Are they trying to top the stupidity of a university board for firing a guy who used the word "niggardly"?
Actually, he was the diversity guy for Washington, D.C...and, IIRC, he qualified as "diverse" because he was gay but not diverse enough after using the term "niggardly."
Ah, yes. The DC diversity guy. I remember the details now. The clip I recall was from a DC diversity council woman who wouldn't accept his apology. I don't remember her exact punchline, but I recall it was something like "It doesn't matter what the word reaaally means. What matters is how it makes me feeeeeeeeeeel."
So we aren't only banned from saying words which some ignoramaus might misunderstand, we are also responsible for how we make them feeeeeeeeeel.