Student #1: So did you see the Bond movie?
Student #2: Yes
Student #1: So, what did you think?
Student #2: Pretty gay.

Evidently, according to to Queen's, these sort of conversations will warrant a visit from the PC police with powers to intervene in private conversations when they hear homophobic, racial, or sexist tinged remarks. akin to hilary duff's public service announcement

whether in the library, dining hall, and anywhere on campus, the university has hired six facilitators to monitor the campus and intervene where they fit. the aim of the program is to step and have students justify their words, and such tension is supposedly a beneficial tension.

now, students needed to be careful when referring to the assisgnment as gay, the T.A. as retarded or calling your russian friend, vodkalky.

the intent of engaging in dialogue to foster an inclusive environment is noble but confronting students in their private conversations opens up a whole different debate. is the aim to encourage dialogue or create a PC environment where students walk around anxiously that their conversations are being listened in on?

much like other strategies of cleaning up the public sphere, this program could fall to the same criticism; in reality, doing nothing other than brushing people's thoughts deeper into the private realm where the reprocussions are potentially worse. dorm rooms, parties, even less private settings like lecture halls where one assumes the facilitators cannot enter may become more toxic and more threatening.

creating the consciousness that the public's words are subject to ever more scrutiny undermines much of the 'openness' the university is supposed to be. not saying that insulting words and deragatory terms should be thrown about free of consequences because one is in a university. but the free idea of a 'conversation police' goes in the wrong direction of creating anxiety, uneasiness that someone one's own thoughts are not in line with the school administration's position.