Posted on 11/12/2015 2:00:16 PM PST by SkyPilot
Students listen as the USC Student Government votes Tuesday on a resolution to increase diversity. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
USC junior Vanessa Diaz was raised in Dallas. But at a party two years ago, she was asked if she could speak English. When Diaz became offended, the other student tried to pass off the question as a joke. But it did not amuse her, any more than the idea of Mexican-themed parties on Greek Row featuring students in sombreros and fake mustaches.
Quote - Because of the society we live in, it's not OK to be overtly racist, but that doesn't mean everything is OK, Diaz said - Unquote.
Some call it the new face of racism, not the blatant acts of bias that recently led to the University of Missouri's campus unrest and resignation of the president and chancellor.
Instead, a phenomenon known as microaggression, everyday slights and snubs, sometimes unintentional — is drawing widespread attention across college campuses and kicking up a debate about social justice and free speech rights.
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Books are heavy. Some words are big. People are mean.
Wow. What a bunch of squish kids are today. Juvenile deliquescents.
I felt marginalized.
Then I just kicked the shiite out of that little old lady.
When it was all over, I learned that she is mostly blind and squints at everyone.
Cured her of that squinting habit.
;-)
I used to live in South Florida. One day I walked into my bank and up to the counter. The teller started speaking to me in Spanish. Was that a microaggression?
I was vacationing in Tampa and went to a KFC and went in to order. All the employees and customers were black. The workers completely ignored me and I eventually left. Was that a microaggression?
One time I was walking a couple of blocks from my apartment to the store and a black guy on a bike tried to steal my purse. Another microaggression?
Sick of this crap.
“Instead, a phenomenon known as microaggression, everyday slights and snubs, sometimes unintentional  is drawing widespread attention across college campuses and kicking up a debate about social justice and free speech rights.”
This getting to be too damn good. These fools do not have objective events to complain about, so they turn to their perverted little imaginations in order to claim victim status.
Because the old shakedown wasn't giving us enough free stuff!
By the way, the combined SAT score of the Mizzou (what a ridiculously stupid moniker) is probably less than 1000. What scholars of academia!
Microaggression Ping
The descent into madness is accelerating.
If these bastards really want to know what real aggressive persecution is, ask an Orthodox Jew or a Christian.
Why doesn’t she answer the question, in English if she can?
Not as important, of course, as a Halloween costume or a shop clerk's suspicious glance, but perhaps worthy of some consideration during our latest national emotional breakdown.
Oh, she’s so offended....SFW?
Get some skin Baby . . . who wants a paranoid, angry whiner like you?
I think this is Hillary/Obama campaign strategy. This is a stir up the mob strategy we’ve seen before. These are beginning to get more and more sophisticated.
Want to see how quickly these athletes turn against this fustercluck? Tell them any money the school uses for football will be moved over to diversity studies.
Good luck in world of work kids.
-PJ
What a bunch of self-absorbed pansies.
Would Greeks have the right to be offended? Aren't Frats and Sororities misappropriating their alphabets and using it as cover to drink excessively and even have illicit sex?
Would Italians have the right to be offended at toga parties?
Would people of English ancestry have the right to be offended at a party where people dress up as Jane Austin characters?
Would someone of xxxx ancestry feel snubbed if they were completely ignored by these various party themes? Notice I didn't say xxx, since it plays such a prominent role in parties.
Get a life, people!
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
The same thing happened to me at a KFC in New Jersey. I told my wife about it. She went there the next week, and got the exact same treatment.
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