This article is the perfect example how the BBC inadvertently elevates fringe organisations and think tanks, lending them credibility. Exhibit A: the story. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54107329

So this story is about a lot of things: how everything is viewed through US/Anglo centric lens, including language. An innocuous phrase being homophonous to a slur, therefore it has to be viewed from the point of view of the slur. But I digress.

The second and more relevant part of the story is how legitimate requests from students for inclusion and accommodation can be easily hijacked by well-meaning but misguided individuals - and also groups and organisations with ulterior motives.

In this case the BBC article sources the story from a tweet from Cabot Phillips: if you look at him he is editing a publication (or website or whatever) called Campus Reform. His thread contains a number of other 'scandals' which aren't the product of misunderstandings.

For instance the very next tweet in his own thread refers to a story when a professor suggested to a student to use a different name from her given name.

Her name is Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen.

Two tweets below another story of a lecturer who sent an email to students saying "everyone's life matter"

See a pattern here?

This is exactly how Migration Watch the Taxpayers' Alliance and the rest of the retched awful groups got their footing: the mainstream media (I hate that phrase) gave the clout and legitimacy by sourcing their stories from them. True or not this is how they are "smuggled in"

("true or not" refers to the news items being true or not)