Take Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who
wrote a gentle satire on political correctness, Do the Left Thing,
where he described the “violence” done daily to him as a left-handyd
(sic) person in a world of right-handedness.

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It should have ended there. Instead, Mahmood’s apartment door was
vandalised by outraged students, who found his satire “triggering”.

Subsequently, he was fired from his job as a columnist with a student

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the possibility of civilised debate.

Some of the examples he gives make Mahmood’s satire seem anodyne. For
example, “UCLA students staged a sit-in to protest microaggressions
such as when a professor corrected a student’s decision to spell the