Dictionary.com Adds "Microaggression," "Gender-Fluid" to Definitions

Pundit Press ^ | 5/8/15 | Aurelius

[al baby]

Good Lord stop this thing I want off

[PapaBear3625]

Note carefully the definition of microaggression:

“Microaggression: a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype.

It explicitly defines the act so that only "minorities or other nondominant groups" can be victims, much like "racism" is defined so that racism against whites is not really "racism".

[dfwgator]

Control the language and you control the mind.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Note that it isn’t possible, under these daffynitions, to “microaggress” a person of the majority (an oxymoron of itself, because each person is obviously a minority).

In purportedly decrying crude tribalism, these liberals simply affirm it more strongly. Are they pledged to stop when the majority tribe du jour ceases to be so? (I thought not....)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Question begging, of course, but again it is so WHITE to use logic.

[cardinal4]

How can anyone be ambiguous about gender?

[ChildOfThe60s]

The English language in Looking Glass Land meets Idiocracy.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Determined minds can still bust out of these shackles. There always is a saner time and frame of reference.

[MrB]

How about those insane “cis” terms that the freaks invented to avoid saying that normal people are normal?

[HiTech RedNeck]

By purposing it, perversely

[dfwgator]

But the masses will fall into line. There will always be free-thinkers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the masses are evangelized on God and not folly, they will rebel.

[Leep]

Microagression is replacing the word racism? Now you accuse people of microagression and everyone has to be sensitive to your perceived slight(s)
Accusing everyone and everything of racism, real or imagined but mostly imagined, was wearing thin.

When a white women got in an elevated, with several black men, she supposedly clutch her purse and was fearful. That would have been a act of microagression?

[Leep]

elevated = elevator

[alexander_busek]

“Microaggression: a subtle but offensive comment or action directed at a minority or other nondominant group that is often unintentional or unconsciously reinforces a stereotype.

Waiting for someone to explain to me how something can be simultaneously "directed" and yet "unintentional" in 3... 2... 1...

Also: What is it then called when the roles are reversed and the person making the "offensive" comment belongs to the minority or non-dominant group and the "offended person" belongs to the majority or dominant group? Reparations?

Regards,

[moovova]

“gender-fluid”

Sounds like something you’d need a wet washcloth to clean up...

[MeshugeMikey]

imagine { if you will ] what happens when microagression and gender fluid combine....

[moovova]

We might be premature in our assumptions.

;-)

[MeshugeMikey]

when will the terms Genderaggression and microfluid..be added to said dictionary??

has the term OBIE...been added YET??