<p>Over-the-top political correctness can be nauseating. Can someone share their views on how Oberlin and Wesleyan differ in terms of political correctness?</p>
<p>while I reject the premise of the question, I submit for your consideration: [Committee</a> on Privilege and Oppression - Oberwiki, The Oberlin Wiki](<a href=“Registrant WHOIS contact information verification | Namecheap.com”>Registrant WHOIS contact information verification | Namecheap.com)</p>
<p>You go to any school where the privileged, intelligent, and otherwise elite gather, and there’s going to be a standard amount of guilt felt by said people in their perceived historical dominance over the non-elite. Hence, elite universities are a breeding ground for this “political correctness” that you speak of. Really, it’s just young people feeling empathy, but the anti-PC people turn it into something sinister.</p>
<p>If you really hate the idea of being someplace where the administration, as well as at least a fair bit of the student body, is “too PC,” you probably shouldn’t be looking at either Oberlin or Wes.</p>
<p>“it’s just young people feeling empathy.”</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s all it is. Except for the protests, the marches, the demanding people get fired or kicked out of school, the shouting down of people with differing opinions, and the branding of people as racists, sexists, and morons.</p>
<p>“shouting down of people with differing opinions”</p>
<p>I’ve lived all my life in San Francisco, and love it here, but that ^ is exactly what I don’t want. There’s a fine line between being unconventional and being close-minded to everything else, so it’s not that I despise all things PC, but I’d like to how close both schools are to toeing the line. </p>
<p>Obviously, the students at both schools are socially aware. That’s a good thing. I should have rephrased my question to ask, “Are students at Wes and Oberlin open-minded and tolerant, or just challenging convention for the sake of it?” Obviously, the answers to this will be very subjective, but I’m hoping for a good discussion on when political correctness becomes too much.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go to either Wesleyan or Oberlin to find people who are “open-minded and tolerant.”</p>
<p>^^Your question is absurdly subjective. Different people have different standards of what is “too” PC. Some students at Wes and Oberlin are open-minded and tolerant; others are more interested in just challenging convention. This is also true of a school like Amherst. Obviously the former choice is positively connotated and the latter negatively connotated–so it is impossible for anyone but YOU to judge how YOU would feel about the level of political correctness.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, the co-founder of the Wesleyan prisoner education project just won a Rhodes Scholarship:
<a href=“http://wesinthenews.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/22/perkins-09-awarded-rhodes-scholarship/[/url]”>http://wesinthenews.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/22/perkins-09-awarded-rhodes-scholarship/</a></p>