AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: College Student Aces Final By Just Answering ‘Racism!’ To Every Question.
According to sources, local English major Charlie Miller was able to ace her final exam by simply writing in the word “racism!” for every answer.
“Yeah, I completely forgot to study last night so I figured I would try it,” she said. “90% of my lectures this year were just hour-long sessions of my professor saying ‘racism’ over and over again in different inflections, so I figured my chances were pretty good if I made that the answer to all the test questions.”
The Skidmore College English professor who delivered the passing grade explained her rationale. “Charlie’s test answers weren’t technically correct, but they spoke to a deeper truth: everything is racist. At Skidmore College, creating leftist radicals who can find racism everywhere and help us burn down Western Civilization is much more important than educating people. For that reason, we decided to give her a passing grade!”
ROGER KIMBALL: At Columbia… that’s all, folx!
Undoubtedly the best moment in the testimony of Minouche Shafik, the President Columbia University, before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last week was elicited by Representative Jim Banks. Why, he wanted to know, was the word “folks” spelled “folx” throughout an official guidebook for the School of Social Work?
Shafik coyly suggested that perhaps the authors did not know how to spell, which might well be the case. But you cannot watch her squirming response without feeling the hot, sticky, and slightly nauseating air of disingenuousness wash over the proceeding.
“Folx,” as Shafik must be aware, is just the latest instance of weaponized orthography disseminated by the academic left. Think “Latinx” and you are on the right track. “Folx” is the certified preferred term for the LGBTQWERTY+ “community,” something Shafik, the leader of an Ivy League outpost of “wokeness,” must surely know.
And she very, very likely does:
The page has since been deleted, but here's an archive from December 2023 from @Columbia University:
"For Latinx Folx"
Double whammy!https://t.co/zfsNq9gZPR pic.twitter.com/Ozbvkik62v
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) April 17, 2024
Hey, you know who else has used “folx?”
h/t Ed Driscoll