Posted on 03/26/2015 10:06:43 AM PDT by rightistight
Ithaca College Student Government Association is creating an online system which it claims will give students the ability to “report microaggressions.” It believes the action will “make Ithaca College a safer, more inclusive and diverse community for all students.”
The system will be online and will fill the needs of students, the Student Government Association believes. It will also be anonymous.
However, Kyle James, vice president of communications and co-sponsor of the bill, states that if a student who has been subject to microaggression wants to sue the “aggressor,” they’ll have to “reveal their identity.”
The system will also track who is reporting the microaggression and how they believe they were insulted.
Junior Elijah Breton, senator for the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, supports the bill, saying, “Just like any other resolution that we want to pass with microaggression and diversity in the institution, what it does is it helps to make people think a little more before they do or say something.”
Sophomore Joshua Kelly, senator-at-large, was the only vote in the Student Government against the bill. He said he was dismayed at talk of suing people over microaggressions.
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“Isn’t it a bit micro-passive/aggressive to report rather than confront microagression?”
Depends on the political standing of those involved.
Nazi like
I could be wrong, but there is a lot of behavior that the left classifies a micro-aggression (such as the normal way a man sits in a subway car) that is different from being a loud-mouthed jerk.
The problem is that we don’t have a polite society anymore. Even the most polite attempt to ask a stranger to do something, such as making room to let people pass by, is often met with hostility.
We need an on campus FReep ASAP. Think of the lawsuit opportunities. We could get rich off these kinds of civil rights violations!
Is it any surprise that the Left is in total alignment with Islam on the 1st Amendment?
We’ve been living through 1984 for some time now.
“microagressions” should engender microsuits and get microdamages.
Every day in every way, liberals prove they are insane.
Look how well it worked in East Germany.
To answer your question, you must also understand that there is a protected class (oppressed class) and a privileged class (white males in particular). Only victims who are members of the protected class can sue since they are the ones who face microagressions from the privileged class.
In your example the atheist is a member of the protect class and as a victim can sue; the Christian, a member of the privileged class cannot.
Yes, it certainly is.
The way to deal with something like this is to go Alinsky back on the Alinskyites. They’ve created a system for capturing microaggression, so make them play by their own rules and flood the system with reports.
My first thought too. Is a stupid policy a micro aggression against someone with common sense?
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!!!
By definition wouldn’t microagression lead to micro-guilt and micro-consequences?
Wait until they institute sharia law.
Not in the least, both demand strict compliance with their beliefs.
If justice is served, a lot of professors are going to be in the hot seat!
Of course, not being aware of your microagression is no defense. You may not be aware that your eyes moved up 2.3 degrees when the prof mentioned gay rights! That is a microagression!
Did you breathe too much when they talked about abortion? That’ll get you expelled and fined.
Will there be “microrapes” too when a man asks a woman out?
Your examples are absurd - and they are just the sort of things that this policy might try to punish. Absurdity and reality have become one and the same up in Ithaca.
If we can find a way to unleash political correctness on the middle east, we would destroy Islam. Of course, we would still be stuck with commies.
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