Posted on 04/08/2015 1:25:32 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing an opinion piece to Michigan State University’s paper the State News, Rashad Timmons says that microaggressions are causing him several medical afflictions. His letter was titled, “Intentional or not, microaggressions severely impact underrepresented members of society.”
According to Timmons, people who “are not privileged” are suffering greatly from the intentional and unintentional triggers that others are causing. “On a campus,” he writes, ” — and nation at large — in which whiteness, patriarchy, heteronormativity, cissexism, ableism and classism prevail, students that are not privileged by these constructs often have difficulty navigating hegemonic, oppressive environments.”
Timmons writes about different maladies that have come about because of these microaggressions.
He writes that some people have “pressure in the chest” after a microaggression. “It leads you,” he explains with specificity, “to the public restroom on the second floor — too much traffic on the first — of some indiscriminate building that you stumbled into only out of proximity and the immediate need for safety and silence."
...White people, straight people, males, people who are not disabled, those who identify as their birth sex, and those who are not poor must check their “privilege,” Timmons explains.
“To do this,” he concludes, “we must understand and be accountable for our privilege. We must be willing to address the uncomfortable in a wholly racialized, politicized and sexualized society to create safer spaces for all to exist and thrive in.”
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LOL... that is funny...
When did Charles Schulz did that strip?
He probably did not do that strip.
The more frail and side lined the self afflicted, abnormal commies make themselves, the safer the normals are.
We owe the Chinese all our money anyway.
College is not for everyone.
The proper response to "check your privilege".
...or else, "Check your neuroses."
Cheers!
Nothing worse than a whining Pussy, but enough about Obama.
Of course, Gulliver (Dean Swift) does describe an academy where similar lunacy prevails in Gulliver's Third Voyage.
Can you imagine regular folks living under tremendous strain and hardship in places like Syria or many African countries having to listen to the complaints of this idiot? They would probably slap him silly (or laugh uncontrollably).
and he would curl up in a ball crying and calling out to his lawyers and nannies to make it all better.
You make jest , but believe it that the greatest goal of angry minorities is to round up white people and put them in death camps.
I lived in San Francisco. I have heard this first hand.
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