On Microaggression

[Ben]

I thought this was an interesting article on the current microaggression phenomenon. Especially identifying it as a modern perversion of the honor culture, where, instead of fighting the duel yourself regarding a perceived slight, you bring in a powerful "champion", whether the government, an administrator afraid of being sued, etc. Someone bureaucratically more powerful than your opponent(s) to fight your battles for you. Where there is no chance of you getting your ass kicked, or a bullet from a dueling pistol through your heart, a system is created that allows victimhood without consequence.

Though I suspect at some point we will finally reach a tipping point where there will be consequences. When it's just one, or a few, bogeymen, like old white men or conservatives, it can continue. Now it seems to have reached a point where everyone from the right to the left is offensive in some way, and I think a bitch slap is coming.

http://righteousmind.com/where-microaggressions-really-come-from/

[brimic]

The bitchslap can't possibly come soon enough or hard enough.

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

The bitchslap can't possibly come soon enough or hard enough.

And it needs to be done til the slapper (sp) gets tired

[zxcvbob]

♪ Glove slap, I don't take crap... ♫

[Hawkmoon]

Now it seems to have reached a point where everyone from the right to the left is offensive in some way, and I think a bitch slap is coming.

The bitch slap can't possibly come too soon. Another week of these offense protests and I'll have to start walking and driving around with a gag in my mouth.

[griz]

At Oklahoma Wesleyan University a student complained to the university president because a sermon made him feel guilty.  I thought the response fit in here very well:

If you want the chaplain to tell you you’re a victim rather than tell you that you need virtue, this may not be the university you’re looking for. If you want to complain about a sermon that makes you feel less than loving for not showing love, this might be the wrong place.

If you’re more interested in playing the “hater” card than you are in confessing your own hate; if you want to arrogantly lecture, rather than humbly learn; if you don’t want to feel guilt in your soul when you are guilty of sin; if you want to be enabled rather than confronted, there are many universities across the land (in Missouri and elsewhere) that will give you exactly what you want, but Oklahoma Wesleyan isn’t one of them.

At OKWU, we teach you to be selfless rather than self-centered. We are more interested in you practicing personal forgiveness than political revenge. We want you to model interpersonal reconciliation rather than foment personal conflict. We believe the content of your character is more important than the color of your skin. We don’t believe that you have been victimized every time you feel guilty and we don’t issue “trigger warnings” before altar calls.

Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place”, but rather, a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.

This is not a day care. This is a university!

[zxcvbob]

At Oklahoma Wesleyan University a student complained to the university president because a sermon made him feel guilty.  I thought the response fit in here very well:

Who wrote that, the OKWU president?  Or is it an apocryphal story from the Internet?  (either way, it's very good.  I hope it's true)

ETA: Nevermind.  http://www.okwu.edu/blog/2015/11/this-is-not-a-day-care-its-a-university/

[charby]

[Unisaw]

I suspect that Thomas Jefferson's relationship with UVA will become an issue at some point.  Hopefully, the President of the university would handle it better than she handled the Rolling Stone article.

[makattak]

I suspect that Thomas Jefferson's relationship with UVA will become an issue at some point.  Hopefully, the President of the university would handle it better than she handled the Rolling Stone article.

I actually laughed out loud at the thought that she'd handle it in any way dissimilar to the Rolling Stone rape hoax.

[Ben]

I did not watch the referenced video, but as I read the description, I couldn't help but come up with an image of a bizarro "beatnik 1984", with a totalitarian little punk yelling at the professor, while surrounded by a group of brainwashed acolytes, all silently snapping their fingers.

Too bad for the professors, who apparently were up to this point well-liked and respected by the students.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/08/yale-couple-flees-classroom-amid-free-speech-chill/?intcmp=hpbt4

[zxcvbob]

Idiots desperately looking for *any* real or imagined slight they can take offense at, so they can get their self-righteous on.  (the girl in the Yale video deserved a hard slap in the face.  I'm not sure how the prof showed so much restraint)

[Perd Hapley]

I was obviously correct in pointing out that recognizing same-sex "marriages" would give credibility to other fabricated grievances. To hear some of our "tolerant" members decrying the social justice warrior nonsense they themselves promoted is amusing. 

[BlueStarLizzard]

I was obviously correct in pointing out that recognizing same-sex "marriages" would give credibility to other fabricated grievances. To hear some of our "tolerant" members decrying the social justice warrior nonsense they themselves promoted is amusing. 

That's rich coming from a man who was all butthurt because the gayz 'stole' the word marriage.

[wmenorr67]

What happened to JFK saying, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

I tend to believe that at one time the Democrats were actually the Republicans and vice versa.

[MechAg94]

What happened to JFK saying, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

I tend to believe that at one time the Democrats were actually the Republicans and vice versa.

Then you go back 20 years further to FDR and maybe Woodrow Wilson and remind yourself that JFK was a bit of an outlier and might not look so good if he had finished out his term(s). 

[Angel Eyes]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/08/yale-couple-flees-classroom-amid-free-speech-chill/?intcmp=hpbt4

I made the mistake of watching the video.  The "student" was a spoiled child throwing a temper tantrum. 

Too bad there won't be video of her entering the real world and working a real job.  The meltdown would be epic.

[MillCreek]

That's rich coming from a man who was all butthurt because the gayz 'stole' the word marriage.

Ted Cruz weeps over your microaggression towards the Conservative White Christian Male.

[Ben]

I made the mistake of watching the video.  The "student" was a spoiled child throwing a temper tantrum. 

Too bad there won't be video of her entering the real world and working a real job.  The meltdown would be epic.

Now you got me to actually watch it. You owe me 300 brain cells. It would normally be 600, but since I'm the moron that posted the link, I have to take half the responsibility. 

[Perd Hapley]

That's rich coming from a man who was all butthurt because the gayz 'stole' the word marriage.

Not make sense.

I said that you shouldn't complain about social justice warriors, when you (by endorsing the codification of SSM) are a social justice warrior.

So what are you saying?

[BlueStarLizzard]

Not make sense.

I said that you shouldn't complain about social justice warriors, when you (by endorsing the codification of SSM) are a social justice warrior.

So what are you saying?

That you got offended over the use of a word.

also, you apparently don't know what a SJW is. I endorsed the codification of a law that I believe rectified an issue within our legal system that was unequal in it's application. I didn't say anyone had to like it, love the gays, nor do I give a *expletive deleted*it about anyone being offended. The government doesn't have the right to dictate which legal adults can marry which other legal adults. Doesn't matter if anyone loves it or hates it. It just is.

Furthermore, what I actually endorsed was that the government get out of the marriage license business all together, but nooooo.... nobody listened to some basic *expletive deleted*ing common sense and now we get to listen to you lot whine like babies because of it.

[Perd Hapley]

That you got offended over the use of a word.

   The SSM issue is not about word usage, obviously. And I don't recall ever claiming that I'm not offended by words. I've mentioned several words that offend me, for various reasons. Being offended by stuff is normal, and does not make one a social justice warrior.

also, you apparently don't know what a SJW is. I endorsed the codification of a law that I believe rectified an issue within our legal system that was unequal in it's application.

That right there is what makes you a social justice warrior. Your belief was irrational from the very beginning. You (and people like you) complained about a non-problem, until you created a problem. No one's rights were violated by heterosexist marriage laws, because homosexual marriage is something no law can create. Now people's rights have been violated (eg. bakers and such). Now our college campuses are crippled by people following in your footsteps. You are a social justice warrior. You made yourself a part of the problem.

I laugh at you. 

[BlueStarLizzard]

because homosexual marriage is something no law can create.

Actually, that was created. It exists. Homosexual marriage was created by a law. In this country. It's in effect right now.

So, ummm... yeah... apparently you were wrong on that one.

[Perd Hapley]

They are not marriages. 

[Ben]

How about you guys take it to PM or start another topic (that will probably get locked) before I have to lock one of my own threads once again.