Princeton Student Says Joking About the Way He Says ‘Cool Whip’ is a Microaggression
Didn’t I see this on an episode of Family Guy? No, really.
Katherine Timpf of National Review has the story.
Princeton Student: Joking About How I Pronounce ‘Cool Whip’ Is a Microaggression
According to a Princeton University student, joking about the way he pronounces “Cool Whip” is a microaggression, and microaggressions are very serious because they cause binge drinking.
In a column for The Daily Princetonian, Tennessee freshman Newby Parton explains that he is from an area where people pronounce their “wh” sounds “hw,” and that this has caused hardship in his life — such as having to endure people asking him to say “Cool Whip”:
“I’ll say ‘Cool Whip.’ They’ll repeat it back to me with exaggerated emphasis on the /h/. I’ve been pulled into this conversation several times now, and each time I grow a bit more self-conscious.”
Parton wrote that he eventually decided he could no longer stay silent about this injustice, and finally said something to a friend who had “put [him] through the ‘Cool Whip’ routine.”“I waited awhile and texted her this: ‘Making fun of regional speech is a microaggression,’” he wrote.
It was obviously very brave of Parton to stand up against oppression via text message — but his friend didn’t even say she was sorry for her brutal insensitivity!
“There came no apology or retraction,” he wrote.
Princeton Student: Joking About How I Pronounce ‘Cool Whip’ Is a Microaggression (National Review)
Comments
Probably a relative of Dolly, and almost everybody in Sevier County pronounces it “Cool Whi’yup” ! Pajama Boy could probably give the poor boy diction lessons. If he is so worried about micro-aggressions, perhaps he should have his testosterone checked. Possibly Lena Dunham could give him some diction lessons as well.
“There came no apology or retraction,” he wrote.”
mostly because you never generated an extension…
‘The area where he’s from’, IE England, is soon going to pronounce ‘Cool Whip’ as ‘The blessed cool whipping from Allah given to us by Mohammed, peace be upon him’.