Posted on 08/21/2015 11:12:08 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Back in the day, when bosses and CEOs got a little too attentive to detail, we would wryly note that they were “micromanaging.” Today, students actually want university administrators to micromanage free speech, putting the First Amendment at risk.
“Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt write in the latest issue of The Atlantic. “Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American ‘Where were you born?,’ because this implies that he or she is not a real American. Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might ‘trigger’ a recurrence of past trauma.”
Lukianoff is the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Haidt is a psychologist at NYU.
“Some recent campus actions border on the surreal,” Lukianoff and Haidt point out. “In April, at Brandeis University, the Asian American student association sought to raise awareness of microaggressions against Asians through an installation on the steps of an academic hall. The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as ‘Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?’ and ‘I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.’ But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was ‘triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.’”
We were a better society when “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” was the rule of the day.
I am triggered by SJW thought police trying to mark their territory with verbal spew.
Orwell was a prophet.
I’m constantly amazed at how many complete f***ing idiots there are in the world.
afraid that went the way of “beggars can’t be choosers.” People beg and choose all the time....
If our founding fathers were alive today...
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...they would not be able to figure out what the f--- this guy was saying...
Just bubble wrap the little dears since they fear so much the marketplace of ideas.
That is the history of man and Plato noted that there were only a very *few* who would be able to leave the Cave. History has always been about a few individuals who can lead the masses.
Controlling Words and Language (Rhetoric) (Wittgenstein) determines what the masses will believe. We have had a monolithic control in the West of ideas, since John Dewey and the elites took over the APs, Hollywood, textbooks and publishing companies and the major universities.
He who controls the Words, controls the Masses. It is why allowing the irrational term, homosexual “marriage”, became a reality——the irrational concept was repeated over and over, again-—mostly to children for “Pride” Days in anal sex in the classroom to destroy and demonize Individualism/Christianity——to normalize the behavior of sodomy like in Afghanistan, and make it “rational” which it is NOT-—just like “snow is black”— Fichte from 1810—to make children so irrational, and dumb, they will believe whatever the State (judges) declare.
We have removed Common Sense (Natural Law Theory) from schools (Classical Education) and replaced it with Marxist lies and misinformation for the NWO.....of idiots. (non-thinking, interchangeable drones who believe whatever irrational concept the Leftists put out —like Jenner is a “woman”. It is complete denial of Reason and ejection of Natural Law (embrace of irrational Marxist/Eastern philosophies).
The very removal of Western Civ out of the West for tribalism/collectivism/socialism. The removal of Individualism and Natural Rights from God only (Christian Philosophy) (”God is Dead” Nietzsche-—so State is now god and dictates “good and evil”.)
Liberals are learning from Islam.
The line between speech and “violence” is blurred, where asking someone to read a book or debate a topic or questioning a woman in a Title 9 rape hearing are considered akin to actual assaults.
Now you can react to debate as if physically attacked, and it becomes acceptable to use physical violence against those who disagree or challenge your worldview.
that’s the closest thing I’ve heard to new poetry in years.
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