Gee, Columbia sounds like a terrifying place, doesn’t it?

The College Fix reports.

What passes for microaggressions at Columbia: White male professors, ‘stressful situations’

A conversation with a self-described queer, multiracial, mentally ill sexual-assault survivor

As she describes herself, Avegail Muñoz is facing a stacked deck.

The Columbia University student is a “queer, multiracial woman of color” as well as a “low-income, first-generation student.”

She suffers from “multiple mental illnesses” and is a “survival of sexual assault.”

And she’s mad that people are telling her to stop being so politically correct, as Muñoz wrote in an op-ed for the Columbia Daily Spectator last month.

Muñoz made several troubling allegations about how Columbia treats students like her, so I reached out to her on Facebook for more details about her experiences. In the end, she provided only three examples of attacks on students like herself: vandalism of a pro-transgender bulletin board, too many white professors and the stress of college.

Set off by a popular New York Post article

While admitting that she is “privileged” to be attending a school of Columbia’s caliber, Muñoz wrote that the university is not the bastion of “inclusivity” that it claims to be.

Students with “marginalized identities” are constantly told by the larger culture that they are “nitpicking” and being “too politically correct” when they complain about the microaggressions directed at them, she wrote, citing a microaggression-mocking column in The Guardian.

Muñoz’s riposte is that not everyone sees PC culture as superfluous when students like herself still have to deal with “hate crimes” and “hateful biases” in the Columbia community.

Though she frames her op-ed as a response to the Guardian column, Muñoz told me it was actually a New York Post column by a fellow Columbia student in November that set her off.

Alexandra Villarreal wrote that Ivy League students are obsessed with “identity politics,” citing a fellow student who complained she had to study “oppressive texts with a white professor.” Such students denigrate her own Mexican heritage “because of the gradation of my skin,” Villarreal claimed.


 
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