meazza Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/02/19/robyn-urback-at-mcgill-the-social-outrage-machine-rages-on/ I learned a new word today. Universities are incubators of social outrage. The worst cultivators, by and large, are student political leaders, who self-righteously call out perceived injustices from their pedestals of inflated importance. A glib remark from a professor will beget a multi-day campus protest. A broken step will solicit a forum on accessibility. A rise in administration fees is a campus-level Vietnam draft. It’s exhausting. ... “Honestly midterms get out of here,” Farnan wrote, followed by a .GIF image (which is sort of like a looped moving picture) of U.S. President Barack Obama walking away from a press conference and kicking down a door. The clip was obviously fake, created as part of a gag for the Tonight Show several years ago. But its inclusion in Farnan’s weekly email was enough to provoke a formal complaint to SSMU’s equity committee. According to the McGill Tribunethe months that followed consisted of various informal and formal resolution proceedings, which included assessment by the SSMU equity officer and a confidential vote during a December council meeting. All because the inclusion of the Obama .GIF was an example of “microaggression. The term “microagression” is a favourite, somewhat de jour word of social significance that is used to describe racial or other verbal or behavioural slights that are committed knowingly or unknowingly. Assuming your Japanese friend is an expert at using chopsticks might be an example. Asking a gay man for fashion advice just because he is gay is another. It’s a subtle, passive expression of prejudice, and a favourite for easily offended university students since anything, really, can be an expression of microagression. Even the denial of its existence in certain situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keukasmallies Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 The very fact that you posted the above lifts your skirts of intolerance, you microaggressor you! (On the other hand, my assumption of your attitudes does in no way imply the fanning of a mini-climate of microagression.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) The very fact that you posted the above lifts your skirts of intolerance, you microaggressor you! (On the other hand, my assumption of your attitudes does in no way imply the fanning of a mini-climate of microagression.) The original "inventor" of the term is, surprise surprise, a professor from UCLA. As an example, getting up and offering your seat to a black woman is considered micro aggression (heard this on the radio). Edited February 20, 2014 by meazza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 The original "inventor" of the term is, surprise surprise, a professor from UCLA. As an example, getting up and offering your seat to a black woman is considered micro aggression (heard this on the radio). Is your seat in the front or the back of the bus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Microaggression alert. You may know that I am tracking the term/concept "microaggression." Therefore, I must point out this Buzzfeed article: "19 LGBT Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis." I'm starting to feel like pointing out a microaggression is a microaggression. Passive Microaggression : Claiming microaggression is a way to control others. Now this Microaggression is funny (video at link) By the way, the idea of microaggression is a secular version of the scrupulously religious believer's concept of sin. There are all these little wrongs you might be committing, and you should become aware of them and apply conscious effort to eliminating them. The religious person might believe that God watches and cares about these tiny infractions . The purveyors of the concept of microaggression seek to instill a conscience about the smallest things, but unlike those who define sin very broadly and call believers to seek perfection, they are shaming even those who have not yet signed on to the broad definition of what counts as wrong, and they want to enforce their strict demands through the exercise of power in this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 The original "inventor" of the term is, surprise surprise, a professor from UCLA. As an example, getting up and offering your seat to a black woman is considered micro aggression (heard this on the radio). What radio? Glenn Becks show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 What radio? Glenn Becks show? http://www.cjad.com/shows/tommyschnurmachershow.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 What radio? Glenn Becks show? Ed Schultz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Ed Schultz. I wonder if he realizes that it's "microaggression" to assume someone who leans right listens to Glenn Beck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I wonder if he realizes that it's "microaggression" to assume someone who leans right listens to Glenn Beck. He's a complete idiot. He is the same guy who thought Lois Lerner was a guy. He actually stated that he had a tape of Louis Lerner and Louis never claimed that he even worked for the IRS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I just dodge the whole issue by getting all macro-aggressive with !@#$ing morons like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Dumbest thing ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 He's a complete idiot. He is the same guy who thought Lois Lerner was a guy. He actually stated that he had a tape of Louis Lerner and Louis never claimed that he even worked for the IRS. Saying someone thought Lous Lerner was a guy suggests she might indeed look a little guyish. Microaggressor. BTW I am guessing that Beerboy hasn't opened this thread because he thinks we are all joking about part of his anatomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 (edited) Is this micro aggression? "Oh you were a College Republican for Bush, I guess you are not a Veteran then?" Edited February 20, 2014 by gatorman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Is this micro aggression? "Oh you were a College Republican for Bush, I guess you are not a Veteran then?" No, that's just stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 No, that's just stupid. I'd be more right than wrong in saying it. But anyway, from your anti statist position, wasn't Bush just as bad or even worse than Obama in building up Federal power and all that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 Is this micro aggression? "Oh you were a College Republican for Bush, I guess you are not a Veteran then?" 1) I`m Canadian 2) Didn`t I tell you the last president I liked was Clinton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 1) I`m Canadian 2) Didn`t I tell you the last president I liked was Clinton? That's not the question...wasn't Bush just as much or even more of a statist than Obama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 That's not the question...wasn't Bush just as much or even more of a statist than Obama? Maybe. How do you feel about Bush compared to Obama? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I'd be more right than wrong in saying it. No, you wouldn't. You'd be an idiot making baseless assumptions. But anyway, from your anti statist position, wasn't Bush just as bad or even worse than Obama in building up Federal power and all that? President Bush was awful, and until President Obama came into office, I couldn't have imagined a president worse for individual liberty; but President Obama has managed to out do him by building upon the last President's usurpations with his own massive power grabs, which now include making law by deceree from a podium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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