Posted on 09/06/2017 2:21:52 PM PDT by Hadean
Two professors claim to have discovered a new form of politically incorrect offense called “invisibility microaggressions,” which are said to be even more subtle than regular microaggressions. Their proposed solution for these offenses is to get rid of meritocracy.
In social justice jargon, a “microaggression” is when someone — say a white person — asks an Asian person where they’re from. While the question isn’t offensive in and of itself, the act of asking a person who may get the same question repeatedly throughout the week can be annoying and therefore offensive.
Campus Reform reported on Thursday that a recent study by two professors, Jasmine Mena, who teaches psychology at Bucknell University, and Annemarie Vaccaro of the University of Rhode Island, claim that they are the first academics to discover that “invisibility” is a form of microaggressions not previously described in feminist academia.
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...the professors claim that the environment-based “invisibility microaggressions” occur when they are “among the few, or only” non-whites in a workplace or communal context.
Meanwhile, interpersonal “invisibility microaggressions” are said to hinder non-white people in “everyday work roles” because their ethnicity or gender is being ignored or because they don’t see other non-white people there.
The participants reported “campus invisibility,” where non-white faculty members say they experienced invisibility for being one of the few non-white faculty members on campus.
Unlike regular microaggressions, which require at least two parties for them to occur, invisibility microaggressions only needs for one person to feel invisible in an environment. A lone black person among a sea of white faces could qualify as one of these invisibility microaggressions — especially if he or she isn’t singled out for being black. But if that happens, then it can possibly be a macroaggression.
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Femto-aggressions
I find SJWs to be a macroaggression.
Sorry. Posted the same as you before reading entire thread.
The quantum aggression. It occurs to the offended instantaneously from another universe.
Also know as Spooky Aggressionism.
Once you’ve died, they’ll tear down your statue.
GMTA!........................
I frequently see comments that say ‘you can’t make this stuff up.’
Well, yes ‘they’ can — and do.
Wonder how many hours the 2 profs pondered and imbibed before creating the ‘invisibility microaggression’ idea?
It’s the dual nature of the classes of less than aggressions...
Everything has a negative sign and there is no zer0.
It’s no wonder people bury their faces in their Smartphones.
There is no way to communicate without offending someone.
Its a micro-aggression to ask a minority where they are from, but its OK to call a white person a racist and call for their extinction.
That’s good.
When the term "public Ivies" became de rigueur some 30 years ago, URI was mentioned as a state school that "...everybody (in RI) knows that it's high school after high school."
Based on this academic's "research", I don't think they've increased the school's rating in a positive direction.
Maybe they did, and it's the prof that can't keep up with the expectations of students, so it's a matter of job security for her to want lesser prepared scholars.
(Don't know much, if anything about her collaborator's Bucknell.)
What a load of cobblers.
What planet are these professors from?
Barking moonbats from Planet Commie Nutbar.
If you see them and acknowledge their existence, your are a RACIST BIGOT.
If you just go about your business and don’t acknowledge them, you are committing an INVISIBLE MICROAGGRESSION and you are a RACIST BIGOT.
So I guess I will just have to settle for being a (wait for it)
A RACIST BIGOT!!!!
Or, as some of us experienced, Nana-aggression.
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