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.


 
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