The Latest West Virginia Joke: UWV

I don’t mean to poke fun at the state of West Virginia in this article. The Mountaineer State has long been the butt of  jokes around the country. Supposedly, people from West Virginia are a bunch of dumb, inbred hillbillies. I don’t intend to pile on here. In contrast, there is a misperception that in places like West Virginia, the Midwest, and the South, people have too much common sense to fall for the politically correct madness that infects our universities. Only in places like California does that insanity reign supreme.

Think again.

The fact is that the culture of our universities exists all over the country. Thus, you find islands of insanity right in the middle of red states like-even West Virginia.

From Daily Wire comes the story of a University West Virginia student who is actually under investigation for wearing a Halloween costume dressed up like a border patrol agent.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/39375/west-virginia-university-student-investigated-kassy-dillon

Even if you think the costumes are in bad taste (as opposed to looking like a skeleton or ghost), how can one argue that this crosses the line of freedom of expression?

Strike that. On university campuses, we don’t even know anymore what crosses the line. If there isa  guide, it is called political correctness. You can dress up like Donald Trump with fangs and blood drooling down your chin, but God help you if you show up on any campus wearing a MAGA cap. You can walk around waving the flags of Mexico, Honduras, or that mythical land called Palestine, but God help you if it is an American flag. That is offensive, you know.

So don’t think that academic insanity is limited to California. You can send your kids to the University of Mississippi or the University of Alabama and find the same thing.

We already know about the University of West Virginia.