Just when you thought you had a handle on the treasonous thought-police infractions known as microagressions, folks at Rutgers University had to go ahead and further muddy the waters of what is and isn’t allowed to be uttered on today’s college campuses.
Since I know you’re all dying to find out, let’s turn to Campus Reform to learn about the latest verbal (and nonverbal) transgressions: “microassaults,” “microinsults’ & “microinvalidations”:
Students in at least one Rutgers University residence hall are being encouraged to use only language that is “helpful” and “necessary” to avoid committing microaggressions.
The display, photos of which were obtained by Campus Reform, is titled “Language Matters: Think,” and was placed in the College Avenue Apartments by a resident assistant, according to a current resident of the building who does not wish to be identified.
Erected as part of the university’s “Language Matters” campaign, the bulletin board instructs students to ask themselves whether their choice of words is “true,” “helpful,” “inspiring,” “necessary,” and “kind” before speaking out, and also includes a list of potentially-offensive terms, such as “retarded” and “illegal aliens.”
These kids are going to be in for a rude awakening, as well as possible multiple nervous breakdowns, when they enter the real world (was that a microagression, micro insult, or microassault? I’m so confused).
The board warns students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which include “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations.”
The “Language Matters” website includes a presentation similar in nature to the flyer, outlining the “big impact” of “little things” and providing examples of the three types of microaggressions.
A microassault may include “avoiding someone,” for instance, while an example of a microinsult is telling someone they are strong for a girl. A microinvalidation, meanwhile, could involve asking an Asian or Latino person where they are from.
Simply avoiding offensive language, however, is not enough according to Rutgers, which claims that microaggressions can also be “nonverbal” and “environmental,” but fails to elaborate further.
Meanwhile, let’s take a closer look at the bulletin itself. This appears to me to be more akin to how you’d communicate with preschool kids, as opposed to young adults.
Of course, it isn’t at all surprising that this emerged from Rutgers. Recall what we learned in last year’s post, Rutgers University Warns Students – “There is No Such Thing as Free Speech”:
Rutgers University students, you are being watched.
That appears to be the message a Rutgers.edu web page would like the campus community to absorb. The web page is maintained by the Bias Prevention & Education Committee, which chillingly warns students that there is “no such thing as ‘free’ speech,” and to “think before you speak.”
In Liberty (am I still allowed to say that?),
Michael Krieger
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The self-indulgent narcissistic self-importance “I’m offended” fest continues unabated.
The good news is that it’s become so absurd that most of these kids see it for what it is.
It’s so odd that college students now constitute the morality police.
I remember when it was grandmas and Christian mothers that were leading the censorship charge against Gwar!, Dungeons & Dragons and 2LiveCrew… Ice-T and Body Count…
Wow…
With Gene Wilder’s recent passing, do you think that a theater-full of these kids would just spontaneously combust if they showed Blazing Saddles?
It’s the faculty, Night. Not the students.
Yes, don’t blame kids for be kids, this is about conditioning and manipulation. It is playing right into the hands of the manipulators to blame the victims.
I prefer macroaggression, like fuck off.
It’s probably a good thing that I’m not paying for a Rutgers “education.” There’d be nothing “micro” about my aggression when I asked for my money back…
That’s the point, people need to start to push back, maybe Trump is the catalyst, or his type of aggression.
This is getting ridiculous. And I’m usually all for awareness and personal accountability. There’s nothing wrong with encouraging kids to be better to each other, I myself work at it, as should everyone. But the coercive and condescending tone is what irks me; you can’t force people to be nice, it’s a decision that must be made by oneself.
And to be honest, a lot of the disparaging comments I’ve received for being different has made me badass and resilient and dedicated to pursue my dreams. What doesn’t kill ya….
Don’t forget the microhorsecrap being spewed by the resident assistants
Allow public education to indoctrinate your children to ensure they are obedient servants of the elite-class overlords and their army of politicians and bureaucrats who ensure the masses of common folks behave in a manner that keeps the current scam that is the USA functioning in a manner that ensures the majority of national wealth rises to the highest levels of the socioeconomic hierarchy.
Or… prepare with fellow patriots for the much-needed Revolutionary War Two.
It is indeed telling that the most obedient Americans today are the youth, whether is docility to war or no jobs, or desired anarchy by groups like BLM, they play their roles what ever the masters tell them. They were the ones crying over Brexit, even they have been the hardest hit by globalism. Shows the power of “social media” in controlling young minds.
“Micro-aggressions can be nonverbal.”
Hm, thought-crime. Why does that sound so familiar..
Don’t put this on the students for GOD’S sake, this is from the top down. The desire to hyper sensitize college students is a program, an agenda, otherwise it would be just at a few colleges here and there, but is is a agenda. Universities are a place to mold, condition, just like high school, its just we pay out of our pockets for this pleasure. George Soros and his crowd always have a dog in the fight, always pushing for ways to destroy western society.
Good lord. What are these snowflakes going to do in the real world?? I can just see it. First job interview. “And what strengths do you bring to our organization?” Well I can identify very subtle microaggressions”. ” Super, well lets see if you can identify macroaggressions just as well. GET OUT OF MY OFFICE AND STOP WASTING MY TIME.”