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Is this college or kindergarten?

Syracuse University’s “STOP Bias” effort touts a list of examples of bias-related incidents that can be reported through its online “Bias Incident Reporting Form.” Some examples of bias incidents, according to the university’s website, include:

Telling jokes based on a stereotype

Name-calling

Stereotyping

Avoiding or excluding others

Posting or commenting on social media related to someone’s identity in a bias matter

Imitating someone with any kind of disability

Displaying a sign that is color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys

This sounds like a poster that might hang in my third-grade daughter’s classroom.

As Katherine Timpf in National Review points out:

Sorry, but I really do feel like some things are too small to warrant this kind of attention. For example: Is using the color “pink” on a sign to designate “girls” and blue to designate “boys” stereotypical? Sure. But does it really meet the qualifications of a “bias incident,” which, according to the campaign’s own description, is “abhorrent and intolerable”? Only if you’re a crazy person.

… Here’s another example: “Avoiding or excluding others” is on the list. Based on this, your boyfriend having a night out with his bros and not inviting you would qualify as a “bias incident,” because he’d be discriminating against you based on your gender. What’s more, because of the suggestion that you report these incidents not only if you have “experienced” one, but also if you have “witnessed” one, even overhearing a girl in the hallway say that her boyfriend is having a dude’s night would compel you to immediately run to your computer and file a report in the name of social justice.

Indeed, the university’s website points out (you could almost hear violins playing in the background as you read it): “… bias-related incidents do require the active participation of a community committed to fundamental human dignity and equality to successfully address them.”

And then we wonder why millennials have earned the nickname “precious snowflakes”? Look no further than these paternal tattle-telling systems put in place at this campus and others across the nation.

Meanwhile, the phalanx of diversity and inclusion gurus that colleges have hired use these bias reports to justify their exorbitant salaries and advance the “America is racist” narrative.

Ultimately this problem was solved 2,000 years ago when someone once said: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Just put that on a campus poster and let these young adults get on to the business of gaining the skills and knowledge necessary for a productive career in the real world.

MORE: Bias Response Teams illustrate just how far gone universities really are

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