Posted on 01/05/2015 12:50:21 PM PST by rightistight
In an article called “The history of “wh”: a microaggression,” a Princeton student has called out those who question his pronunciation of “cool whip” as offensive and perpetrators of a microaggression.
The piece was written by “Newby Patton,” who is listed as a Contributing Columnist by the paper.
In “The History of ‘wh,'” Patton explains the pain he has gone through during his life when people notice that he pronounces “wh” with a heavy “h” sound.
He never questioned how he pronounced “wh” before he came to college. Now, according to Patton, he is being mercilessly mocked by class students.
“My peers make a spectacle of it,” Patton painfully recounts. “‘Say Cool Whip,’ they’ll tell me… I’ll say ‘Cool Whip.’ They’ll repeat it back to me with exaggerated emphasis on the /h/. I’ve been pulled into this conversation several times now, and each time I grow a bit more self-conscious.”
At first Patton thought it was okay because he is a white male and because he is a white male he “gets less than my fair share of discrimination.” But then he realized that he was suffering from microaggression.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
Cool hwip. That’s mighty hwite of him, haha.
So imitating or noticing any regional accent is microaggression? I guess a lot of silly jokes are now off limits.
As I recall, anything now described as micro aggression used to be described as “no big deal.”
I did not know that. The local stations here play the entire song.
When Civilization finally collapses under the weight of our current, unsustainable system and we enter the new Dark Ages, these kids will be out trying to find food and shelter, and defend themselves from real aggression, and all this nonsense would go away.
Yeah, so what are you going to do about it, cupcake?
Devo “Whip It”
In his original piece, he knows that it comes from Family Guy. However, he’s apparently trying to show that he stands with those who feel that they endure microaggressions several times every day. He wants to make it up to those to whom he has micro-aggressed.
http://dailyprincetonian.com/opinion/2015/01/the-history-of-wh-a-microaggression/
They’re going bonkers. This is almost as interesting as this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3243442/posts
What a maroon.
The author is doing an excellent job of poking fun at the whole thing. Deliberately or otherwise.
>>have you #flexedyourmicroagression lately?
No, but I do try to #makemicromacro
I think he may be suffering from micro-strokes.
i think this is the funniest use of h before w... at the 4:45 mark... the whole skit is funny... stand-up comedian, T-Rexx: Spooby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-FKWFVGDg
Hey, Newby:
Go blame your pedophile-pushing, commie-loving liberal demigod Seth McFarlane. People are yanking your chain because you’re a weenie, not because you’re black or gay or whatever victim status you’re claiming.
Somebody really did think up a Cool Whip joke & later it was used as a prank. Truth is always stranger than fiction.
Trying hard to maintain my half a brain that remains. Daily use of bourbon to lubricate & preserve it is essential.
;^)
If he’s from Tennessee, I can just hear it: KOO-wel Hwee-yup.
Sort of like fluoride. Dump it in a river, go to jail.
Dump it in the drinking water, “It’s for the children.”
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