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NY College Creates System to Report Microaggressions, Sue Aggressors
Pundit Press ^ | 3/26/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 03/26/2015 10:06:43 AM PDT by rightistight

Ithaca College Student Government Association is creating an online system which it claims will give students the ability to “report microaggressions.” It believes the action will “make Ithaca College a safer, more inclusive and diverse community for all students.”

The system will be online and will fill the needs of students, the Student Government Association believes. It will also be anonymous.

However, Kyle James, vice president of communications and co-sponsor of the bill, states that if a student who has been subject to microaggression wants to sue the “aggressor,” they’ll have to “reveal their identity.”

The system will also track who is reporting the microaggression and how they believe they were insulted.

Junior Elijah Breton, senator for the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, supports the bill, saying, “Just like any other resolution that we want to pass with microaggression and diversity in the institution, what it does is it helps to make people think a little more before they do or say something.”

Sophomore Joshua Kelly, senator-at-large, was the only vote in the Student Government against the bill. He said he was dismayed at talk of suing people over microaggressions.

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To: 17th Miss Regt
"And if the student who has been sued for microaggression turns around and countersues for damage to reputation, etc. the college will be included as a defendant and they will shut this thing down real fast."

That is the best-case scenario. I'd love to see it happen.
41 posted on 03/26/2015 10:47:59 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: rightistight

Stealing a line from the Instapundit, to these thugs Orwell’s “1984” is not a warning but a guide book. The Stasi, KGB, and Gestapo would be proud of Ithaca College.


42 posted on 03/26/2015 10:48:13 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: BillyBonebrake

The City of Evil song

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1012435/posts


43 posted on 03/26/2015 10:48:52 AM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: jazusamo

The rights of other people always take a back seat to the feelings of liberal pansies. The liberal will always turn into a fascist when they attain power. Only a liberal douche could even come up with a term like micro-aggresion.


44 posted on 03/26/2015 10:49:59 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: peeps36
"Only a liberal douche could even come up with a term like micro-aggresion."

And if you were a student at Ithaca and tweeted something like that, you'd be hustled off to the dean's office and threatened with expulsion. But I wonder if similar jibes from the Left (e.g., "tea-baggers") would meet with such consequences.
45 posted on 03/26/2015 10:53:52 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: I want the USA back
Will there be “microrapes” too when a man asks a woman out?

"Microrape" has already been defined as a man looking at a woman. If he actually goes so far as to speak to her, that constitutes full-on sexual assault. :)

46 posted on 03/26/2015 10:54:22 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

To protect themselves from charges of “visual rape” or some such thing, men will have to wear dark sunglasses all the time so that their eye movements can’t be detected.


47 posted on 03/26/2015 10:56:27 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

The only sure defense is to go trans


48 posted on 03/26/2015 10:57:10 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: rightistight

There once was a coed with a short dress on
Who in order to teach guys a tough lesson
Slowly walked by
To catch their eye
So she could sued them for microagression


49 posted on 03/26/2015 11:06:06 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: dblshot

Correction

There once was a coed with a short dress on
Who in order to teach guys a tough lesson
Slowly walked by
To catch their eye
So she could sue them for microagression


50 posted on 03/26/2015 11:07:06 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: rightistight

“The very definition of a microaggression is that it isn’t intended, so the very idea of taking legal action against somebody for not intending to say something that happened to be harmful is not my idea of living in a free society,” he[Sophomore Joshua Kelly] explained.”

Apparently the lone sane voice on campus. He’ll be brought up on charges of insensitivity and macroaggression shortly.


51 posted on 03/26/2015 11:19:35 AM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: rightistight

Preparing young adults to be an obedient, submissive cog in the NWO wheel. And barely an ounce of resistance.


52 posted on 03/26/2015 11:20:45 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Teacher317

He’s conservative, thus sexist, ban him from the college.


53 posted on 03/26/2015 11:24:29 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: rightistight

Offensiveness is disagreement with the liberal agenda.

Microaggression is resistance to the liberal agenda.


54 posted on 03/26/2015 11:29:02 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: I want the USA back

A man won’t ask a trans-woman out, micro-aggression.
Girl won’t date the lesbian who asked her out, micro-aggression.


55 posted on 03/26/2015 11:31:18 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: kosciusko51

“I could be wrong, but there is a lot of behavior that the left classifies as micro-aggression.”

How true.

I was thinking of loud-mouthed morons who have no respect for anyone or anything, who shoot their mouths off, manipulate and raise the blood pressure of reasonable humans.

(Leftists do turn things upside down, don’t they.)

IMHO


56 posted on 03/26/2015 12:12:02 PM PDT by ripley
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To: ripley
I was thinking of loud-mouthed morons who have no respect for anyone or anything, who shoot their mouths off, manipulate and raise the blood pressure of reasonable humans.

The only thing micro about that aggression is the size of their ...

57 posted on 03/26/2015 12:14:30 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: rightistight

And when they get rid of all the microagression they can go after nanoagression and picoaggression.


58 posted on 03/26/2015 12:19:00 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: Suz in AZ

Good point.

The opportunities for a conservative student (or faculty member, for that matter) to be “microaggressed” on a liberal college campus (like Ithaca) are immense. You might even say it would be a “target rich environment .”

Then there is the whole issue of creating and administering such a system.

How glibly the student Senator referred to creating the on-line reporting system, as if it would code itself.

Such a reporting system would have to be accountable and secure. No reports unaccounted for; no reports against favored groups inexplicably “disappearing,” and, of course, verification of reporter’s identity to ensure no outsiders were corrupting the system with false reports.

Then there is the follow-up investigation and report process. Who is going to do that? Students? They thought they were there to study. (Bet their parents think the same thing as well.)

And what kind of oversight system will be put in place to ensure that every report is addressed and that the decisions of the review board are fair and impartial. They would also have to develop a list of offenses, define the elements of each offense, enumerate defenses against the charges, and explain the whole adjudication process (including appeals).

And last, but not least, a database will have to be established and populated with report data so that proper statistical analysis can be performed by the university and outside researchers. Again, who is going to do that coding and data input?

And, of course, we have to acknowledge to probable exposure to legal liabilities that such a system would create for the university .

Yes, the microaggression reporting system would probably seize up on its own bureaucratic requirements.

Co-opted by the right? No, just demand that it be set up properly and then use it to the max!


59 posted on 03/26/2015 1:05:38 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow)
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To: rightistight

So the Butthurt Report is going to be an actual thing?


60 posted on 03/26/2015 1:11:29 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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