Posted on 09/01/2016 1:36:49 PM PDT by Lorianne
Just when you thought you had a handle on the treasonous thought-police infractions known as microagressions, folks at Rutgers University had to go ahead and further muddy the waters of what is and isn’t allowed to be uttered on today’s college campuses.
Since I know you’re all dying to find out, let’s turn to Campus Reform to learn about the latest verbal (and nonverbal) transgressions: “microassaults,” “microinsults’ & “microinvalidations”:
Students in at least one Rutgers University residence hall are being encouraged to use only language that is “helpful” and “necessary” to avoid committing microaggressions.
The display, photos of which were obtained by Campus Reform, is titled “Language Matters: Think,” and was placed in the College Avenue Apartments by a resident assistant, according to a current resident of the building who does not wish to be identified.
Erected as part of the university’s “Language Matters” campaign, the bulletin board instructs students to ask themselves whether their choice of words is “true,” “helpful,” “inspiring,” “necessary,” and “kind” before speaking out, and also includes a list of potentially-offensive terms, such as “retarded” and “illegal aliens.”
These kids are going to be in for a rude awakening, as well as possible multiple nervous breakdowns, when they enter the real world (was that a microagression, micro insult, or microassault? I’m so confused).
The board warns students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which include “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations.”
The “Language Matters” website includes a presentation similar in nature to the flyer, outlining the “big impact” of “little things” and providing examples of the three types of microaggressions.
A microassault may include “avoiding someone,” for instance, while an example of a microinsult is telling someone they are strong for a girl. A microinvalidation, meanwhile, could involve asking an Asian or Latino person where they are from.
Simply avoiding offensive language, however, is not enough according to Rutgers, which claims that microaggressions can also be “nonverbal” and “environmental,” but fails to elaborate further.
Meanwhile, let’s take a closer look at the bulletin itself. This appears to me to be more akin to how you’d communicate with preschool kids, as opposed to young adults.
Of course, it isn’t at all surprising that this emerged from Rutgers. Recall what we learned in last year’s post, Rutgers University Warns Students – “There is No Such Thing as Free Speech”:
Rutgers University students, you are being watched.
That appears to be the message a Rutgers.edu web page would like the campus community to absorb. The web page is maintained by the Bias Prevention & Education Committee, which chillingly warns students that there is “no such thing as ‘free’ speech,” and to “think before you speak.”
OK, I clicked my way through the “Prezi”. Where do I collect my “inclusivity” patch for my biker vest?
Just don’t make me sit through any more Rape Poetry. I would prefer celibacy . . .
Wow! Who woulda thunk it? More LIBeral-a** bullsh**. And to think that parents are stupid enough to support this insanity through tuition.
“Racial oppression” in the USA—someone might say something that makes snowflakes “uncomfortable”.
Racial oppression in the rest of the world—they burn down your village, kill the men and rape the women.
I’m waiting for the “micro-knockout” game.
They'll never work in the real world - they'll end up shuffling papers, stealing social security numbers and watching porn in some government job.
A guy at Rutgers, by today’s standards, would probably think that an “Ewwww, gross!” tossed at him by a desirable female would be a mega-insult.
And don’t you dare call highly intelligent, awkward students “geeks”, even if they call themselves geeks, because that would be mega-geekist, or something.
These morons are pretty much trying to stop human nature itself. Good luck with that.
AVOIDING SOMEONE is a MICROASSAULT???!?
This is pure fascism.
If I was there, they’d have to worry about my MACROassaults and MEGAagressions.
I went to Rutgers Engineering from 1977 to 1981. Okay engineering school but because they’re so leftist I’ve never given them any money. Outside of the professional schools or majors, they’re worthless
“I want to browbeat you, white boy, as an evil racist unless you apologize for existing and the sins of your ancestors.”
“You know what, just stay away from me.”
“That’s a micro-assault! On top of micro-aggressing for not agreeing with me! Evil racist!”
The liberal wing is equating words with actions, expressing dissenting opinions equivalent to attacking the person the first person disagreed with.
This is enabling fascist tactics - “he disagreed with me and won’t apologize, so I’m justified in hitting him, since he hated at me with words first!”
This immoral world view allows someone to justify violence because anything other than wholesale endorsement of their opinions is seen as an attack.
Liberals picked this up from Muslims, that criticism is equal to violence, so you can kill the critic.
Rutgers admin surrenders to micro insult suppression by macro-totalitarian juvenile rabble. They should read Alinsk’s Rules for Radicals, it’s always only the struggle.
Next week these same yayhoos will demand that nano-insults and aggressions be banned and said aggressors face kangaroo courts (extra legal). Such nano-aggression might be something on the order of a male white appropriating a protected class memembers oxygen and exhaling that vile noxious global warming gas, gasp!, carbon dioxide in a blatant display of white privilege.
Up against the wall mofo!
#3 Drango: You beat me to it. I was thinking of “microfarting” as a way to reply to this PC crap.
Could use stealth technology (SBD - Silent But Deadly) after eating burritos and baked beans.
Rutgers continues it descent as a Marxist, PC, liberal ahole dominated university. So sad but the Left is better organized, better funded, and more thuggish than the regular student or teacher so “Might Makes Right” at Rutgers.
So does “STUPIDITY” (as in their BS degree).
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