Posted: Jul 18, 2015 1:09 pm
proudfootz wrote:matthewharrison wrote:proudfootz wrote:Rachel Bronwyn wrote:I don't think you have to belong to a hideously marginalised group either to realise when someone IS being unreasonably sensitive and taking offense where it just isn't called for.
Shutting up and listening does go a long way though and, yeah, shit that totes wouldn't offend you may well have implications for others that it doesn't for you hence it is offensive to them and they're not being unreasonable.
There seems to be a number of people who don't realize (or pretend not to realize) that the 'isms' - sexism, racism, homophobia, etc - are very much alive and well on campus and off. Even people who are not consciously prejudiced can still say and do things which are demeaning and offensive.
Those who are harmed by these attitudes are going to be a little more perceptive to indicators than someone who's not experienced them.
It's an extremely ignorant IMO for someone to write that because they have never personally been aware that people say this kind of shit, that anyone who does testify that it does happen must be deluded or they are a liar. Or that there is some vast Left Wing conspiracy to turn people into self-diagnosed 'victims'. That's just crazy talk.
If anyone was sincerely interested in the scientific basis of microaggressions they would be looking at the academics studying the issues involved, and refrain from taking their cues from columnists looking for the latest in 'faux outrage' fashions.
Academia... another left wing one world conspiracy!
Noted social scientist Dr Glenn Beck agrees:Glenn Beck voiced his outrage over reports that the University of California had supposedly banned phrases such as "America is the land of opportunity" and "America is a melting pot" on the grounds that they are "microaggressions" that could potentially offend others.
In reality, the university had simply held "seminars to make people aware of how their words or actions may be interpreted when used in certain contexts." Nobody was required to attend these seminars and "no one at the University of California is prohibited from making [these sorts of] statements."
But that basic detail was lost on Beck, who decided to react to this phony story like he always does: by warning that it will end with beatings in the street and a bullet to the head.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/b ... ullet-head
Glen Beck is such an idiot.
He forgot about FEMA camps!