Posted on 06/15/2015 11:38:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
The political left has come up with a new buzzword: "micro-aggression."
Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? Because this is considered to be an act of "micro-aggression" against minorities and women. Supposedly it shows that you don't take their grievances seriously and are therefore guilty of being aggressive toward them, even if only on a micro scale.
You might think that this is just another crazy idea from Berkeley. But the same concept appears in a report from the flagship campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana. If you just sit in a room where all the people are white, you are considered to be guilty of "micro-aggression" against people who are not white, who will supposedly feel uncomfortable when they enter such a room.
At UCLA, a professor who changed the capitalization of the word "indigenous" to lower case in a student's dissertation was accused of "micro-aggression," apparently because he preferred to follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style, rather than the student's attempt to enhance the importance of being indigenous.
When a group of UCLA law students came to class wearing T-shirts with a picture of one of their professors who had organized an intramural softball game, those T-shirts were protested as a manifestation of "white privilege."
Why? Because that professor had written a book critical of affirmative action.
"Micro-aggression" protests have spread to campuses from coast to coast — that is, from California's Berkeley and UCLA to Harvard and Fordham on the east coast, and including Oberlin and Illinois in the midwest.
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Pettiness on whose part?
“...warned against saying such things as “America is the land of opportunity.” Why? Because this is considered to be an act of “micro-aggression” against minorities and women...”
OK
Then all those illegal creeps coming up here for ‘opportunity’ can just turn their greedy, lliterate, criminal, diseased as%es around and go BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM!!
I am Black, I am not an adjective.
While you may not be an adjective, the word "black" is, just as the word "white" is. You are wrong.
You must not have paid attention in 5th. grade English class, did you?
When I saw 'Micro-totalitarianism' in the headline I knew I was gonna love this... thanks for the post jaz.
5th Grade is Graduate Level! And for Whites only.
Don dis me
Most welcome, FRiend. I love these pieces where Dr. Sowell rips into these leftists.
If I smashed my clenched fist in their faces, would that be considered a MACRO aggression?
Homeschooling....proper adjectives are capitalized like proper nouns. The question here is.....is the term black used as a proper adjective or a common adjective.
Hispanic male would be capitalized. Black male, like African American, is a proper term still? Police use it certainly.
IMHO, the left has reached too far. The micro-aggressive shark has been jumped.
I’d like to micro-aggress my foot into their butts. Idiots.
F with my 1st Amendment rights and I’ll introduce you to my 2nd Amendment rights.
The irony is they were all “free speech” radicals in the 1960’s. Live by liberalism, die by liberalism.
Bump
Anyone accusing me of “micro-aggression” will be treated to a free dose of macro-aggression.
This one’s not Sowell but you’ll love it - AND it’s not posted yet...
Have you seen this one... it’s the best slam on Hillary Clinton - and no one’s posted it yet...
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/15/the-kick-off-hillary-clinton-the-bogus-womens-advocate/
“Hillary Clinton is an advocate for women as long as you are not one of Bill Clinton’s rape victims, girlfriends or Vince Foster’s widow. If you were a woman who was one of Bill’s serial sexual assault victims you were vilified as a “slut,” “whore,” “bitch,” or “trash” by Hillary Clinton. There is also solid evidence that it was Hillary who engaged the heavy-handed private detectives who terrorized and silenced Bill’s victims lest they retard the Clintons’ grasp for power.
Hillary’s newfound advocacy for children probably does not include the 18 children murdered by federal agents in Waco Texas. Hillary Clinton’s handpicked Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell entered the command center to convey Hillary’s “go order.” The investigator for the House Committee that investigated the Waco incident wrote that Hillary Clinton had given the final order. Senator Arlen Specter who chaired a Senate investigation into the Waco killings said there was substantial testimony proving that Hillary Clinton, acting as a virtual co-president at that time, gave the order that resulted in the deaths of 18 children. Most of the victims of Hillary’s tragic command to begin the final assault on the Branch Davidians were women and children. Of the 76 people who were murdered at Waco on April 19, 1993, 46 were females, 28 were males and 2 were babies in the womb. Thirty people were under the age of 21 years; an astounding eighteen of the dead were children who were 8 years old or younger.”
more at link
I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if Hillary was involved up to her eyeballs in the Branch Davidian fiasco and murder of many innocents. She was in a position to have input while having deniability if anything was said about her, that’s her pathetic MO.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/15/the-kick-off-hillary-clinton-the-bogus-womens-advocate/
Hillary’s newfound advocacy for children probably does not include the 18 children murdered by federal agents in Waco Texas. Hillary Clinton’s handpicked Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell entered the command center to convey Hillary’s “go order.” The investigator for the House Committee that investigated the Waco incident wrote that Hillary Clinton had given the final order. Senator Arlen Specter who chaired a Senate investigation into the Waco killings said there was substantial testimony proving that Hillary Clinton, acting as a virtual co-president at that time, gave the order that resulted in the deaths of 18 children. Most of the victims of Hillary’s tragic command to begin the final assault on the Branch Davidians were women and children. Of the 76 people who were murdered at Waco on April 19, 1993, 46 were females, 28 were males and 2 were babies in the womb. Thirty people were under the age of 21 years; an astounding eighteen of the dead were children who were 8 years old or younger.
Very good.
Although we’re decades deep in the abyss of Leftism, we’re fighting back with greater awareness and aptitude.
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