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 ...
He probably has one semester of Philosophy under his belt. The exact amount needed to know what is wrong with the beliefs/lifestyles of every other person on the planet.
PS Don’t blame outstate Minnesota for the actions of those in the metro, it’s a different world out here ;).
and then theres the other new term.... CIS-SY!
Call the Waaaaaambulance too.
Three words for Rashad: Man up already.
Um...Al Franken. Jesse Ventura...?
He didn’t get his vaccine against the vapors?
“Only the dead have seen the end to war.” — Plato
A sage observation from old, dead white guy...
He can always move to Africa
The world is a tough place. Maybe Rashad will be mortally stricken from his maladies. We can only hope.
Poor Rashad, maybe some day he can visit the real world instead of his imagined one.
-PJ
Micro-aggression.
Because it’s not paranoia if you can blame someone else for your irrational phobias.
See white, straight, un-disabled people is harmful?
A 10 1/2 boot in his ass would work wonders too.
im thinking he represents as unique niche within the human species for which most remedies “work” in a negative fashion.
try to give em a clue...and they get more foolish..
offer them a cure...and they just get sicker
that type
IOW big lie principle in action in order to justify government sanctioned racism.
“triggering” is also kind of new
in which whiteness, patriarchy, heteronormativity, cissexism, ableism and classism prevail
What the hell is "whiteness", "heteronormativity," "cissexism", or "ableism?".
To do this, we must understand and be accountable for our privilege. Rashad, go up my old neck of the woods of Roscommon County and see the "privilege" I grew up with. Rural poverty.
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.
The problem is that you aren't willing to do so.
I think we should crowd fund a Victorian fainting couch for him.
At some point, the Rashad Timmons generation is going to have to manage and defend the country. Thank God I’ll be dead or senile by then.
+1
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