[FourtySeven]

LOL.....I laughed for 5 minutes after reading this. The kid shouldn't have been evicted, good Lord! Have we become so insane about "PC" in this country that a JOKE is now actionable?

[broadsword]

We are way too PC-whipped!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Have we become so insane about "PC" in this country that a JOKE is now actionable?

Yep.

My youngest (9th grade) said the pity about all of this PC stuff was "that everyone was so uptight, and no one can take a joke." He gets it.

Doesn't compassion for the homeless trump compassion for the potentially chubby in the brave new PC world?

[Dataman]

Have we become so insane about "PC" in this country that a JOKE is now actionable?

Not to mention that this is a student (customer) paying for his education-- not an employee getting paid to comply with stupid rules.

If WalMart treated its customers like the government schools treat their students, it would soon fold: ATTENTION SECURITY! A CHILD DROPPED A GUM WRAPPER IN AISLE 13! PLEASE ESCORT HIM TO THE DOOR AND BE SURE TO TAKE HIS MONEY FIRST!

[oblomov]

Where have you been? That's the entire point of political correctness - to outlaw humor! Humor is the greatest enemy of tyrants.