Posted on 06/11/2015 4:53:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The phrase is just one of many that faculty were advised not to use.
A University of California faculty leader-training handout instructed professors not to say that “America is the land of opportunity” because that’s a racist, sexist microaggression.
According to the handout, called “Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages they Send,” the statement “assert[s] that race and gender [do] not play a role in life successes” — despite the fact that saying opportunities exist and saying that opportunities are more easily attainable for some people than others are not mutually exclusive assertions.
Other microaggressions listed on the document include asking, “Where are you from or where were you born?” (because it suggests that the person you’re asking is “not a true American”); asking a post-doctoral minority student whether he or she is lost in the halls of a chemistry building (because it makes ”the assumption that the person is trying to break into one of the labs”); and having students fill out forms on which they have to check a box indicating whether they’re male or female.
Another handout, called “Tool for Identifying Implicit Bias: Awareness of Common Shortcuts,” listed some no-nos for conducting a job search, including “expecting candidates to resemble someone whom the search committee is replacing” — despite the fact that looking to replace an employee with a similar employee seems pretty logical given the fact that the replacement by definition would be doing the same kind of work.
According to the university’s webpage, the seminars were initiated by UC president and former Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano. Napolitano’s invitation touted them as a place to talk about the “best way to build and nurture a productive academic climate” and help attendees meet their “responsibility” to do so.
Napolitano’s invitation, dated last January, announced that the seminars would be offered at all ten UC system schools, but an article posted Wednesday on the College Fix states that they were held at only nine of the ten campuses throughout the 2014–15 school year.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
I’m so effing sick of this crap...
Time to start handing out some macroagression.
So am I! Now-what are we going to do about it? I certainly don’t have any ideas…….
How did we win World War II?
After all, I'm in a minority political party...
so if America is not the land of opportunity, why would all these people be streaming in?
Cultural Marxism had not taken control.
One Billion Percent Correct
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Let that sink in for a moment. I think the word alone, microaggression, should mean we shouldn't give one iota of thought to it. Meanwhile, the left, as they're wont to do, has turned a seemingly benign portmanteau into the newest negative in the liberal zeitgeist.
“so if America is not the land of opportunity, why would all these people be streaming in?”
Gibsmedats
Is there any way to get California to secede?
Is it considered a “microaggression” if I say these people are f-—ed in the head?
I simply don’t recognize the concept of micro-aggression. The words of the left are gibberish and have no meaning.
America is the land of opportunity...if you choose for it to be.
Sometimes I think it’s a shame the founding fathers did not include an Section in the Constitution which provides for kicking states out of the country:
“Whenever a two-thirds majority of the Legislatures of the several States decides that a particular State has become an undue burden on the nation as a whole; or that a particular State has become over-run with a—holes; said state shall be immediately stripped of its representation in Congress, and shall be removed from the United States, by force if necessary. In the event the sitting President is a resident of said particular State, he shall be immediately removed from office, and the Vice President shal take hi place”.
http://bringmethenews.com/2014/09/24/stressed-by-college-tell-the-therapy-chicken-about-it/
If I get too stressed by all the white privilege out there, I can always tell my therapy chicken. If that doesn't work, I can always have fried chicken.
For microaggressions there must be micropenalties. How about having to write on the board 10 times “I will be a good little wimp-a$$ liberal”
It’s from a university. Did they even have any clothes on during “class”?
Okay, I’ve just started hearing this term within the past few weeks. Somebody help me out here: What exactly is the definition of “Microaggression?”
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