EVERYTHING IS RACIST THROUGHOUT HISTORY!
EVERYTHING IS RACIST AND YOU BETTER AGREE!
Posted on 03/21/2014 4:46:47 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
A tone-deaf inquiry into an Asian-American’s ethnic origin. Cringe-inducing praise for how articulate a black student is. An unwanted conversation about a Latino’s ability to speak English without an accent.
This is not exactly the language of traditional racism, but in an avalanche of blogs, student discourse, campus theater and academic papers, they all reflect the murky terrain of the social justice word du jour — microaggressions — used to describe the subtle ways that racial, ethnic, gender and other stereotypes can play out painfully in an increasingly diverse culture.
On a Facebook page called “Brown University Micro/Aggressions” a “dark-skinned black person” describes feeling alienated from conversations about racism on campus. A digital photo project run by a Fordham University student about “racial microaggressions” features minority students holding up signs with comments like “You’re really pretty … for a dark-skin girl.” The “St. Olaf Microaggressions” blog includes a letter asking David R. Anderson, the college’s president, to address “all of the incidents and microaggressions that go unreported on a daily basis.”
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so if I encounter a white guy with an obvious european accent... it’s racist to ask where they are from?
or does this only work with people with darker skin ?
Can't happen soon enough.
Microaggressions?
Just live in the south and read the New York Times and you will get a real good understanding of what it means.
These morons don’t even have the brains to realize they they caused this. People actually think they are paying a compliment but to the progressive mind everything is an insult and is deemed offensive.
“Yo, you jump ayite fo a cracka mofo. I gon stick yo ass.” </micro>
Yup.
“...they’d come to like me and think well of me, and that, “You’re okay for a white guy.”
I am curious about whether you responded, and if so, how and how it was received? If they were still your employee, it is understandable if such a comment was left hanging out there.
There is a reason to stay off campuses these days. Whenever I get out of the Athletic Departments where I generally work, really just nod and grunt because it’s so easy to piss off someone these days.
In a $60 cab ride from JFK to manhattan I asked the driver with a heavy Indian accent where he was from. He snarled and said....America. So for his nastiness I gave him zero tip. I felt better and maybe he learned a lesson in politeness.
Jesus was into micro-aggression. Twice that we know of. He engaged in banter with the Syrophenician woman and with the Samaritan woman. This showed real friendship. That’s what the liberal want to prevent. They want us to be segregated from each other, to always be on our tip-toes, like God forbid I should do something wrong.
I’m waiting for the uproar that ensues once they start to uncover nanoaggressions.
I'd reply, “How would you feel if I said, ‘you're okay... for a black person’?”
They'd say back, without any evidence of understanding, “That’d be racist.”
I live in a very diverse metropolitan area. I grew up with all sorts of different people. At home, I was taught to judge folks by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. It took me a long time to figure out that I was playing with one set of rules, and other folks were playing with a different one, one where color of skin was quite important.
Quite a disappointment.
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I find this hard to believe that people could actually be offended by that.
When I travel overseas I LOVE it when people ask where I am from! In fact, I would be almost insulted if they didn’t mention it!
Wait a minute, now! Didn't Jimmy the Greek say they CAN'T swim?
Bummer - tough to be offended with racist comments if nobody will talk about race around you. OTH, there's always something to be offended about - like folks trying to not offend you....
—— we’re ethnic groups——
What that really means is that the topic here is not racism, it is culturism.
I am not a racist as some here believe, I am a culturist. I observe cultures and subcultures. Comments and criticisms are reflections of what I see and what exists.
I had a rude awakening the other day. A fellow Marine who is Latino, was commenting about politics and how national leaders weren’t representing them began to denigrate the Tea Party.
I explained to him the Tea Party was a grass roots movement set to address that issue, when he then stated the Tea Party was bigoted because it didn’t do enough to attract brown skinned people into its party.
Simply being equal isn’t enough from their perspective.
Many of these minorities believe they should only support political groups if there is a payback in free goods and services. He then went on to lambast Fox news and anything conservative and used the telltale phrase, since the people elected Obama, the rest of the country needs to ‘just get over it’ and accept the changes like Obamacare.
The real problem is rejecting God and His Plan. A little bit of leaven, leavens the whole loaf. People who were conservative Republicans some 30 years ago but who reject God, are migrating into an entirely ‘unAmerican’, relative morality ethic, and now simply answer criticism with, ‘just get over it” responses.
LOL!
Here, we have one person who senses microagression, in part, because Barack Obama is referred to as black rather than as bi-racial. Another oppressed individual is a victim of microagression because he or she is referred to as 'hearing-impaired' rather that 'deaf' or 'hard of hearing.'
Am I the only one who knows, not believes, but knows, that somewhere else another victim of 'microagression' is upset because he or she is reminded that Barack Obama is bi-racial rather than black, or is called deaf rather than hearing impaired?
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