How to Stop Campus Microaggressions
Microaggressions are a big problem, right? Mary Grabar of the Federalist has a plan to deal with them.
A Modest Proposal For Ending Campus Microaggressions
While college students have been touring Europe, saving rainforests, or interning at high-powered government offices, college faculty and administrators have been preparing for the upcoming school year and the biggest problem that afflicts our institutions of higher learning: microaggressions.
Many people are unaware of microaggressions, but they lurk around every corner, in every classroom, dorm room, locker room, library cubicle, coffee shop, cafeteria, and under every tree and shrub on our bucolic campuses.
The journal that reports on everything important on our campuses, the Chronicle of Higher Education, explains microaggressions. This summer, it featured two lead articles on the problem.
The first, an essay, “Microaggression and Changing Moral Cultures” by sociology professors Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, offers a good definition: “Microaggressions are remarks perceived as sexist, racist, or otherwise offensive to a marginalized social group.” And, “even though the offenses are minor and sometimes unintentional, repeatedly experiencing them causes members of minority groups great harm, which must be redressed.”
Read the rest at the link below.
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Back in my day, the manner by which micro-aggressions were most usually addressed or otherwise alleviated was for the unwitting micro-aggressor, upon being confronted with the evidence of having committed a micro-aggression, to recite the prevailing catechism “Excuse me; you obviously have me confused with someone who gives a $4!t.”
That was my attitude at a local community college where I’m doing a second career program. The speech Nazi in my group decided to show me that she would be the arbiter of my free speech. So charges were laid. I refused to meet with them to discuss it because there is no compromise where one’s freedoms are concerned. So, I got a reprimand with the possibility of an appeal. Well, I refuse to appeal because the crowd that will judge is the same pack of anti-Constitution twerps who don’t value what this country asserts. Instead of bowing to them, as they expect me to, I contacted FIRE. Come hell or high water, I will light a fire under them to make them respect the Constitution. I have the right to free speech. You can be offended, but you don’t have the right to make me stop.