The University of Michigan is spending $16,000 to implement what is being called an “Inclusive Language Campaign,” created to encourage students to stop and think about "the impact of their word choices on others.”
The university’s student life website reads,
"Please join the U-M’s new campus-wide initiative, the Inclusive Language Campaign (ILC). ILC aims to encourage the campus community to consider the impact of their word choices on others. The ILC raises awareness about the power of words, why certain language can be hurtful to others, and how to be more inclusive in how we speak and act as members of the Michigan campus community. The ILC is part of the campus-wide Expect Respect Campaign."
Words deemed offensive include “crazy,” “illegal alien,” “ghetto,” and “gypped” among others.
Derek Draplin, editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper “The Michigan Review,” told Fox News that while the school-sponsored program is meant to be educational, “the university shouldn’t be telling students what words they can and can’t use.”
“I think it’s absurd,” he said.
“It’s not so much regulatory. It’s meant to be a program that’s educating. But at the same time, the university shouldn’t be telling students what words they can and can’t use, even if it’s just meant to educate the student body.”
Draplin stands with the minority on campus who oppose the campaign.
Like many schools across the nation, University of Michigan seems to be confusing students' personal feelings with their personal freedoms, a huge misunderstanding that manifests in a so-called “right” to not be offended by others.
Watch the Fox News report below for more.