If a Hispanic person calls an African-American person the N word, is that a microaggression? Because neither of them belongs to a privileged group.
The actual stuff is beneath my notice. The response to it is not. I reject the idea that I’m straw-manning what he’s written.
Why do you keep asking what if questions which have nothing to actually do with the topic at hand? And to answer your question, yes, it would be a micraggression.
But microaggression was defined as being by a privileged person against a non-privileged person. That was the whole point of my question.
Really? Because hurling racial epithets at people seems to go beyond micro-aggression and straight into aggressive territory to me.
Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.
That definition works equally well regardless of who is making the comment(s).
And you point is?
Then it should be easy for you to quote the parts that can be fairly described as saying:
- Doom Is Upon Them
- Them college kids are coming for you. Pitchforks and torches
The praetor (or the university) is not (or should not be) concerned with trifles, which almost by definition, a microaggression would be.
Well, obviously, if its not happening to you then it is by definition, a trifle, right?
You guys are all missing the central point of the OP: Liberals are the real facists.
And how should we treat people who are derogatory towards other people?
Stay silent, of course. It’s not like saying a few names ever hurt anyone, or created an atmosphere of intimidation, or perpetuated harmful stereotypes.
Freedom of speech means being able to say whatever you want to anyone you want without consequence, after all.
Besides, if it’s not being aimed at you or anyone like you, who cares?
Actually it wasn’t in the first article I linked to, but Student Government has passed the bill:
It’s unclear whether that means the system will happen, or whether actual adults have to approve it. I’d hope the later.
If it’s de minimus, it doesn’t matter to whom it is happening.
Which are you claiming:
1- Racially insensitive comments are a trifle
2- The president of the University has more important things to do than to personally deal with an issue that could easily be dealt with by some other party
Oh, for fuck’s sake. That’s not straw-manning, that’s exaggerating for effect. Nobody seriously thinks I’m summarizing what he said in a sober, careful way. What he actually said–that I was mocking thusly–was that
I think my mockery of this chicken-little OP is on-point.
Man, you are so behind the times. Try reading this article and the response to it.
And yes, starting this post with “man” was probably a microaggression. Somebody had better anonymously report me.
That racially insensitive comments made in a college setting don’t rise to the level of aggression necessary to require action on the part of the university.
For someone who claims to be against racism and sexism etc I must admit that you act in a particularly odd manner in your attempts to go about reducing racism/sexism/etc