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If a college or university has buildings that “are all named after white, heterosexual, upper class males,” that’s a microaggression.

Or more precisely, it’s an “environmental macro-microaggression.”

Yes, the leftist lexicon grows with this latest example, which has apparently been around for a few years but only recently caught the attention of campus watchdogs.

It’s one example cited by a University of Missouri-Columbia “Racial Microaggressions in Every Day Life” list posted on its website, a supporting document of the public university’s effort to make the campus more “inclusive.”

A college with buildings named after such men is an environmental microaggression because it allegedly implies “you don’t belong/you won’t succeed here. There is only so far you can go,” the list states.

Other examples are “television shows and movies that feature predominantly white people, without representation of people of color” and “overcrowding of public schools in communities of color.”

The University of Missouri list also cites the more widely publicized  microaggressions that came to light recently, such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “There is only one race, the human race.”

Last week, Missouri passed the Campus Free Expression Act, giving college students permission to say whatever they want, wherever they want.

We’ll see if the spirit of that law is upheld in the Show-Me State given that just three days after it became unlawful in Missouri to restrict student speech to campus “free speech zones,” faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia were advised to correct peers’ noninclusive language.

Indeed, a four-page list of “inclusive terminology” was distributed at the voluntary University of Missouri workplace diversity seminar.