Posted on 04/22/2015 8:29:29 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
The latest campus fad, which sees racism everywhere, will create a new generation of permanent victims.
In November 2013, two dozen graduate students at the University of California at Los Angeles marched into an education class and announced a protest against its “hostile and unsafe climate for Scholars of Color.” The students had been victimized, they claimed, by racial “microaggression”—the hottest concept on campuses today, used to call out racism otherwise invisible to the naked eye. UCLA’s response to the sit-in was a travesty of justice. The education school sacrificed the reputation of a beloved and respected professor in order to placate a group of ignorant students making a specious charge of racism.
The pattern would repeat itself twice more at UCLA that fall: students would allege that they were victimized by racism, and the administration, rather than correcting the students’ misapprehension, penitently acceded to it. Colleges across the country behave no differently. As student claims of racial and gender mistreatment grow ever more unmoored from reality, campus grown-ups have abdicated their responsibility to cultivate an adult sense of perspective and common sense in their students. Instead, they are creating what tort law calls “eggshell plaintiffs”—preternaturally fragile individuals injured by the slightest collisions with life. The consequences will affect us for years to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
I could make a joke about these pukes being micro...something or another but I wont ..because I cant spell the word...and it would be unkind to those poor folks with tiny heads!
PFL
I wish I could start my own business for the sole purpose of being able to fire a few ... hundred of these morons.
Um, being straight is institutionalized oppression now?
And in case any DU'ers or the like are eavesdropping... yes, I said "straight". I'm not cis-gender or any other new-speak term. I'm straight, and I am part of the 97% of society. Deal with it, my special little snowflakes.
These kids are all gonna need government jobs
You microaggressed me by posting this article!
If microaggression bothers them, wait till they meet the boss after they leave college. Then they can learn about Macroaggression.
If microaggression bothers them, wait till they meet the boss after they leave college. Then they can learn about Macroaggression.
Are you perchance thinking of the word ( yes, it’s one word! )
microcephalic ?
I feel microagressed any time someone tells me to check my privilege.
Scholars of Color? Gonna have to think about that one for awhile.
When will the cleansing solar EMP come...
Painters' apprentices.
Good one.
We always have some "eggshell" conservatives around here. "Preternaturally fragile individuals injured by the slightest collisions with" the facts about their presidential candidate's actual liberal positions on public policy.
IOW - anyone who doesn’t fall on their faces to worship us, just for being who and what we are, is being racially aggressive and needs to be put in their place....
yes.
Scholars of Color ... I presume we’re going back to “colored people”. Well, at least the racist NAACP will be somewhat relevant again.
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