Posted on 06/18/2015 6:29:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That’s according to the University of California, an arm of state government, as Ace reminds us. I don’t get it. Since when does government dislike meritocracy?
More microaggressions per U of C: “America is a melting pot” and “America is the land of opportunity.” We’re very close to the end now, my friends.
Here’s a bit from the UCLA diversity handout. On the left is what “microaggressors” say, on the right is what they supposedly mean:
My favorite is “gender plays no part in who we hire,” a policy feminists have spent decades demanding from American businesses only to dismiss it now as aggressively sexist, a self-delusion promoted by the corporate world to disguise their bias against women. Gender inescapably plays a part in who they hire; the only way to cure the bias is with quotas. That explains why “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” an anti-quota philosophy, is microaggressive. But … if you hired a women and emphasized that you don’t necessarily think the most qualified person should get the job, wouldn’t that be microaggressive? Show of hands, ladies: Who wouldn’t be insulted at being told by your new boss that you were brought on in the name of “social justice,” not because you were the best candidate who applied?
I like this too, from the “pathologizing cultural values/communication styles” section:
Encouraging Asians, Latinos, and Native Americans to speak up more in class seems much closer to fulfilling the goals of campus diversity than “respecting their cultural silence” or whatever. If anything, it seems microaggressive to assume Asians, Latinos, and Native Americans would be disinclined to speak up in the first place. The funniest one, though, is the bit about blacks speaking too loudly because of “cultural baggage,” and that asking them to lower their voice shows no “room for difference.” It’s always racist to think a guy who’s speaking at volume nine when the environment calls for three or four should pipe down? Or is this just U of C delicately offering whites tips on what to expect if they catch a flick at a movie theater in a black neighborhood? (That was microaggressive. Sorry.)
Eugene Volokh notes that while these aren’t hard and fast rules for faculty at U of C, they’re also lines that an untenured prof who values his job and the prospect of eventually being granted tenure might be unwilling to cross. I’d add to that that I think righties make a mistake in treating this stuff as a campus curio, something that Ivory Tower A-holes obsess over to flatter themselves about the extent of their enlightenment but which they’ll be quickly disabused of when they graduate and need to survive in the real world. Remaking “the real world” is the point here. If they spend enough time inculcating the idea that the melting pot is “microaggressive” in enough students, it’ll gradually take root among the general public. They’re playing for big stakes. They always do.
Since Janet Napolitano came up with this “microaggression” bs, it must be a lesbian thing.
Janet Napolitano. A macroagressor defining microaggression.
Yeesh.
BTTT
Failure to properly discriminate based on race is now considered the highest form of racism.
More proof that the inmates are running the asylum
Micro-aggression:
“Why can’t you read or speak English?”
For the most part, it looks to me that the list should become required speech rather than banned.
And yes, the mainstream right will not take this seriously. And it will progress into enforced no speak.
Major Micro-aggressions:
- Ronald Reagan was the greatest President of the 20th century
- My father grew up poor & made a success of himself with no government help at all
- Which is better, the AK47 or the AR15? Neither, you should have both
- Look at the knockers on that chick
- PW101 should be required for all MALE freshmen (Panty Watchers 101)
- Liberalism is mental illness
- Obama is half white
Microaggressor says “this is bulls#it”
What microaggressor means: “this is bulls#it”
Foreign studentship pay hundreds of thousands to learn this surperfilous bs?
diversity ---------- Punish White males
environment ------ Punish industry built by white males
quality ------------ Punish White males, unless thy are hot!
harassment ------- punish white males because they are not hot.
rape culture------- Punish White males without due process
income equality---Take money from white males to give to less successful non-white males
social justice ---- punish white males, unjustly!
feminism -------- punish and enslave males, especially white ones
racism ----------- punish white males
education-------- punish white males
minority--------- everyone except white males
It is a newer way to make people who disagree with liberalism to ‘just shut up”.
You aree ‘racist’, ‘homophobic’, ‘sexist’, ‘microagressive’, ‘flat-earther’, ‘bible-thumper’, etc. There are problable at least 15-20 more such term that we Conservatives are called to get us to shut up.
As for me, I am just a ‘stupid Catholic, a Papist, a mackerel snapper”, etc.. Isn’t it time, I just shut up? [Including on this forum by some freepers who claim that as a Catholic, I must be a stupid Democrat.]. I’ll have you know, my German-Catholic great-grandfather abandoned his Democrat allegiance when Wm Jennings Bryan proclaimed his monetary policy which my ancestor rejected.
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