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Univ. of WI Releases List of Microaggressions; Saying "Everyone can Succeed" Now Racist
The Social Memo ^ | 6/26/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 06/27/2015 11:34:28 AM PDT by rightistight

The University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point has released a list of microaggressions it expects new faculty to read. The list can be found on the university's official website.

The titled of the document is "Examples of Racial Microaggressions" and outlines types of "racist microaggressions," examples of them, and what they are "actually" saying.

In the section "Color Blindness: Statements that indicate that a White person does not want to acknowledge race," the quote, "America is a melting pot" is said to be racist. According to the document, whites try to force others to "assimilate/acculturate to the dominant culture" when they say that.

Similarly, "There is only one race, the human race" is deemed racist because you are "denying the individual as a racial/cultural being."

Under the "Myth of meritocracy: Statements which assert that race does not play a role in life successes" section, the statement "I believe the most qualified person should get the job" is deemed racist. According to Wisconsin, this is because it's as if you are telling minorities, "People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race."

Additionally, "Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough" is considered racist because it's as if you're telling minorities, "People of color are lazy and / or incompetent and need to work harder."

The list also states that asking an Asian person what they think is racist. Oddly, the list also includes a section about what "black people" and what "Asian people" might act like and makes suggestions accordingly. Ironically, of course, this makes an assumption about what people of different races might do.


TOPICS: Education; Politics; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; college; education; microaggression; racism
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To: rightistight

It’s getting close to start using some MACROaggression on these thought police.


21 posted on 06/27/2015 11:57:32 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

The Left cannot help but overreach. They don’t know how to avoid it.


22 posted on 06/27/2015 11:58:53 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: lurk

Yea, small people, with maybe, one or two functioning brain cells.


23 posted on 06/27/2015 11:59:32 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: rightistight
A college or university with buildings that are all names after White heterosexual upper class males.

Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Those buildings are named after people who paid big bucks to get their name up there. Pissing off your benefactors is is stupid way to run an institution that is dependent on having benefactors.

24 posted on 06/27/2015 12:00:39 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: rightistight

I’m a microagressionist. I occasionally refer to my Asian wife as “black head” or “dragon lady”. Encouraged my younger son to get a shirt that reads “Assembled in USA from foreign and domestic components”. :)


25 posted on 06/27/2015 12:04:56 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: rightistight; onyx; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; ...

UW, StevensPoint publishes list of “micro aggressions” that all faculty are expected to read and assimilate before the fall semester. Methinks Scott Walker should cut more of their budget in the biennial budget.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.


26 posted on 06/27/2015 12:07:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: rightistight
Micro-agression, trigger words, safe places, gun free zones, confederate flags.

Is the left winning? Where are equivalent memes gaining traction from the right?

27 posted on 06/27/2015 12:13:38 PM PDT by AU72
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To: rightistight

They hate this country and especially Whites. And they are insane.


28 posted on 06/27/2015 12:22:08 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: rightistight

I am 40. I am self employed with a small and thriving manufacturing company.

If these are going to be my competition the next 20 years of my working life, I will mop the floor with these delicate snowflakes. The only thing these little creeps will know how to do is sue. They can’t compete in the world. It is no wonder companies want to import a bunch of Indian programmers. I’ve never heard Indians (had a consulting job in Chandigargh for a while) winge and complain like these safe room coddled pajama people.


29 posted on 06/27/2015 12:23:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: rightistight
From the policy document:

Is pointing out poor grammar also a form of racial micro-aggression? It is also odd how they insist on capitalizing "White" as a proper noun.

30 posted on 06/27/2015 12:27:28 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Organic Panic

These “ideas” assume that black problems are due to environmental causes. What if that theory is not true and their problems are biological in origin?


31 posted on 06/27/2015 12:28:10 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: rightistight

So the Progressive mantra is now “blacks can’t succeed” or “blacks don’t have what it takes?” They might as well be upfront about it since Affirmative Action has been their subtle way of saying it for decades.

Seems like that would be more of a micro-agression than saying “you can make it if you try” but what do I know?


32 posted on 06/27/2015 12:28:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: rightistight

Looks like the Left believes that if you can’t destroy the constitution outright, you can always utilize academic gobbledy-gook and meaningless double-talk to undermine its meaning.

And given the current direction of the United States, they’re probably correct.


33 posted on 06/27/2015 12:32:56 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: rightistight
In the section "Color Blindness: Statements that indicate that a White person does not want to acknowledge race," the quote, "America is a melting pot" is said to be racist. According to the document, whites try to force others to "assimilate/acculturate to the dominant culture" when they say that.

When will the differently color visioned stand up to this insulting term? We can't even get seeing eye dogs to help us. Have you ever seen a confused German shepherd shrug?

34 posted on 06/27/2015 12:37:00 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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To: rightistight

Ebola could be the worst case of microaggression.


35 posted on 06/27/2015 12:44:39 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Jack Hammer
And given the current direction of the United States, they’re probably correct.

To keep calling this country the United States, after all the changes, doesn't seem right.

It's like when a corporate raider bought an established American company, fired all the US workers, moved production to Asia, but kept selling the new shabby product under the old brand name.

The same thing happened to ancient Rome. They kept calling it the Roman Republic long after it became a despotic empire.

36 posted on 06/27/2015 12:45:24 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: rightistight
Let's be honest.

White people EXISTING is a microaggression to these racist evil people.

37 posted on 06/27/2015 12:49:37 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We are exactly the same as the Democrats !!!")
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To: lurk

[ Only small people can see a microaggression. ]

Micro-aggression if for people who are too wussy to do passive aggression, passive aggression is for people who are to wussy to do Real Aggression....


38 posted on 06/27/2015 1:09:57 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG

They do real aggression to us, then complain that we do microaggression to them.


39 posted on 06/27/2015 1:13:06 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: rightistight
Saying "Everyone can Succeed" Now Racist

Is saying "Not everyone can succeed" also racist?

40 posted on 06/27/2015 1:15:03 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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