National Post: Price of free expression

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'There have been a number of cases on university campuses of late in which it appears that political correctness is trumping free expression --and even common sense.

The Carleton University Students' Association voted to drop giving money to a cystic fibrosis charity because the disease "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men." Under a barrage of criticism, the student council reinstated the charity as a beneficiary.

At Queen's University, in Kingston, Ont., the school administration hired six students whose jobs as "dialogue facilitators" involves intervening in conversations among students encourage discussion of such social justice issues as race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. (The program is now being subject to early review.)'