You might say the left is bitterly clinging to political correctness.

The College Fix reported.

College president chides critics of political correctness, questions his school’s mascot

In a Thursday Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed, Susquehanna University President L. Jay Lemons perfectly exemplifies the point I made a month ago about political correctness.

“There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about ‘political correctness,’” he writes, “particularly among our presidential candidates. Donald Trump doesn’t have time for it. Ben Carson thinks it’s ‘ruining our country.’”

“They and many others resent being criticized for intolerance and discrimination. Yet they twist the term political correctness to denigrate critics and excuse their own behavior disparaging another’s race, gender, or national origin.”

You can think what you want about some of the top two GOP candidates’ comments (for what it’s worth, personally, I think the former crossed a line with his (in)famous comments about Mexicans), but here we see yet again an academician completely ignoring what actually irritates people about political correctness (and which most probably accounts for much of Trump’s and Carson’s current popularity).

Lemons’ personal example? His school’s mascot, the Crusader. Uh oh!

For the past six weeks I’ve been on the road, gathering input on the Crusader nickname and mascot from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. As you might guess, folks came down on both sides of the issue. Some feel a loyalty to the tradition associated with Crusader and want to own and define the term in light of its origins here. Others felt that the Crusader nickname has negative connotations that are at odds with our university’s values and commitment to diversity and inclusiveness.

Both those feelings are valid, but I bristle at the critics who have suggested that we are bowing to political correctness by even bringing this issue to debate. It seems it’s easier than ever these days to rise up and rail against political correctness. Used as a justification, insult, or outright dismissal, it prevents difficult issues from being treated with the complexity they deserve. To pride oneself — as some of those presidential candidates do — on opposing “political correctness” is to stubbornly insist on the right to trivialize issues that may affect others’ lives.