CBC Commentary On Cancellation Of Cystic Fibrosis Annual Fund Raiser

Article here. Excerpt:

'Most readers will already have choked on the revelation that the worthies on the student union wanted to give up on cystic fibrosis, after nearly a quarter of a century of Carleton's supporting the charity, because - in homage to that stern god, Diversity - the disease wasn't "inclusive" enough.

The telling phrase in the motion, a monument to the caring and scrupulous intellect of that most delicate of mechanisms - the politically correct sensibility - was that "cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men."

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What is finally interesting about the episode is that it's almost a casebook example of how political correctness, the attempt to purge every thought, word, or deed of its ideological impurities, almost always ends up like the fabled serpent that devours its own tail. Of committing greater sins than the ones it seeks to proscribe.

In the effort to be purer than the pure, the poor innocents at Carleton demean a fine charity, offend its many victims and embarrass their university. In pursuit of the ignis fatuus, the foolish fire, of diversity at all costs, they wander into a great wilderness of bad taste and offence. Much like their equally risible brethren at Queen's, with their grotesque innovation of "conversation monitors" or "dialogue facilitators" whose goal is to purge the campus of every trace, every scintilla of the dreaded "homophobic, sexist, racist" trifecta.'