DANG!
Posted on 07/01/2015 11:56:17 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Another phrase declared unacceptable by the college PC police. The University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point has told its faculty that seemingly innocuous phrases such as “America is a melting pot” are actually racial microaggressions and should not be used.
The suggestion was one of many no-no phrases listed on an “Examples of Racial Microaggressions” document that the school handed out “as a discussion item for some new faculty and staff training over the past few years,” according to an e-mail a school official sent to the College Fix.
Other “microaggressions” on the list include asking “Where are you from,” “Where were you born,” “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” and “Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.”
The document claims that saying “America is a melting pot” is like saying minorities have to “assimilate/acculturate to the dominant culture” and saying “Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough” is like saying “People of color are lazy and / or incompetent and need to work harder.”
A campus official clarified in an e-mail to the College Fix that the school was not formally banning these phrases with any kind of official policy.
If you think that this story sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Handouts advising against these and similar phrases have been also used in training at the University of California system (which suggested that saying “America is the land of opportunity” is a microaggression).
What we have now is a regression into the lowest forms of pagan tribalism. People defending members of their "tribe" no matter what, while trying to destroy members of other tribes no matter what.
DANG!
It’s about removing the idea of “individual” from everything.
We are Borg. Resistance is futile.
I can’t say that America is a melting pot? Can I say that academia is a Leftist chamber pot?
It’s not a melting pot anymore.
It’s more of a Stew Pot.
America has gone to Pot.
No, it's called "projection" with a side order of blame shifting. It's an admission by lazy, incompetent people who happen to be colored that they are indeed lazy and incompetent and are unwilling to work harder to overcome their own habit, that's all.
So if I say the pot is calling the kettle black....
Please tell me this is a Semmens article.
Please tell me this is a Semmens article.
Same person believes picking the cotton ball out of a Tylanol bottle is raciest.
A list of microaggressions is a microaggression.
Is “jellybean” jar okay? It was taught for a while, until the whole Texaco thing.
I’m thinking of using the “black and white cookie” theory.
It might not be a good theory, but the cookie is delicious until you get sick.
My first time to hear we were no longer a melting pot was in 1960 in a college classroom. We are now a salad, wherein each
part has its own identity but combines into a tasty whole.
Somehow, the items in the salad all want to be #1 and don’t really appreciate the overwhelming impact of any other item.
“Stew pot”, “Oreo” (black and white cookie), “Marble Cake” - all are pretty much the same. They describe no “assimilation” - they try to capture the idea of “acculturation” instead.
I still believe that people who come here (even illegally) will eventually become part of the fabric of what we once knew to be America.
There will always be a ghetto. In America, it is (and will be for a VERY long time) populated by Blacks.
To me, a lot of it depends on two things:
1. Why the muslims are here? It is likely that THEIR agenda is different. Many believe they are an occupying advance force.
and,
2. Will the government continue to preserve poverty through socialism; what they call a “War on Poverty” (”income redistribution”, “income equality”, Obamacare... and more - all are socialism)?
These are some of my opinions.
If that is not the pot calling the kettle black.
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