, you can be sure Cyril Ramaphosa would be frothing at the mouth nearly as much as Penny Wong is now. Get a grip on yourself, Lefties! Can you actually hear how utterly imbecilic you sound right now?

Asked to confirm that racism targeted against whites is unacceptable, you cringe and cower at the thought of sounding even remotely racist. This is cultural Marxism at its simplest and most vile. Attack and criticise everything traditional, normal, conventional, accepted and true.

It is acerebral and counterintuitive, creating a minefield of offences so the most innocent of travellers cannot help but detonate a leftist sensibility with the most innocuous of conversations. The polite and naive among us are loathed to cause offence, so they sincerely attempt to navigate the ever-changing labyrinth of racial, sexual and religious faux pas. In so doing we concede inch by inch the society they seek to radically revolutionise until we have been defeated by our own niceness. There was nothing wrong with the wording of the motion on this occasion. That kind of strength and conviction would win elections, and starve the extremists of monopolising common sense.

The forensic analysis of language association is paralysing politics. We should be talking about the issue: Dave Pellowe blogs at PelloweTalk.