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In todays academy, truth is an invention. Expecting people to show up on time is racist. Censorship is good. Silencing opposing viewpoints imperative. Violence to enforce safety is natural.

For the last 25 years, under the guise of political correctness, weve been watching the inexplicable flow into our culture. The idiotic demands of political correctness in the 1980s, ironically relying on the decency of the American people for their acquiescence, was just the prep course, an amuse bouche before the main course of creating social chaos and destruction.

It sounds dramatic, and it is, and its also the only way the left maintains power brainwashing people into believing that social norms must be destroyed in order to create a more perfect society. From the ashes would emerge the great collective phoenix.

Just ask the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Cuba and Venezuela how well that works out.

Last year, we watched political correctness on campus jump with abandon into its perfected state of fascism. Within a year, we moved from weeping students demanding safe spaces to direct, organized violence to stop speakers who do not pay allegiance to the lefts status quo.

Perhaps with the ascent of Donald Trump, it was the shock of realizing the American people werent Venezuelan and were not inclined to commit mass suicide.

Consider some recent revelations, the natural trajectory from the crowd a generation ago that was demanding manhole covers be called personhole covers, and making mailman, fireman, and policeman all verboten. We assented, and a thousand steps later:

Reporting about Pomona College: Black students condemn truth as an invention of white people, want conservatives expelled. News about Clemson University: Public universitys diversity training: Expecting people to show up on time is racist. A headline about the work of an ungraduated researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison: Teachers should allow Ebonics because English grammar is too hard for minorities to learn.

This activism at the academy is not only classically fascist, it destroys the future for the young people awash in its conditioning. Imagine, after all: What business, what culture, could survive a generation that thinks expecting people to be on time is racist?

Attempting to enact Orwellian rules at college is just one pastime of students. Free Beacon comments on the direct and often violent efforts to stop nonliberal speakers from being heard:

With Notre Dame students feeling unsafe at the prospect of Vice President Mike Pence speaking at their commencement, the riots at Berkeley caused by the presence of professional troll Milo Yiannopoulos on campus, and the explosive protest in March against author Charles Murray at Middlebury College that resulted in the assault of a professor, the war on campuses against freedom of expression and hearing opposing views is pervasive and troubling.

To say the least.

Last week, the University of California at Davis Student Senate voted to remove the American flag from Student Senate meetings. If you want it to be visible, you have to file a petition in an effort to convince others.

Todd Starnes reported one UC Davis students support of the action on her Facebook post: Why do you feel that advocating for the U.S. flag that represents a history of genocide, slavery, and imperialism is more important than stuff that actually matters like I dont know, the violence against our LGBTQ Brown and Black students, rising tuition, resources for our students without homes, she fumed. What a waste of time.

The odds are quite high that the students at this public university are relying on a variety of federal, state and alumni loans to finance their rage against the machine. Perhaps some of the assistance should be reconsidered when a classic education is taking a backseat to social justice warrioring. On Monday, I appeared on Tucker Carlsons Fox News program discussing this after the student leaders canceled a planned appearance on the program. Apparently, their college bubble was threatened.

Yet, college was supposed to be the bubble destroyer. Leaving home and all familiar, thrown into a new, challenging world. You are to be prepared for a world bigger than you, and certainly different from you.

Instead, we are infantilizing students, appeasing and placating them, condemning them to a life uncertain. Who needs time management? The ability to work and live with people unlike yourself? Why not resort to violence because youre upset or angry or irritated?

It has been a perfect storm creating this disaster, one of which is the lowering of expectations of students in general because of the rot of political correctness. Our public schools have failed so miserably, universities now cant hold applicants to any sort of standard.

Consider the frighteningly absurd decision by Stanford, as The Wall Street Journal reported: Every year, Stanford asks its applicants an excellent question: What matters to you, and why? Ziad Ahmed of Princeton, N.J., summed up his answer in three words. His essay consisted of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter repeated 100 times. He got in.

We can answer Stanfords question quite simply: What matters to us are college degrees that still mean something; graduates who are ready to contribute to society and are ready to pursue dreams in business, life and society. What matters to us is the future. What matters is us winning this existential fight for students and a nation being abandoned by the liberals running our universities.

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RIPON - Jake Jacobs, a speaker, writer and historian, will present Political Correctness: Stifling Freedoms in Schools and Society at Ripon College from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the campus. Free pizza and beverages will be provided.

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Jacobs teaches history at Lourdes Academy in Oshkosh. He is the president and founder of Liberty Proclamation Education and has degrees in American history and biblical and Judeo-Christian studies from Arizona State University, Ashland Theological Seminary and North-West University. He has spent more than 28 years in public and private high schools as well as at the college level, teaching his passion for our Constitutional Republic under God, all the while stressing historical correctness, in the face of politically correct intimidation by the academic establishment.

As a public high school teacher, he publicly defended Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Fox & Friends. He is a popular speaker for Young Americans for Freedom, conservative radio, and Tea Party, civic and church events.

For more information about Ripon College, visit ripon.edu.

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TheUniversity of California Los Angeles (UCLA) administration is allegedly trying to sack an outspoken conservative professor for his resistance to political correctness.

Keith Fink, a UCLA professor who teaches classes on entertainment law and free speech, fears the university could an upcoming professional review to helppush him out of the institution.

Fink has previouslycaused waves on campus by refusing to embrace trigger warnings and safe spaces, prompting the universityto block some students from taking his classes.

University policy dictates that every lecturer must undergo a periodic Excellence Review to judge their performance.

If a panel of senior faculty members decide the professor doesnt meet the excellence standards, they are forced to leave the position.

Fink told The Daily Wirethat such reviews are normally just a formality, but the university administration is throwing obstacles in his path.

According to the emails acquiredby the Wire,the officials have reprimanded Fink for incorrect admin in soliciting statements from students to support his teaching a charge Fink denies.

He also claims the department ignoring his nominees for students to contact and using a different list, purposefully skipping one which praised him particularly strongly. Only when he noticed that the document was missing, the department fixed the allegedly accidental mistake.

The student who wrote the letter toldthe site:No reasonable person would believe that my letter was accidentally omitted from the dossier, because presumably it flatly contradicts the departments narrative, the student said.

They asked me what my honest opinion was, and I spent hours articulating how Professor Fink is an excellent instructor and explaining the impact he has had on my life.It infuriates me to hear they attempted to (by accident or by malice) discard my opinion simply because it contradicts their mission.

TheUCLA administration also solicited a number of negative letters from students, which the professor believes are exaggerated.

One allegedly accuses him of using racial slurs without the context that he was teaching a class on the First Amendment and whether they were protected.

Fink told the Wire:The way the system is, this is the easiest way for them to get rid of me. This is the perfect storm.

Heat Street has contacted UCLA for a comment, but has yet to receive a response.

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UCLA Conservative Professor May Be Fired From Job For Refusing to Cave In to Political Correctness - Heat Street

By Daibhe BakerSpecial to the Star-Banner

Fullness of Truth was the theme of a weekend conference held by Catholic Evangelization Ministries during Lent in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 4-5. The focus of its seminars was to coordinate efforts to reverse the swing of the pendulum of the political correctness movement, which has undermined much of the conservative ideology that formed the core of our parents generations moral value system; and to reestablish the practice of modeling the example of the Holy Family unit in our homes and communities on a daily basis.

The family unit is the basic DNA that enables human society to establish ethical and moral standards in our culture, and has facilitated the logical development of Christian civilization on this blue water world, circling a modest star, two-thirds of the way out along a spiral arm of this rather average galaxy we call the Milky Way.

From the mists of antiquity, our civilization has emerged from its humble origins, through a continuing series of challenges from sinister foreign elements that have called upon rough men to stand watch through the night and to defend the borders of our ancestors historic lands like when a few good men stood in the pass at Thermopylae, four centuries before the Magi visited the little town of Bethlehem.

When Ive been asked my religion (for the record), when entering critical care units at hospitals, or having applied for visas to countries that require such information, my typical answer has always been, Greco-Roman Catholic. Which, if examined closely, would likely cause your priest to brand me as a heretic who, during the Middle Ages, would have been burned at the stake. But, during the past 50-plus years that I have been replying thus, my definition has so far passed the muster of all those inquiring minds who asked.

I believe the origins of the early Christian Church were created as a result of St. Paul incorporating the teachings of Jesus into the pre-existing logic-train of philosophical beliefs that were held by congregations in those cities in the Roman Empire whose populations were ethnically Greek, i.e. most of the New Testament, after its first four Gospels.

The unique element of this Christian life-path model was that women were not considered, nor treated, as chattel, as is common among so many foreign credos. Rrather, our Christian family unit is a partnership of co-equals, each sharing a common vision, but with separate spheres of personal responsibility in the union.

Man (an alpha male) is the provider of sustenance for and the protector of woman and child, even to the extent it may require him to sacrifice his own life, as a last resort.

Woman, on the other hand, gives birth to and nurtures Child thru infancy and beyond, creating the next generation of life as we know it, and ensuring the future continuation of our culture, our Christian civilization and our God (consisting of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit).

My observation of the current Political Correctness movement, in both America and Europe, indicates it is focused upon implementing constraints and regulations intended to domesticate and tame those aggressive instincts and tendencies that have fostered the natural, God-given behavior pattern of alpha males, since mortals first walked, talked and made love with gods on Mount Olympus.

Further, I believe the recent emphasis by the Political Correctness movement, celebrating and encouraging acceptance of the moral standards of the LGBTQ community, is clearly accelerating the decline of Americas historical Olde Time Religious value system. And it is effectively neutering our cultures supply of alpha males by reducing our young men to the status of relatively impotent, beta males, more commonly referred to as metrosexuals in politically correct social circles in this country and Europe.

[Refer to the CBS-TV series Blue Bloods.] The family dinnertime experience of my youth (Im 78), held at a fixed time each work day, has become lost, as extracurricular activities, sports and societal expectations for women to pursue heretofore male career paths have replaced the professional homemaker, which our mothers considered their first calling.

Our mothers taught their daughters homemaking skills. For example, when fathers came home from work each day no squalling babies, no Hi, Daddy greetings from pre-adolescents and no short-shorts, pedal pushers, jeans nor housecleaning attire was worn. If possible, fathers first activity was either to shower and change into clean clothes, or at least freshen up. Mother would always wear either a dress or skirt and make-up, and would meet father in the parlor or den, and the next 15 to 20 minutes was their time to review their day privately. Only after this parents conference would the whole family unit sit down at a formally set table, say grace and discuss mutual topics of interest while eating.

That was the way it was. (An olde ethnic wives tale said, If Stanislaw has something to come home to, he wont sit in a bar and drink.) And the Fullness of Truth seminars reminded us, Olde Time Religion taught us that families that pray together and eat together, stay together.

Daibhe Baker is a retired engineer and serves on the Star-Banners Readers Advisory Board. He lives in Dunnellon.

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Many US voters are hoping that the election of Donald Trump as President will finally see their opinion being represented in politics. The Hungarian government has also hailed this new era. The fact that there is a new tone in international relations since his arrival can be seen in security policy aspects as well. Many of the disagreements are caused by the term Political Correctness a phrase that threatens diplomatic relations with a rupture test. What does someone who not only taught but also lived in international relations and diplomacy think about these dangerous trends? Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege talks to The Budapest Times about the phenomenon of Political Correctness, the new challenges in diplomacy, multilateralism and why the European Union is more important than ever.

Dr. Bettzuege, during your diplomatic and academic career you have dealt intensively with trans-Atlantic relations. What do you think about Trumps policy in relation to Europe and the future of NATO?

The early weeks of his office were not very promising for Europe and NATO, to express myself diplomatically. Trump is striving for no less than to shake and delete the world order as we have known it since the end of World War II. The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, lamented in his letter to the member states why 70 years of American foreign policy and rational foreign policy, I would add, have to be questioned. This is just as regrettable as dangerous. This is the reason why the EU invited the American President to one of the EU summits: to understand his motivations. Nobody should be fooled into believing that a weakened European Union, or even its fall, would result in more sovereignty for its member states. The consequence would much more be a fatal dependence on the three main actors of world politics: the USA, China and Russia. This cannot be the best interest of the Europeans. In politics its always easier to destroy something tried and tested than think about a better new method. This is why all over in Europe we are experiencing with a lot of worry that the values and political structures, which have been successfully defining our politics in Europe and over the Atlantic, are questioned without a plan or perspective.

What do you suggest the Europeans do in this situation?

In this era of emerging mistrust we should keep our cool and rely on our own strength. Isnt Europe the destination for millions of people, are they not all dreaming about the European dream? Why is that so? Because Europe is a more peaceful and friendlier continent. I am surrounded by young students and I know how perfectly well the young people know what they have in Europe. This is why at the Brexit referendum the majority of young people voted for staying in Europe. They are looking at Europe not only as the place where they are safe but also the place of their values, rules and traditions; they already have a European identity. Mrs Merkel said that Europeans have their fate in their own hand. This is true. We should make a virtue out of necessity and confront all those, within Europe too, who think that the time has come when they can reject human rights, the division of powers, the rule of law and the freedom of media. At the meeting of the EU government leaders in Malta in February the call of unity was timely and the realisation that Europe (finally) has to clarify its role in the world for itself. Since its still a fact that cannot be replaced by any alternative facts: Europe will only house 4% of the global population by the middle of our century. At the beginning of the 19th century this ratio was almost 20%. If someone believes that a looser union of European national states could be successful in mastering the challenges of the 21st century, he will be sourly disappointed and has to take the political responsibility for a depending, dependent Europe. Whoever believes today that multilateralism has served its time and advocates for bilateral national relations instead is behaving in a politically short-sighted way, which is irresponsible as well. Even George W. Bush learned the lesson when during his second term he had to return from the unilateral practices (the war in Iraq, for example) to the multilateral solutions. Trump will learn similar lessons, I am sure about that. In the meantime the US Vice-President, Mike Pence, and the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, both expressed their strong interest in a united Europe, which is a ray of light.

You have been the German representative in NATO for five years. How do you see NATOs future? Also in relation to Donald Trump, who described NATO as obsolete during his campaign.

The introduction of the North Atlantic Treaty laid the foundations of the world order after World War II. Its clearly said in the treaty that this community is based on the principles of democracy, freedom of the individual and the rule of law. Furthermore, the Transatlantic Pledge was made to unite efforts for the preservation of peace and security. Taking into consideration the threats of Islamic terror, violations of international law in the South China Sea and Putins aggressive policy with his neighbours, we can see that the existence of NATO is vital. However, the point that Trump and many before him criticise is right: Europeans are not doing enough for the strengthening of relations. Its a scandal that has only been realised, even by Mrs. Merkel that the defence efforts have to be increased significantly, namely to the agreed target of 2% of gross domestic product. In the meantime Trump agreed to participate at the NATO summit on 26-27 May in Taormina, Italy, and he has not repeated the word obsolete about NATO ever since; he rather talked about his strong support. Furthermore, he will be joining the G20 meeting in Hamburg in July, where he has to explain what he means by global governance.

Many people celebrate Trump because of his promise to put an end to Political Correctness. What does the term mean to you, as a diplomat and political scientist?

Trump said in his campaign: I refuse to be politically correct. Actually the term means to use a non-discriminative language. However, the concept is more than that. Political Correctness is for me first of all: predictability. Its also trusting that the agreed commitments will be fulfilled, that contracts such as the North American Free Trade Agreement will not be updated as a surprise, that international law will not be questioned or compromised and the global partners will not be discredited or whole countries will not be made subject to general condemnation. Political Correctness is measured by how we treat people who think differently; this is why American courts turned down Trumps immigration decree for a reason. I am sure that its against the constitution. It proves that healthy democracy rules in the USA that this happened and that thousands went on the streets to protest against it. Even a lot of Republicans were looking at the White House with horror. This is why I would not bet on Trump serving his entire term.

Did you notice any changes in international diplomacy after Trump entered office?

The most important change for me is that most Europeans, except for a few exceptions, have seen Trumps questioning of the present world order as a wake-up call and know that unity is needed more than ever now. I also see a return to the values that constitute our democracy and a readiness to fight for this more vigorously than before.

You have represented Germany in some European countries as an ambassador. I suppose that the work of diplomats is not really simple in restless times such as today. What would be your biggest challenge if you were the German ambassador in the USA right now?

You should not overestimate the role of ambassadors. They are only representing the policies made at home. This is easier for them when they can base their arguments on European unity in their host countries. What would I do? Inform people, lead discussions, organise discussion events all over the country, present at universities, organise business meetings, engage myself with the public, encourage parliamentary meetings, involve foundations, non-governmental organisations and think-tanks so I would do everything that diplomacy can do, including using the social media. In diplomacy you have to convince other people. The reference of 70 good transatlantic years should be helpful in that. As a German ambassador I would not even pay attention to rejecting Trumps adventurous accusations according to which Germany is just using the EU as a tool for reaching its own interests. Germany, in my opinion, is by far the largest net contributor to the income of this community, on the other hand the country has called back a number of representatives from the European Parliament in order that they are not overrepresented when compared to France or Great Britain. Trump would never think that the reason why we are doing this is that we do not want a German Europe, but we want to become a European Germany. I would also vehemently oppose Trumps allegations that Germany is trying to manipulate the currencies. Germany is criticising the expansive policy of the European Central Bank, which is weakening the euro, as strongly as any country. The ECB is supranational and independent anyway. Furthermore, I would contradict his reproaches that we do not buy American cars. Are all the Fords and Opels that you see people driving here not American cars? I would also point out to him that the Germany automotive industry is securing 33,000 jobs in the USA. As for his mockery of the reception of refugees, this is an act of solidarity with politically persecuted and war refugees. Mrs. Merkel is cleaning the mess that irresponsible US policy with Iraq and Syria caused. Finally I would quote President of Germany Joachim Gauck, who was forced to live most of his life in a dictatorship and this is why he said: Freedom and democracy are the decisive political values of our times.

Are American diplomats having a hard time right now all around the world?

Yes, its bad for them. The fact that more than a thousand ambassadors wrote to the State Department after the regulations about entering the country were published, says a lot. This is a unique event in US history.

From this summer semester you will be teaching the Diplomatic case studies seminar at the Central European University (CEU). The university has been a government target in the campaign against the US billionaire and philanthropist with Hungarian origins, George Soros. What do you think about the possible threat by Fidesz to dissolve the CEU?

I can only refer to the open letter written by Michael Ignatieff, the CEU rector, pointing out that the CEU has proven itself with a quarter of a century of academic education. CEU is a Hungarian institution that is recognised internationally, not only in Central Europe. It accommodates students from 117 countries, 20% of whom are Hungarians. CEU employs around 700 Hungarian citizens and spends almost HUF 10 billion in Hungary each year. It can refer to 14,000 graduates all over the world. The rector pointed out in his open letter that CEU was able to work together with every Hungarian government in a positive way in the past 25 years. I cannot imagine that any Hungarian government would like to change this tradition.

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Political correctness is measured by how we treat people who think ... - Budapest Times

Mainstream journals increasingly publish studies that reveal how misleading assumptions about the sexes bias the framing of hypotheses, research design and interpretation of findingsSome of the errors and traps we identified included human neuroimaging studies with small sample sizes, and the common snapshot approach, which interprets neural associations with sex as a matter of timeless and universal male and female essencesWe also expressed concern about studies that draw on and reinforce stereotypes.

But misplaced fears of the effects of feminism on science potentially threaten this. [In 2016], a number of news articles reported that scientists had been ignoring medically critical sex differences in the brain, for fear of being labelled sexist.

[We believe that]many variables correlate with biological sex, including things such as body weight and muscle mass, as well as human-specific variables such as reinforced skills and experiences. If these arent taken into account, differences between the sexes may be inappropriately chalked up to the effects of biological sex. And the results of this misattribution can be harmful for women and men.

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Greed, Speech Suppression And Political Correctness: Another Day In American Higher Education Forbes America's universities are certainly in the news a lot these days. In today's Wall Street Journal, within the first section I found four large stories: Colleges Seek More from Deals, The Silencing of Heather Mac Donald, Witness to the Star Chamber ... Shutting down campus speech is a great way to lose an argument ...Los Angeles Times Angry mob shuts down Blue Lives Matter speech at Claremont McKenna CollegeThe College Fix A message from President Chodosh on Heather Mac Donald's Athenaeum talkcmc.edu all 41 news articles »

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The Left, Political Correctness and Cult Behavior FrontPage Magazine Michael Savage famously said that liberalism is a mental disorder. I think it is more precise to say that liberalism is a cult. Isolation, threats and routine shaming all serve to silence cult members who cross them, exactly as happens with political ...

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The Left, Political Correctness and Cult Behavior - FrontPage Magazine

While welcoming a conference on the connections between universities and slavery, history professor and Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust apologized for her university's contacts with the horrible institution of American slavery. According to the New York Times, President Faust observed that "only by coming to terms with history can we free ourselves to create a more just world." The conference discussed reparations, and ways to abolish any historical recognition of Harvard's 18th and 19th century faculty and benefactors who practiced or defended the enslavement of their fellow human beings.

Strangely, despite Harvard's focus on global citizenship rather than the American variety, President Faust never condemned Harvard's substantial ties with Saudi Arabia, a nation-state that only came around to abolishing slavery in 1962. Should not Harvard come to terms with this history?

Nor did President Faust mention China, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco or any of the 26 nation-states representing most of humanity that abolished slavery after for some long after 300,000 Union soldiers died in large part to end American slavery.

Nor did President Faust apologize for certain 20th century Harvard faculty who defended Communist regimes that enslaved hundreds of millions. According to The Black Book of Communism, published by Harvard University Press, Marxist governments killed over 80 million people in the 20th century. North Korea and Cuba add to the death toll well into the 21st century. State ownership of the means of employment, including the news media, remains a form of systematic exploitation that only Bernie Sanders, and some professors, have the mendacity to defend.

How can university-based intellectuals condemn exploitation in traditional regimes while ignoring it in "progressive" ones? Should not Harvard consider reparations for those still living victims of Marxism? Do not they merit a museum, a conference or at least a debate?

Sadly, colleges don't do debates. In my 40 years in academia, I can recall only four. As Peter Beinart reports in The Atlantic, the same week as the Harvard conference student activists at Middlebury College violently disrupted a talk by conservative American Enterprise Insitute scholar Charles Murray. His interlocutor, left-leaning political science professor Allison Stanger, landed in the hospital after escorting Mr. Murray away from a hostile mob, some wearing ski masks.

If masked Trump supporters committed this kind of violence at a rally, the news media and academia would be all over it, and rightly so. Yet save for two local affiliates in Vermont and Boston, National Public Radio, which features regular accounts portraying the Trump movement as fascist, failed to cover events at elite Middlebury, where leftist blackshirts did everything short of book burning to stop the free exchange of ideas.

What gives? Historically, as political scientist Stanley Rothman showed in "The End of the Experiment" (meaning the American Experiment), after the 1960s, New Left activists worked their way up in cultural, media and educational institutions, gaining power and developing a politically correct etiquette. Unlike prior elites, many had little support for American institutions and only conditional backing for constitutional values like free speech. Consider, for example, the attempts at 90 mainly elite colleges and universities to disinvite (mainly conservative) speakers.

Whatever their good intentions, in the same way that overwhelmingly white institutions often ignore minority concerns, the overwhelmingly left leanings of the media, Hollywood and academia make it natural for members of those cultural institutions to exaggerate threats to freedom from the right, and ignore or even defend those from the left.

Though largely unconscious, this political correctness undermines the credibility of elite institutions to judge fitness for public office, something an essentially unfit showman, Donald Trump, exploited all the way to the White House.

A Baltimore native, Robert Maranto (rmaranto@uark.edu) is the 21st century chair in leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.

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Plans to take the Easter out of an annual Easter egg hunt in Britain are under fire as an unnecessary act of political correctness.

Both the Church of England and Prime Minister Theresa May have condemned the move by the National Trust, a conservation charity responsible for organizing the annual event.

Last year it was called the Easter egg Trail. This year it is being promoted as the Great British Egg Hunt with Easter being lost in the transition.

This marketing campaign . . . highlights the folly in airbrushing faith from Easter, said an official statement from the Church of England that was sent to The Washington Post. A church spokeswoman added that senior church leaders are adamantly against the re-branding.

Some 300,000 children are expected to attend this years hunt, held at 250 sites owned by the National Trust, a charity that promotes conservation. It partners with Cadbury, the maker of the chocolate eggs for the hunt.

Finger-pointing is already underway as to who decided to remove the reference to Easter.

The National Trust is in no way downplaying the significance of Easter, a spokesman told the Telegraph, placing the blame for the growing fiasco on Cadburys board of directors who are responsible for the branding and wording of our egg hunt campaign.

Prime Minister May is a member of the National Trust, and she has not minced her criticism of the charitys decision to bow to political correctness especially since it wasnt even under any pressure to do so.

I think what the National Trust is doing is frankly just ridiculous, May told ITV Nanews. Easters very important. Its important to me, its a very important festival for the Christian faith for millions across the world.

Though Easter has been banished from all event advertising, it can be found on Cadburys website, which contains a reference to consumers of chocolate being welcome to Enjoy Easter Fun if they participate in the annual egg hunt.

Cadbury tiptoes around the Christian origins of the festival, assuring people of their multicultural bonafides in a statement that even includes atheists: We invite people from all faiths and none to enjoy our seasonal treats.

Archbishop John Sentamu of York said Cadbury is adding insult to injury by renaming the event because the companys founder, John Cadbury, was a devout Quaker who recognized the Christian significance of Easter.

To drop Easter from Cadburys Easter Egg Hunt in my book is tantamount to spitting on the grave of Cadbury, Sentamu said in a statement.

He built houses for all his workers, he built a church, he made provision for schools, Sentamu said. It is obvious that for him Jesus and justice were two sides of the one coin.

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Political Correctness Hits Annual Easter Egg Hunt In Britain - Daily Caller