Posted on 04/08/2015 1:25:32 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing an opinion piece to Michigan State Universitys 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
I would tell him to grow a pair, but he might misinterpret that to mean breasts.
There are a bunch of these micro what evers, according to Wikipedia:
According to Sue et al.,[10] microaggressions seem to appear in four forms:
microassault: an explicit racial derogation; verbal/nonverbal; e.g.: name-calling, avoidant behavior, purposeful discriminatory actions.
microinsult: communications that convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person’s racial heritage or identity; subtle snubs; unknown to the perpetrator; hidden insulting message to the recipient of color.
microinvalidation: communications that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person belonging to a particular group.
microrape: Characterized by predatory non-physical prurient communications with the intent to penetrate the victim’s emotional security on the basis of heteronormative impositions.[11]
Oh, if there can be microaggression there can also be macroaggression.
“They definitely should NOT reproduce.”
But they do:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RBqjZ0KZCa0?showinfo=0&rel=0&hd=0
Neither won in the district I live in. I don’t really count Al Franken because he so obviously cheated. Thousands of missing ballots keep mysteriously showing up, and mostly for Franken? Norm Coleman clearly won, but Franken will cheat and cheat until he decides to retire.
I’ll give you Jesse, but when he ran he was much less crazy and bizarre than he is now-the most wacko comment was about the streets in St. Paul being designed by drunken Irishmen. Now...I wonder if dementia isn’t setting in.
What in the world are “the vapors”?
Ain’t it the truth.
They have “white envy”.
When women would get faint, they would say they have the vapors.
“patriarchy, heteronormativity, cissexism, ableism”
I’m privileged with whatthehellisthatism
Points taken. I can’t say too much. I live in Floriduh!
So now we have unintentional micro aggressions, AKA Breathing While White.
Thank you! Learned something today besides cissexism ;-)
Rashad the Simpering Faggot will never be called upon to defend anything.
I know a few young Soldiers ... I’m not worried about them failing this Great Republic. I’m worried about the Simpering Faggots in the 0bama Regime failing them.
Poor dears have weak constitutions, there I go again, I used that offensive “c” word. They might even hear, *gasp*, opinions which with they disagree! They might even see a straight white guy! Quick, spineless children to the rubber rooms and pet the stuffed toys and color the coloring books (yes, the sky can be pink or green or any color)
breathe! breathe!
-PJ
LOL!
Back in the ancient days of old (when I was a college student), someone like Rashad the Effeminate Sodomite wouldn’t have existed. But if somehow it had existed, we would have mocked, jeered and derided it mercilessly.
I suppose telling him to “man up” is out of the question.
I noticed most of the comments at the MS newspaper were highly critical of poor Rashad. Nobody likes a grown up baby. I’ll give him credit..he’s knows the jargon. He’ll go far...I hope far away from the U.S.
I’m in a safe place.... I have my Starbucks.... I have my stuffed bear.... I have my Rainbow Bright nonjudgmental coloring books.... I’m rocking myself back and forth.... I’m in a safe place.... safe place.... Ted Cruz cannot hurt me here.... safe place.
- 20 year old American college student
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