Posted on 02/03/2014 6:47:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As a group of students begins studying for a calculus exam, a white student turns to an Asian peer and says, “Hey, would you mind helping me solve this problem? It’s really difficult, but you can probably do it.” The Asian student agrees to help, but for some reason feels uncomfortable with the way the question was asked.
Is the Asian student being oversensitive? Was the white student subtly and subconsciously displaying racial prejudice against Asians? Could both be true?
According to Dr. Derald Sue, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, the Asian student may have been the victim of a microaggression — an “everyday slight, putdown, indignity, or invalidation unintentionally directed toward a marginalized group.”
Sue has been researching microaggression since 2007 and has written two books on the subject. According to him, the person delivering the microaggression often does not know he’s doing it and might even think he is complimenting the other individual....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
LOL!
So, “The Power Of Persuasion” was a Nazi manual ?
I’m sorry, but now thinking someone else may be better than you are at something is prejudice? It might be a stereotype, but hardly a negative one. And the stereotype is more cultural than racial.
Who cares?
Ultimately, racism can be defined as treating non-whites like they are non-whites. It is that simple.
The victim of microagression (ma) should be prepared to yell loudly and clearly when attacked: “ma-ma! ma-ma!”)
Social manipulators who invent Orwellian terms like that to control us ought to be beaten senseless to the ground. So much for micro-aggression, I favor the more virulent variety.
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