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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
mi·cro·ag·gres·sion

ˌmīkrōəˈɡreSHən/

noun

a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional butthurt taken by snowflakes, gender confused, mom's basement dwellers, candy ass, pussywhipped, oxygen thieving, Marxist moon-bats, socialists, liberal democrats and such as...

To hell with the entire stack of twatwaffles.

Stolen, sooooooo stolen.....

I guess one could be like this guy: link

And just jump right in and don't hold back.

From the article......

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Sundaram said “Gandhi didn’t fast for twenty days so that I could get to America and not sleep with white women.”

I still can't figure out if he was joking or not.

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Originally posted by radioman:
I guess one could be like this guy: link

And just jump right in and don't hold back.

From the article......

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Sundaram said “Gandhi didn’t fast for twenty days so that I could get to America and not sleep with white women.”

I still can't figure out if he was joking or not.

He might have thought it was funny but I can't see that it's a joke. There is an irony here in that back in the bad old days when men were men, this ass clown would have been removed from the stage by a lacrosse goalie and two shot putters. But now when the primary focus of any day on any campus seems to be to try to figure out the new vocabulary ("intersectionality" anyone?), by the time they got it figured out the damage was done.

I happen to think the writer is a snow flake and a quasi-hysteric and if she was fearful because of the words this cretin used then she can really be in for a shock in other parts of the real world. The problem is one of manners and decency, not rape culture. The guy's an ass-maggot and should have been treated as such swiftly and seriously but in 'safe-space America' ain't happenin'.

Of course I'm posting from a place of white-privilege informed by the hetero-normative, hyper-toxic masculine dominant culture, so what the heck do I know? Other than that she's a snow flake, I'm pretty down with that.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

More importantly, I'm prepared to super-macro-aggress if you macro aggress me...

Don't bring a micro-aggression to a macro-aggression fight!

The more I read of these types of events the more I wonder if some people really just need to be slapped upside the head then told to sit down, shut up and grow up.

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Originally posted by trapper189:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

More importantly, I'm prepared to super-macro-aggress if you macro aggress me...

Don't bring a micro-aggression to a macro-aggression fight!

The more I read of these types of events the more I wonder if some people really just need to be slapped upside the head then told to sit down, shut up and grow up.

Works for me!

flashguy

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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:

....I happen to think the writer is a snow flake and a quasi-hysteric and if she was fearful because of the words this cretin used .......

Oh, she's a total snowflake. No question. Their school seems to be full of them. How about this guy (link) who wasn't even at the event, but wanted to write about his own microaggressions.

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Many of you know me as a thoughtful, caring, compassionate, socially justice-minded person. The truth is that I have been awesome at times and at other times I have been hurtful. I remember two years ago when one of my RAs, whose family is Mexican, said he was taking a trip to Mexico, and I immediately asked if he was going to visit family.

No, he was just going on vacation! My assumption was a microaggression that unnecessarily made him feel “different.”

There are, in his mind, so many ways to cause a microaggression that he may as well only talk to other straight, white, able, American men and not even try to talk to anyone else.

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
Having taught in two Bay Area colleges, I can add a few tidbits to the list, from my own "training".

- White males are privileged, arrogant, guilty of microagression without knowing it.

- Minorities (everyone except white males) don't have to prove victimization, we will assume their allegations are valid.

- Social justice means equal outcomes (regardless of unequal performance)

And from my own observation, gender and ethnicity play key roles in hiring.

Thanks for Mansplaining that to us.

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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:

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Originally posted by radioman:
I guess one could be like this guy: link

And just jump right in and don't hold back.

From the article......

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Sundaram said “Gandhi didn’t fast for twenty days so that I could get to America and not sleep with white women.”

I still can't figure out if he was joking or not.

He might have thought it was funny but I can't see that it's a joke. There is an irony here in that back in the bad old days when men were men, this ass clown would have been removed from the stage by a lacrosse goalie and two shot putters. But now when the primary focus of any day on any campus seems to be to try to figure out the new vocabulary ("intersectionality" anyone?), by the time they got it figured out the damage was done.

You and I agree. This thread and the article highlights a dissonance with US society today. I think the speech and the list are reactionary extremes reflective of the discord. On one hand, someone in college thinks it's okay to present locker room thoughts in a mixed awards banquet and, on the other hand, someone thinks it's offensive to say America is the land of opportunity.

Both of these point to something wrong with society today.

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.ucsc.edu/search/?i...ggression&gsc.page=1

“A microaggression is any slight you perceive is based on a social identity you have,” she said. They can happen across identities. They also happen anywhere: with friends, at the coffee shop, in the gym, even in the classroom and on campus.

And Cal published a...list.

Exactly how does anyone plan on policing these "microagressions"? One of the first things one learns in the UC system, if one hasn't learned it before arriving on campus, is how to tell a shrieking lily to buzz off.

the University of Stupid at California

good for them