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Princeton Columnist: Criticizing How I Say “Cool Whip” is a “Microaggression”
Pundit Press ^ | 1/5/15 | Aurelius

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.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: college; microaggression; princeton; satire
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To: rightistight

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.


41 posted on 01/05/2015 1:28:38 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rightistight

As I recall, anything now described as micro aggression used to be described as “no big deal.”


42 posted on 01/05/2015 1:29:15 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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To: afsnco

I did not know that. The local stations here play the entire song.


43 posted on 01/05/2015 1:38:37 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: rightistight

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.


44 posted on 01/05/2015 1:39:30 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: rightistight
I had to put up with getting mocked for trivial things like how I dressed or talked since kindergarten.
Then I learned to ignore the bullies.
How come this guy never learned that?
Instead he's learning hypersensitivity and it will not serve him well.


45 posted on 01/05/2015 1:39:59 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: rightistight

Yeah, so what are you going to do about it, cupcake?


46 posted on 01/05/2015 1:40:48 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Devo “Whip It”


Times have changed, when I was in school, we used to joke that we’d been “whipping it” for years, why did Devo make a fortune, from it? I guess today, that would be “Macroagression” ?


47 posted on 01/05/2015 1:42:53 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: colorado tanker

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/


48 posted on 01/05/2015 1:43:10 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: gdani
It was funnier when “Family Guy” did it.

That was my first thought too. Is this art imitating life or vice versa?
49 posted on 01/05/2015 1:43:14 PM PST by 762X51
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To: rightistight

They’re going bonkers. This is almost as interesting as this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3243442/posts


50 posted on 01/05/2015 1:44:02 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: rightistight
because he is a white male he “gets less than my fair share of discrimination.”

What a maroon.

51 posted on 01/05/2015 1:50:36 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: FamiliarFace

52 posted on 01/05/2015 1:53:48 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: rightistight

The author is doing an excellent job of poking fun at the whole thing. Deliberately or otherwise.


53 posted on 01/05/2015 1:55:34 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

>>have you #flexedyourmicroagression lately?

No, but I do try to #makemicromacro


54 posted on 01/05/2015 2:09:00 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: rightistight

I think he may be suffering from micro-strokes.


55 posted on 01/05/2015 2:19:46 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: gdani; KarlInOhio; Cowboy Bob; 762X51

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


56 posted on 01/05/2015 2:33:22 PM PST by latina4dubya (wheni have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: rightistight

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.


57 posted on 01/05/2015 2:33:52 PM PST by dangus
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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.

;^)


58 posted on 01/05/2015 2:43:15 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: rightistight

If he’s from Tennessee, I can just hear it: KOO-wel Hwee-yup.


59 posted on 01/05/2015 3:13:08 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Calvin Locke

Sort of like fluoride. Dump it in a river, go to jail.

Dump it in the drinking water, “It’s for the children.”


60 posted on 01/05/2015 3:16:53 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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