Posted on 06/25/2021 1:36:56 PM PDT by karpov
The need to combat “microaggressions” has recently saturated America. In higher education, business, and government, programs and policies have been implemented to deal with a supposed problem that almost no one recognized until a few years ago.
Microaggressions are statements by non-minority individuals that convey racist ideas to minority hearers, thereby supporting the white power structure and harming the listeners, who become depressed at their powerlessness.
At least, that is the theory propounded by a small number of academic researchers.
The current notion that microaggressions must be dealt with by a wide-ranging policy offensive has its roots in a few of their research papers. They purport to be scientific investigations and have been almost universally accepted as having proved their claims.
However, a law review article entitled “Microaggressions, Questionable Science, and Free Speech” by professors Edward Cantu and Lee Jussim argues strongly that, as science, the microaggression research is laughably weak, the scholars behind it do not respond as scientists should when their work is questioned, and the project of trying to root out microaggressions has socially caustic and legally pernicious effects.
Cantu and Jussim begin by noting that while the original idea of microaggressions goes back to the 1970s, it remained essentially dormant until the publication of a 2007 paper by psychologist Derald Wing Sue. According to Sue, microaggressions are “brief and commonplace daily, verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults.” He stated that they are a “constant, continuing, cumulative experience” in the lives of persons of color.
After his paper came out, write Cantu and Jussim, “confirmation bias cancelled vigilance.” That is to say, so many people wanted to believe Sue that they suspended critical judgment about his work.
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Yea... Biden said he would follow the science. Most good scientists are basically skeptics..they keep using the Scientific Theory based on observations..
Micro aggressions ARE aggression.
Rather charging micro aggression is aggression.
Anyone who accuses me of micro aggression will be on the receiving end of macro aggression.
Behavioral Science in fact is not science at all. It is a bunch of frauds pushing destructive theories based on no evidence or out-right lies. It is a political control apparatus that has poisoned our society with crackpot ideas. Apparently if you have a degree in Psych or some other School of Hocus Pocus you can write books about the most lunatic ideas and have them accepted by education, govt and media authorities.
Snowflakes. Abuse one today with microaggressions. Don’t stop until they melt.
All these ‘desperate to be offended’ morons can go urinate up a rope. Had enough of their idiocy.
its about speech control
the issue is never the issue....
the issue is never the issue...."
Exactly!
“Behavioral Science in fact is not science at all.”
Very true.
“It is a bunch of frauds pushing destructive theories based on no evidence or out-right lies. It is a political control apparatus that has poisoned our society with crackpot ideas. Apparently if you have a degree in Psych or some other School of Hocus Pocus you can write books about the most lunatic ideas and have them accepted by education, govt and media authorities”
Yes it is a racket. Perversion of science.
George Orwell
It takes a million microaggressions to make one whole aggression. You could pull that off in a week and a half, if you committed one every second without breaks, and your victim stuck around for it.
Behavioral “Science”
Social “Science”
Political “Science”
Climate “Science”
All of these “sciences” have one thing in common.
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