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 theyre from. While the question isnt 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 dont 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 isnt singled out for being black. But if that happens, then it can possibly be a macroaggression.
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I’m not so sure the difference is racial, as opposed to cultural. African and Afro-Caribbean immigrant blacks do much better than native-born blacks.
Furthermore, I suspect that the black immigrant numbers are negatively impacted by Somalis, another culturally-challenged group.
The conclusion I draw from all this is that blacks who are not from cultures dominated by welfare, drugs, pimpin’, gangstas, anarchy, crime in general, where the dream is winning a lottery, being able to sue city government for police brutality, getting pregnant by a professional ballplayer, and scoring what you can in the next riot, that they can do fine in a free society. But, you know, Democrats cling desperately to their welfare and drugs.
Obviously the only solution is to shoot everybody. /here’s your damned sarcasm tag, just in case you feel micro-aggressed by my insensitivity.
Coming next: what-if-you-didn’t-care aggression.
This is where you bump into some guy, and you don’t care about his color, his job, his religion, his wife, his politics, his NFL team, his tie-style, his education, his intellectualism, his charm, his golf score, his bar-b-q sauce recipe, his ethnic group, his favorite soda or beer, or his social media commentary.
First, we're told how "we are a nation of immigrants," and now we are told we cannot ask where the immigrants come from?
I don't think so...
-PJ
It's like badgering in FR's Religion Forum...
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