Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 04/08/2015 1:25:32 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing an opinion piece to Michigan State University’s paper the State News, Rashad Timmons says that microaggressions are causing him several medical afflictions. His letter was titled, “Intentional or not, microaggressions severely impact underrepresented members of society.”
According to Timmons, people who “are not privileged” are suffering greatly from the intentional and unintentional triggers that others are causing. “On a campus,” he writes, ” — and nation at large — in which whiteness, patriarchy, heteronormativity, cissexism, ableism and classism prevail, students that are not privileged by these constructs often have difficulty navigating hegemonic, oppressive environments.”
Timmons writes about different maladies that have come about because of these microaggressions.
He writes that some people have “pressure in the chest” after a microaggression. “It leads you,” he explains with specificity, “to the public restroom on the second floor — too much traffic on the first — of some indiscriminate building that you stumbled into only out of proximity and the immediate need for safety and silence."
...White people, straight people, males, people who are not disabled, those who identify as their birth sex, and those who are not poor must check their “privilege,” Timmons explains.
“To do this,” he concludes, “we must understand and be accountable for our privilege. We must be willing to address the uncomfortable in a wholly racialized, politicized and sexualized society to create safer spaces for all to exist and thrive in.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
I want to be at his face so he can keel over completely.
Anxiety is not limited by the color of your skin. Some of the things that people claim are racist happen to all of us!
“cissexism”
Never seen that ism before.
Is "shunning" a microaggression, or a macroaggression?
His remarks are offensive and triggering. I fear an attach of the vapors.
The IS savages are happy they hope more Americans are this weak so when they invade there would be little opposition.
No that’s a sign of mental illness but then that’s completely normal for your kind so no worries.
I bet that idiot has never done anything useful, never built anything, never worked with his hands, never taken personal responsibility for something’s success or failure, never given or taken orders for which he was accountable
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And is utterly incapable of doing so.
Freshman know-it-all students are a hoot.
Don’t sweat the small stuff kid. And guess what? It’s all small stuff! Aaaaiieeee!
““To do this,” he concludes, “we must...”
#1 - There ain’t no “we” here, buddy
#2 - You can tell yourself what YOU MUST do, but don’t tell me what I MUST do, or I will tell you where you CAN stick it.
your tagline ...
There is no God but YHWH ... and Jesus is His Son.
Black racism knows no limits and becomes a mental disorder if unchecked. We’ve all seen it at work on someone.
How about another pain...butt meet boot.
Growing up, we had a overly-protective mom in the neighborhood who had succeeded in making her 4 year-old child a fearful, tearful momma’s boy of the highest order.
One day, just after she had kissed Little Johnny’s boo-boo and dried his tears, another neighbor mom asked her what ever was she going to do when Little Johnny had to go off to kindergarten and fend for himself.
It was perhaps the first time in my young life that I saw a person’s face actually turn red from anger.
Bless his heart.
Rashad, I’ve heard that Kenya is lovely this time of year. GO THERE!
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