Posted on 12/24/2014 7:50:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There are almost too many to choose from, but here are eleven of the most politically correct moments on college campuses in 2014:
In December, Princeton students relaunched Tiger Microaggressions, a service that takes other students reports of microaggressions and publishes them on its Facebook page. According to the operators, absolutely anything can qualify as a microaggression since there are no objective definitions to words and phrases.
In August, college students invented a nail polish that changes color if it comes into contact with date-rape drugs only to incite rage from feminists who insist that anything that might help women protect themselves actually promotes rape culture by acknowledging that we live in a world where rapes happen. (FYI: We do.) Or, as feminist activist Rebecca Nagle eloquently put it: I dont want to f[***]ing test my drink when Im at the bar. . . . Thats not the world I want to live in. The fact that fear of whether or not someone could be wearing the polish might deter potential rapists from drugging womens drinks (whether or not they themselves were actually testing their f***ing drinks or not) was not addressed.
In October, an Arizona State University rally against rape culture was slammed for promoting rape culture because it encouraged men to respect women and respect for women should be a given and not have to be encouraged. Come on, you guys!
Oops. I guess I accidentally oppressed some people with the way I ended No. 3 at least according to the More Than Words: Inclusive Language Campaign launched at Macalester College this past summer. It included videos featuring student explanations and posters covering the campus walls that dispensed politically correct instructions such as telling students to stop using words such as crazy or derp and replace them with person with a mental health condition or person with a learning or cognitive disability (even though those arguably kind of maybe sound even more offensive.)
I thought hed do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man there, the anonymous student behind the so-called Campaign to Abstain at the all-womens Wellesley College said.
In November, Elon University instructed its orientation officers to use the term first-year instead of freshman because the term freshman is sexist and actually suggests that women might make good rape victims.
In June, more than 700 students, professors, and faculty at the University of Minnesota ordered the school to admit its just a product of the evil actions of colonial Americans and must fundamentally alter its structure to make it up to marginalized communities starting with forcing all students to take a transgender-sensitivity class.
In September, the student editorial board at the University of Oklahoma wrote an article all about how bras are racist because they come in colors named nude and not everyone is that color when theyre nude. They also said that Band Aids were an example of white privilege.
A sorority at California State University, Fullerton, got in serious trouble in September for hosting a Taco Tuesday event because some attendees wore culturally insensitive attire (read: sombreros and mustaches.). A similar thing happened in April at Dartmouth University, where backlash forced a fraternity to cancel a fundraiser yes, fundraiser for cardiac patients because one student complained that the fiesta theme was offensive. Although the fraternity was careful to warn students to definitely not wear sombreros to the event, they did plan to serve virgin frozen drinks, salsa, guacamole, and gasp! burritos, so apparently Mexican food is offensive in itself.
In May, the student government at the University of California, Irvine, demanded that the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity be punished because they hosted a fundraiser yes, again, fundraiser where students wore grass skirts and coconut bras. Thats apparently racist against Pacific Islanders. A group of students even released a statement that said stuff like tell members of your organization to stop wearing our traditional/cultural attires, they dont know jack s[***] about its cultural significance.
The schools dining services also planned to remove the labels from all of the existing machines just to make sure no student has to see one and be traumatized. But to end the year on a good note: At the request of the university president, the school is reconsidering its decision.
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And for THIS they go to College????????
What in the name of Sweet Fannie Flagg is a “microaggression”???
Isn’t accusing someone of a microaggression a microaggression?
RE: And for THIS they go to College????????
Yes, and pay $30,000 a year in tuition.
And pay tens of thousands of dollars.... Well over six figures for ivy league schools.
Beige privilege. Band Aids are not anywhere near a shade of skin tone associated with white people.
RE: They also said that Band Aids were an example of white privilege.
They should color them black, or yellow or red or brown... that’ll make it diverse.
I would like to invite all these liberal PC wussies to the front line to fight ISIS. They need a dose of the real world.
Parents mortgage their homes, and work all their lives to provide their children into the machine that is called “Higher Education”.
It is not new. My next door neighbor went to UMass Amhearst for ONE YEAR, and turned from a nice Christian girl into a raving communist.
And this was in 1970.
Oberlin College Students want to suspend final exams and opt out of failing grades because they’ve spent too much time protesting. They are traumatized.
https://www.google.com/search?q=oberlin+college&num=100&safe=off&hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=nws&oq=&gs_l=
Horrible. It is a betrayal of our country, our Culture, Our Republic, and our Religious Freedom.
I am so glad i quit school in 1971 and taught myself what i needed to know.
Band aids? Band aids?
Now there is some reasoning for you
I think it was a white man who invented them...something to do with a book I read called “Crazy Rich”, as I remember they went into medical supplies, and it seems band aids came out of that....maybe “Johnson and Johnson”??
Band aids? Band aids?
Now there is some reasoning for you
I think it was a white man who invented them...something to do with a book I read called “Crazy Rich”, as I remember they went into medical supplies, and it seems band aids came out of that....maybe “Johnson and Johnson”??
A microaggression is when someone says or does something that isn’t remotely offensive or aggressive, but which those who so dearly want to be offended can through some grotesque manipulations pretend to have bothered them.
In other words, butthurt...
Being a white, specifically a heterosexual white male. Your white skin is micro-aggressing minorities just by existing.
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