"" SOMETHING STRANGE IS happening
at America’s colleges and
universities. A movement is arising,
undirected and driven largely by
students, to scrub campuses clean of
words, ideas, and subjects that
might cause discomfort or give offense. Last
December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online
article for The New Yorker about law
students asking her fellow professors at
Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one
case, even use the word violate (as in “that
violates the law”) lest it cause students
distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a
professor at Northwestern University, wrote
an essay in The Chronicle of Higher
Education describing a new campus politics
of sexual paranoia—and was then subjected
to a long investigation after students who
were offended by the article and by a tweet
she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against
her. In June, a professor protecting himself
with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox
describing how gingerly he now has to
teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My
Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline
said. A number of popular comedians,
including Chris Rock, have stopped
performing on college campuses (see Caitlin
Flanagan’s article in this month’s issue).
Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly
condemned the oversensitivity of college
students, saying too many of them can’t
take a joke.
Two terms have risen quickly from
obscurity into common campus parlance.
Microaggressions are small actions or word
choices that seem on their face to have no
malicious intent but that are thought of as a
kind of violence nonetheless. For example,
by some campus guidelines, it is a
microaggression to ask an Asian American
or Latino American “Where were you
born?,” because this implies that he or she
is not a real American. Trigger warnings are
alerts that professors are expected to issue if
something in a course might cause a strong
emotional response. For example, some
students have called for warnings that
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes
racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and
physical abuse, so that students who have
been previously victimized by racism or
domestic violence can choose to avoid these
works, which they believe might “trigger” a
recurrence of past trauma.
Some recent campus actions border on the
surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the
Asian American student association sought
to raise awareness of microaggressions
against Asians through an installation on
the steps of an academic hall. The
installation gave examples of
microaggressions such as “Aren’t you
supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m
colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash
arose among other Asian American students,
who felt that the display itself was a
microaggression. The association removed
the installation, and its president wrote an
e-mail to the entire student body
apologizing to anyone who was “triggered
or hurt by the content of the
microaggressions.”
This new climate is slowly being
institutionalized, and is affecting what can
be said in the classroom, even as a basis for
discussion. During the 2014–15 school year,
for instance, the deans and department
chairs at the 10 University of California
system schools were presented by
administrators at faculty leader-training
sessions with examples of microaggressions.
The list of offensive statements included:
“America is the land of opportunity” and “I
believe the most qualified person should get
the job.”"

Whole article is here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

This country is so screwed when these morons are actually running things

I try not to deal in micro aggressions. I usually revert to the macro kind. Boot to the head, a snappily racked 12 guage, the unmistakable sound of a semi auto jacking a round up the spout. You know, things that people should understand are an announcement that clearly an aggression is about to take place, and if they were smart they should be like bananas and split.

The whole 'micro' thing is a movement that I swear was created one night at a professorial conference after some quality weed had been vaporized. A sociology prof said she needed something to add to her course or else was in danger of losing her job. What kind of BS terminology could they come up with to create a new course of study and help her out? 'Microaggressions' was the answer.

So I can't say I have black friends as that's 'aggressive'. I can't say that I am not a racist, because that means I actually am. I can't ask the smartest kid in class for math help if he or she is Asian, because that's racist. Saying to someone rocking an afro that they have nice hair is aggressive. Commenting that the black girl dances well is racist. It's just stunning how easily offended someone can get now. Well actually, just if you are not a white person. I mean what would be a 'white person' food? Tuna casserole? So if the university or college serves tuna casserole in the cafeteria, can white people call that institutional racism? Maybe if the vending machine has PB&J sandwiches (on white bread!) can we sue the vending company for mental anguish?

Time for whitey to get some payback! Where's my lawyer? Can we get CNN in on this? "The White Shaming of America" tonight at 10pm on CNN. Don Lemon explores the urgent socio-economic plight of the lily white heterosexual, and how society oppresses and belittles them at every turn......

You triggered me!!

Me too, guns trigger me....

and diversity.
We should all be one big messy melting pot.
Oh, we are...

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Wow! All of that, yet about half of all college students who apply for work at my company, aren't literate enough to read the application, let alone fill it out.


My... all that protesting, must really deflect away from basic academics.

That's quite surprising that college students would be that narrow minded and so easily triggered by such mundane statements.

Generation Y, then
Generation Cry (the whiny babies), now
Generation Why (why did you say that?)

More absurd ridiculousness. They need to go outside and do some yard work.

Oh no...they would consider that a microaggression to Mexicans

What a waste of a good college education...

They don't care, it's mommy and daddy's money anyway....

If all theyre gonna do is make mountains out of molehills, mommy and daddy should home school them instead...

Well then, they can just pick some fruit, too, while there at it. Let's throw in some macro-aggression as well.

society run by white people, founded by white people for the benefit of white people is OPRESSING white people?

PB&J sandwiches (on
white bread!) can we sue the vending company
for mental anguish?


Its not white bread anymore... it's now "the color of white pigment" bread. And there is no more Italian or French bread either. It's now " bread from various European countries"

You just triggered yeast worldwide

What will French fries be called?

ya know, I think they should be called AMerican Fried Potatoes

the vegetable eaten the most by americans in the manner they are most often eaten too

i see a lot of potential in this topic..

French kiss
French toast
French dressing.....

since you can get them most anywhere they are now " planet Earth fries"

That way we don't piss anyone off ;)

double post ;)