Can't get enough? Well, there's more where that came from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression
Microaggression is the idea that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, or genders can be interpreted as mostly non-physical aggression ...
microaggressions.tumblr.com/
Have a question/comment/similar experience to share? Email us or fill out our contribution form. Note: The comments section provides a space for people to ...
www.aapd.com/resources/power.../micro-aggression-its.html
Jan 24, 2012 – One of the more unnoticed forms, however prevalent, is micro-aggression. AAPD is taking a very proactive approach in combating bullying and ...
Posts
13 comments:
People really like to complain.
I listened to that Chinese-American professor blabbering on about micro-aggressions. Here in sunny Costa Rica a large proportion of the wealthy retirees are gay. They seem to have had no trouble making money in the face of all this "micro-persecution".
My own father was gay - a fact I never liked, but which I have learned to accept. He always said that gays could identify each other, that they helped each other and that it has always been an advantage to be gay. He even tried to get me to dress gay for job interviews.
Did you just learn about "microaggressions?"
The term has been around for a few years now. I think it contains an element of truth: the problems that these people complain about are really microscopic.
Its very much like the Spanish Inquisition - not just in the inquisitorial zeal, but how and obsessive the inquisitors became in finding obscure targets to justify their pious anger once the real targets had been eliminated.
There were never many protestants in Spain to begin with, and once they expelled the Jews, the legal machinery of the inquisition spent the next 200 years chasing drunken jokes and odd diet habits.
On the victims of the later Inquisition:
"Most of them were in no sense Protestants...Irreligious sentiments, drunken mockery, anticlerical expressions, were all captiously classified by the inquisitors (or by those who denounced the cases) as 'Lutheran.' Disrespect to church images, and eating meat on forbidden days, were taken as signs of heresy"
You could replace "heresy" and "Protestantism" with "racism" and it would perfectly capture the mindset and activities of the current campus and media enforcers.
This must be tied to "White Privilege" somehow...when it becomes difficult to find examples of Macro-agression, and white people believably profess and act like they are not racists, you've got to get creative.
You must constantly fuel the anger of minorities, or the coalition of the aggrieved will fall apart.
Well, there's definitely some truth to this "microaggression" idea. I've definitely noticed that people are always saying and doing subtly screwed up stuff to each other in order to try to put the other person down and build themselves up. This occurs even among members of the same race/sex/whatever.
I'm in favor of DE-sensitvity training. That is, offend people so much, that these little things seem like just that.
So, some prof or lecturer who was about to lose his employment due to cutbacks or some such other jolt to his or her job stability, came up the idea for a class, one that Black Studies, Hispanic Studies, Gay Studies, Ethnic Studies majors could take as an elective toward their degree.
Ah ha: Microaggression.
Don't you just luv it: if you have no evidence that you've been a victim, no proof you've been discrimated against, you make up the answer---oh, it must be "microaggression," the diss you can't see or hear or touch or smell or taste, yet you know it's there!
Yep. The lecturer probably has several sections of the class, all filled up to the brim, and the admin can justify keeping him/her.
One name you won't see on these microaggression sites: Don Rickles. But it would be lovely if Rickles - and, say, Andrew Dice Clay and Adam Carolla - put some time in on those sites, just to give their habitués something halfway substantial to chew on.
" Anonymous said...
So, some prof or lecturer who was about to lose his employment due to cutbacks or some such other jolt to his or her job stability, came up the idea for a class, one that Black Studies, Hispanic Studies, Gay Studies, Ethnic Studies majors could take as an elective toward their degree. "
The ex-Columbia University professor Madonna Constantine was due to face a disciplinary board for plagiarizing a fellow academic and two students (students!) when a noose was conveniently found hanging on her office door. Which resulted in the anti-racist equivalent of slut-walks, earnest pontifications of teaching moments, etc...
She was still found guilty of plagiarism and sacked however so justice prevailed for once. Her last two research papers were on, yep, micro-aggression.
There were never many protestants in Spain to begin with, and once they expelled the Jews, the legal machinery of the inquisition spent the next 200 years chasing drunken jokes and odd diet habits.
Protestantism was really off-the-radar in post-Reconquista Spain - and NOT due to presecution by the Church. Any conflict was Christian (Catholic) vs. Jewish-Muslim rather than Catholic vs. Protestant as in the rest of Western Europe. When you have real enemies, you have no need to invent any. Similarly, how many Protestants were there in Greece?
"Protestantism was really off-the-radar in post-Reconquista Spain - and NOT due to presecution by the Church. Any conflict was Christian (Catholic) vs. Jewish-Muslim rather than Catholic vs. Protestant as in the rest of Western Europe. "
Hardly. They had a major uprising of protestants on their hands in their most wealthy "colony": the Low Countries (the Netherlands and Belgium)
One on the tumblr site complained about a product warning that it may be harmful to pregnant women. I see a great jeopardy style game here.
Post a Comment