Posted on 10/22/2015 2:23:53 PM PDT by MeganC
•The phrase 'politically correct' is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
•The university’s 'Just Words' campaign aims to 'raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact.'
•These microaggressions include the words: 'lame,' 'thug,' 'trash,' and 'third world.'
The phrase “politically correct” is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The university’s “Just Words” campaign is the work of UWM’s “Inclusive Excellence Center” and aims to “raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact”—microaggressions like “politically correct” or “PC.”
Merriam-Webster defines “politically correct” as “conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated.” The university, however, claims that calling something “politically correct” “has become a way to deflect, [and say] that people are being too ‘sensitive’ and police language.” “Politically correct,” moreover, is just one of a whole host of words and phrases the university has denounced as microaggressions.
The university also claims the word “lame” is a microaggression that somehow both “ridicules and ignores the lives of amputees” and therefore shouldn’t be used.
UWM also claims that using the phrase “third world” to describe third world countries is a microaggression because it “reinforces heirarchical [sic] attitudes towards nations around the world, [and] establishes Westernized (industrialized) countries and cultures as the ‘standard’ upon which to measure national well-being or economic status.”
Interestingly enough, while the university’s Inclusive Excellence Center has labeled several common-use adjectives harmful, the man running the campaign, Warren Scherer, the director of the university’s Inclusive Excellence Center, has taken to Twitter to express his displeasure with Republican presidential candidates in a non-inclusive manner.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Why not file a first amendment lawsuit against the university for even having PC word lists at all?
PC ping!
Also - raging anti-Semite alert! Warren Scherer is quite the bigot and I only hope the JDL finds out about him!
If I were a student I’d absolutely be suing them!
They are a parody of themselves.
I think the word “microagression” is a microagression! Meant to inhibit speech by people exercising common sense.
What complete bullsh*t!
I got news for UWM, the word “microaggession” is meaningless according to the First Amendment.
“Microagression” is a microaggression.
“Microagression” is a microaggression.
Newspeak.
We need clarification! we must wait for the publication of the 11th Edition of the Newspeak dictionary!
The UWM policy is so gay.
In another twenty years of liberal dominance all speech will be forbidden as racist and discriminatory.
We will only be permitted to communicate with hand signals and most of them will be banned too.
People who abuse language do so to abuse people.
“Micro-aggression”: anything that leaves or might leave a mark on a liberal’s hemophiliac-like hide
If they get their knickers in a twist over “micro-aggression”, wait until they get hit with MACRO-aggression!
I think this is a lame attempt by a trashy and thuggish third world mindset to get us to succumb to their political correct ideals. They will not impose their MACRO-aggression on me! Give me unPC or give me death!
Well now, isn't that convenient!
Calling out NewSpeak is a "Micro Aggression"
I think I'll get a baseball bat and carve on it: "That Was Just Politically Correct", and not be so Micro.
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