hxstory

scarequotes commented on the word hxstory

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/the-college-that-wants-to-ban-history.html

The list of demands ends with a lengthy denunciation of WWU’s marginalization of “hxstorically oppressed students.” The misspelling is intentional: “hxstory,” I presume, was judged to be more PC than “history,” which is gendered, triggering, and perhaps violent. It’s easy for me to laugh at these clumsy attempts to make language obey the dictates of political correctness—but I laugh from a position of relative safety, since I am not a WWU professor.

November 4, 2016