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    Picking the Right Words to Ban From Campus

    In recent months, universities have turned their attention to an important problem that should be included in our national effort to examine and root out bigotry. They have identified, and attempted to reduce, "microaggressions" -- words or behavior that might stigmatize or humiliate women or members of minority groups, with particular emphasis on African-Americans, disabled people, and gays and lesbians. The effort has admirable goals, but there is a risk that schools will overshoot the mark.

    Chester Pierce, a Harvard Medical School professor, coined the word in the 1970s to describe the kind of behavior that can really hurt -- and that deserves stigmatizing. Suppose, for example, that a professor refers to African-Americans as "you people," or says approvingly that a student "doesn't act like a normal black person," or proclaims that today's African-American students are "amazingly articulate." Such remarks are worse than careless; they're insulting and demeaning, and hardly conducive to a good educational atmosphere.

    Or imagine that a teacher exclaims to a female student, "You're so good at math," or announces, "When I look at you, I don't even think about gender; I just see an outstanding young person." If a university administrator expresses astonishment that a football star is gay, raises his voice when speaking to a blind student, mistakes a person of color for a service worker, or assumes that a female medical school student is training to be a nurse, microaggression is involved.

    Microaggressions can be humiliating, especially if people are exposed to a lot of them. In their worst forms, they insult people's dignity, giving them a sense that important people think they don't really belong. In a lengthy and sometimes poignant book, Columbia University's Derald Wing Sue marshals evidence that persistent microaggressions make people think that they're perceived as second-class citizens -- and can impose real psychological damage.

    What Sue might have added, but downplays, is that microaggressions can also have bad effects on the groups that produce them, contributing to a sense of prejudice and superiority, potentially even hatred.

    At the same time, it's important to maintain perspective. Some microaggressions can and should be laughed off. Offensive words are usually far less harmful than violence or the worst forms of discrimination. And if charges of microaggressions are taken too far, they can impose a stifling orthodoxy -- undermining freedom of thought and expression.

    As my fellow Bloomberg View columnist Noah Smith pointed out last week, for example, the University of California at Berkeley has signaled its willingness to consider disciplining people for making one of a large number of statements, many or all of which most Americans would consider harmless or even correct. "America is a melting pot" is one of the university's own examples. Here's another: "Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough." And a few more: "I believe the most qualified person should get the job." "America is the land of opportunity." "Affirmative action is racist." "There is only one race, the human race."

    The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point similarly has declared that microaggressions include a "statement made when whites deny their racial biases," and "statements that indicate that a white person does not want to acknowledge race."

    It is true, of course, that some people might find such statements deceptive or hurtful, but in well-functioning democracies and universities, feelings will sometimes be hurt. It does students no service to treat them like children -- or to threaten to punish people for stating perfectly legitimate political convictions.

    It's useful and important to identify and stigmatize the most serious microaggressions, which can be genuinely damaging. But the term ought not to be invoked, on campuses or anywhere else, as the basis for a code of conduct enforced by a new cadre of thought police.
    http://www.bloombergview.com/article...an-from-campus
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    $#@!in' ninnies!

    There! Microaggress that you oversensitive $#@!s...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    $#@!in' ninnies!

    There! Microaggress that you oversensitive $#@!s...


    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to tod evans again.
    Mornin' tod evans

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    I am sick beyond description of hearing about this kind of insanity. It seems to be virulent and spreading. And how hard is it to see that only politically correct causes de jure qualify as "microaggressions" ? This is insanity on steroids.

    And another good morning Tod, you obnoxious old prick.
    "The Patriarch"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    I am sick beyond description of hearing about this kind of insanity. It seems to be virulent and spreading. And how hard is it to see that only politically correct causes de jure qualify as "microaggressions" ? This is insanity on steroids.

    And another good morning Tod, you obnoxious old prick.
    Mornin'

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    This is bad. Man, the last vestiges of what once used to be a great country, are dying fast.
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    I am very good at putting on my shocked mom face. I think I am going to start doing that every time someone tries to be politically correct, because most of that stuff is offensive to me.

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    Orwellian bull$#@!.



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    Free speech.

    Intellectual honesty.

    anti-Marxism.

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    Is it microaggression when I compliment someone from down south, like Georgia, how well they speak English?

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    Let me guess , Berkley ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Let me guess , Berkley ?
    Wisconsin.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015...#ixzz3eNDVGd00




    Oh, BTW, I have seen much improvement in your English as well. Soon you may be up to Eduardo's level.
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    [QUOTE=Danke;5908147]Wisconsin.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015...#ixzz3eNDVGd00

    Crap , around Madison ? the Berkley of the North . My English is not really as bad as I type , I am lazy and do not use spell check so just skip words I cannot spell .This makes my writing style unique , so you will notice if the govt. hijacks my account . 27,186 posts , I have used the word their three times. I never can remember the I and E thing. Eduardos Spanish is much better than mine as well , but I can read the menu and know every place that has Dos Equis on draft . I have the important details covered .

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    Ya my Spanish sucks, and I wish I knew Indian like you so I could flirt with the cute dealers at the casinos on the reservations.
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    Political correctness, progressives, feminists is a weapon of the russian kgb to destabilize a country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Ya my Spanish sucks, and I wish I knew Indian like you so I could flirt with the cute dealers at the casinos on the reservations.
    Just show them pictured of old dead white guys. They love that $#@!.
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    I'm all for this! Here's my list of words to ban:

    social justice
    any word ending in "ist"
    any variation of the word feminist.

    That should do it.

    -t

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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    $#@!in' ninnies!

    There! Microaggress that you oversensitive $#@!s...
    Don't make me go microagressive on yo' azz!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Danke View Post
    Is it microaggression when I compliment someone from down south, like Georgia, how well they speak English?

    Being an English teacher, I microagress every single day. My students seem to like it.
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    So they are prejudice against me.... I'm naturally sarcastic.

    As long as they continue to write these people checks this will continue, it is definitely a self-serving market.
    FJB

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    The statements they are banning remind me of Radiohead lyrics, even though they are not.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
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    Talking

    Whew!

    I was downright relieved when I read the comments over at Bloomberg and a couple of other sites I looked up, I cracked up a few times.... something like, if I'm a rich white guy picking the right words to say then I'm practicing microaggression.

    At least 98% of the comments did nothing but mock and make fun of the college and the microaggression that it was "digging into."
    FJB

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mach View Post
    Whew!

    I was downright relieved when I read the comments over at Bloomberg and a couple of other sites I looked up, I cracked up a few times.... something like, if I'm a rich white guy picking the right words to say then I'm practicing microaggression.

    At least 98% of the comments did nothing but mock and make fun of the college and the microaggression that it was "digging into."
    You just can't win. You acknowledge race and you come off as a prick. You don't acknowledge it and suddenly you're trying to sidestep being recognized as a prick, which you are, of course. And trying to avoid being recognized as a prick is about the worst thing you can do in the minds of these people. Like I said, you can't win.
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    This has got to be some Onion-clone article. Oh wait...

    $#@! all you imbecile sissies. How's THAT? Come get me, motherfuckers. Frustrating, isn't it you gay pussified filth?

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA...

    Add another datapoint illustrating how the abuse of language leads the minds into deep and very dangerous waters.
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    It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.

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    Wow. I work in travel and tourism, the most microagressive industry on the planet, then. It is considered a plus to engage the traveler. "Where y'all from."

    PC jail for me.
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