Posted on 02/03/2014 6:47:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As a group of students begins studying for a calculus exam, a white student turns to an Asian peer and says, “Hey, would you mind helping me solve this problem? It’s really difficult, but you can probably do it.” The Asian student agrees to help, but for some reason feels uncomfortable with the way the question was asked.
Is the Asian student being oversensitive? Was the white student subtly and subconsciously displaying racial prejudice against Asians? Could both be true?
According to Dr. Derald Sue, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, the Asian student may have been the victim of a microaggression — an “everyday slight, putdown, indignity, or invalidation unintentionally directed toward a marginalized group.”
Sue has been researching microaggression since 2007 and has written two books on the subject. According to him, the person delivering the microaggression often does not know he’s doing it and might even think he is complimenting the other individual....
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Psychobabble.......
Get a real job!
KYPD
So if the Asian students never ask the white students for math help; wouldn’t that then be a (bigger) putdown?!
Wow, I thought I was the only one. Now I no longer have to suffer in silence.
wouldn’t it be a compliment to assume the asian is smarter?
Does this mean that a big guy is a victim if a little old lady asks him to lift something heavy into her car?
It’s a logical extension of the feminist invention “mini-rape”. That’s what you are guilty of if you see an attractive young lady walking down the street, smile at her, and say hello. Since you wouldn’t smile and greet a man (or an ugly woman) that way, you’re gaining a form a sexual gratification from the encounter, and since she didn’t consent beforehand, it is a form of rape.
Don’t laugh. That is exactly the way it was explained to me by a 27-year-old PSU grad who I had (mistakenly) hired as an English teacher based on the theory that in order to get a Masters degree in any topic from an American University, a person would have to know English.
When I fired her less than a month after I had hired her (chronic absenteeism and tardiness) she screeched at me as a Neanderthal fascist bastard and threatened to sue. If it had been America I am sure she would have managed something, but in Japan they just laugh at you when you try that crap.
Did a little looking around for info on Dr. Derald Sue.
It’s just embarrassing how stupid our colleges have become.
This idiot ought to be dressed as a clown and forced to stand around the food court in the mall, scaring little children.
This is the kind of crap that convinces me this country is salvageable.
PIV is always rape, ok?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3108209/posts
Hey, this is Pete - You talking ta me? Are YOU TALKIN’ Ta ME??!!
“Originally coined in the 1970s by Chester Pierce, an African-American psychiatrist at Harvard, the term “microaggression” has made a comeback in recent years”
That says it all for me-—just movin’ on.
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Psychobabble. Also known as bull$hit.
We should form a support group for those of us who have to endure this microaggression of being thought of as wonderful.
That sounds like Dworkin, or MacKinnon.
It would be a small group. There just aren't many others that measure up. That's why they are micro-hating us.
I wouldn’t be offended if a black person “asked” me how to spell “ackst”.
We all know what happens to the people who cannot take a joke. Or a jab.
I understand your burden.
I like the Prime Ministers questions, that’s classic micro aggression. We’ve lost the art of obtuse insults, double entendres, and sublime ridicule.
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