Telling students to be “upstanders” – those who intervene when they see injustice – Minow compared apartheid and forced segregation of public schools to … accidentally offending someone:
“Taking even seemingly small acts in one’s own school can build the culture that prevents violence, bullying, sexual assault, and racial microaggressions,” she said.
...the University of California was telling faculty that saying “America is the land of opportunity” was a microaggression.
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Stacy McCain is right. Harvard and Yale are full of so called "smart people" that are some of the dumbest and destructive MFers who ever lived.
It would be funny, but for the damage they have inflicted on our Republic.
The more laws on the books, and the more actions that are illegal, the more attorneys are needed.
Microagression is the coolest word evah. Too bad it sounds silly, because I think it's a real thing, and the accretion of spiky little microagressions is like the slow growth of coral.
The overwhelming aggression on campus seems to be the shut down of debate, disagreement, and tolerance. It's not micro - it's big, obvious, intolerant and oppressive, using intimidation and violent threat. Solve your big ugly mega-aggressions before you call out my micro ones. Let's call it "hyperhypocrisy".
The embracing and coddling of mediocrity on campus for the cause of getting everyone in college, now has Universities with large numbers of people there, including the faculty, who can neither handle the classic material or think of anything original and deep, so they go for lazy, unexamined, unchallenged stupidity like creating new words for things that have been with us forever, so they can pretend they came up with something new while simultaneously giving that thing importance it does not really have.
I think one of them is in charge of Google spelling which is telling me there is no such word as "unexamined". Maybe I deserve a teaching position for inventing it.
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