- Can I trade in my White Privilege for extra Microaggression, or is it the other way around?
Posted on 02/03/2014 6:47:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As a group of students begins studying for a calculus exam, a white student turns to an Asian peer and says, “Hey, would you mind helping me solve this problem? It’s really difficult, but you can probably do it.” The Asian student agrees to help, but for some reason feels uncomfortable with the way the question was asked.
Is the Asian student being oversensitive? Was the white student subtly and subconsciously displaying racial prejudice against Asians? Could both be true?
According to Dr. Derald Sue, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, the Asian student may have been the victim of a microaggression — an “everyday slight, putdown, indignity, or invalidation unintentionally directed toward a marginalized group.”
Sue has been researching microaggression since 2007 and has written two books on the subject. According to him, the person delivering the microaggression often does not know he’s doing it and might even think he is complimenting the other individual....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I think since the person is taller, it could be considered a macro-agression... look a new book just like that...
And Eric erickson on wsb today said anyone who had a problem with the coke commercial was an idiot.
And now we get this to remind us of the Balkanization of the country.
Scout Out! Cavalry Ho!
LOL!
You poor thing, that was practically a "microaggression lynching", yet you are so desensitized, that you were not even aware of what they were doing to you.
One of the most important ways to control people is to manipulate their guilt.
And then you offer yourself or your party as redemption.
Thats how the Left operates. Doesn’t work with people who already have a clear set of morals who get their redemption from a higher source. But people without a clear set of morals and a clear belief in God are empty vessels begging to be manipulated.
You can imagine this guy trying to make you feel guilty about an innocent conversation, but a pervert who accepts Leftist orthodoxy gets a pass.
Micro-agression, this years latest fashion for liberals, last year it was “White Privilege”
I’m not going to be capable of worrying about this.
Far too subtle for me... ;-)
I’m guilty of femto to tera agression and all points in between.
Don’t worry. It gets better. Much better.
micro racism?
Another step towards dealing with society as if it were a machine. If “they” could, the machinery would be purged every few months. To remove all micro-whatever, of course.
It was a stupid example. I live in a high income, professional town. You know, one where you are judged by what you wear and where you work.
I hear this condescending crap all of the time. It’s usually pretty thick up until just before I let it slip that I am retired at 53. Just doing what I want.
They suck, and I could see where some insecure people could be really bothered. These snobs just usually piss me off.
Can I trade in my White Privilege for extra Microaggression, or is it the other way around?
Oh my God, worker bee. . . You just committed MACROaggression against Professor Sue. . .
What can you expect from a guy whose parent's left him with the name of Sue? Think he might have felt everyone picked on him as he went through school? Just the type to go into psychology to find out what was wrong with him? Hmmmm. . . there might be a song in that. . . maybe it should be sung by somebody like Johnny Cash?
Yep, that gets my vote.
That does it! That DOES it! You just offended me by thinking you had to explain to me what you were saying. (Er...could you explain it in simpler terms?)
They haven't given up on white privilege. It's still on the list, although macro-aggression is the latest social crime du jour. Next will be "breathing while white."
I have met LOTS of really stupid Asians...Chinese, you name it.
The problem is that their parents hound the hell out of them to succeed. SOME students just don't have the brains or talent to compete and parents nagging and screaming at them AIN'T gonna make them better.
It's a shame but so many Chinese children grow up and do the same thing to their own children. The cycle seems to repeat.
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