Andrew Klavan: The Newest Threat on College Campuses: Microaggression

In this special episode, our brave and compassionate host takes a look at some real-life examples of microaggression and the deep harm such assaults can really do. See the video and transcript below:  

TRANSCRIPT:

OUR MICRO-AGGRESSIVE UNIVERSITIES

I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.

Well, it’s back to school time and all across our country, college students are suffering from an insidious form of oppression called microaggressions.  These are defined as commonplace verbal or, behavioral indignities…  that communicate racist or sexist slights or insults…”

Microaggressions take place when, for instance, a woman sees a black male and clutches her purse more tightly making it too damn hard for him to snatch the thing away from her… or when two men hear a woman speaking and look at one another like this [makes a face] the universal sign language for “irrational woman.”  So don’t let them see you do that because you know women.  [makes the face]

To combat the tragedy of microagression, we here at the Revolting Truth have collected some real life MA experiences and submitted them to experts for commentary and advice. Trigger warning:  these are genuine examples of microaggression and may cause you to experience some of the terrifying injustice of being a minority or female college student in today’s America.

All right, here’s one from the website, The MicroAgressions Project:  [quote] “I wanted to get my nephew a My Little Pony coloring book since I like MLP…  My brother, however, objected…  I ended up getting my nephew a Batman one, but I don’t like Batman.  It made me feel angry and sad that my brother is so entrenched in stereotypical gender roles.”

Wow.  We submitted this sad story to Aran, an Iraqi Yazidi women, who sent this reply:

“Dear American College student.  I am very sorry to hear of your My Little Pony incident.  I perhaps can identify with some of your suffering as I was forced to watch while Islamists murdered my beloved husband and children before selling me into sexual slavery.  Like you, I too felt forced into stereotypical gender roles.  I hope your nephew enjoys his Batman.”

Here’s another tragic tale of micro-aggressive woe from a powerful performance piece called I Too Am Harvard:  [quote] “I am a Harvard university student of mixed race, and people sometimes come right up to me and ask, ‘What are you?’”

We sent this description to our friend Lisa in the Central African Republic.  Lisa gave this helpful reply:

“Dear Harvard student.  How rude to be asked what race you are. It reminds me of the time I was hunted down by Muslim Seleka Rebels, dragged into the jungle and raped for hours before being set on fire.  Even though I know how difficult it is there, I too sometimes dream of going to Harvard.”

Well, thanks to Lisa for that sympathetic reply.  Here’s one more true life atrocity from an American female pre-med student.  [quote]  “My MCAT instructor keeps referring to the unnamed writers of certain passages with male pronouns. It made me feel stupid and unvalued…”

Our correspondent Fairly in Afghanistan responds…  “Dear American pre-med student.  How terrible to have to overcome such difficulty as male pronouns in getting to go to school.  I too have suffered difficulties getting to school when men rode by on motorbikes and threw acid in my face.  Of course this is nothing compared to male pronouns, but I do sort of miss my face sometimes. I used to be very pretty.”

Well, I hope this advice has been helpful to all those American college students suffering from microaggression.  We here at the Revolting Truth understand that this sort of savage oppression can really harsh your buzz, especially if you already have a hangover and crabs.

I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.

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  • http://littlenotesfromparis.blogspot.fr/ Rita

    I am grinning through gritted teeth, and yet I fear that even Andrew Klavan’s hammer-the-idiots-without-too-much-subtlety-method might fly right over the heads of the targeted idiots.

    • Softly Bob

      It will. They’re not the brightest bunch of people.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      What on Earth is going on at the universities, where everyone, it seems, is encouraged to strike the most absurd, self-absorbed and sanctimonious poses – and then take them seriously?

      It’s quite bewildering, this rush to set in stone the attitudes of adolescence.

      I suppose it’s easier than growing up, but what a disservice it is, that is being inflicted on the young, when their teachers lack the moral clarity to encourage adult sensibilities.

      • johnlittle

        Nice comment Michael. The bad news is that adulthood is rapidly leaving our country. Relationships have become commodified, and commercialism rules. Best, JL

    • DrMaxHathaway

      Flying over their heads is not the issue.

      These people are being trained in straining at gnats of supposedly conservative “oppression” while swallowing the whole camel of Islam, Marxism, and Sharia.

  • Trond Larsen

    I felt really sorry for the Harvard woman, perhaps if you were not so sarcastic you might see through your own ridiculous preconceptions set up a relief fund for her, so as to ease her suffering and mental anguish. ;-)

  • The March Hare

    “especially if you already have a hang over and crabs”

    Off the wall and on the mark.

  • Cleetus

    Not too long ago students at UCLA staged a sit in demonstration to protest the microagression of a professor who had the gall to correct a black student’s paper for grammar and spelling. To make matters worse, the professor used red ink for his comments instead of the more calm colors of purple. (http://downtrend.com/71superb/professor-called-racist-for-correcting-black-students-grammar-and-punctuation/) It should speak volumes that black students feel that they are unlike every other student in that they should not feel constrained by rules of grammar or spelling.

  • Libslayer

    After micro aggressions: nano aggressions.
    It’s coming.

  • Mo86

    How can college students keep up with their studying with all this victim-hood parading of theirs? I get exhausted just reading and trying to understand this garbage.

    How can they even function, when EVERYTHING that’s said or done to them – directly or indirectly – makes them feel bad? It’s insanity! How are they going to function when they have to get a job? What are they going to do when they find themselves among bosses or coworkers who don’t walk on eggshells with everything they say and do, so as not to hurt their little feelings?

    My God, what a bunch of insufferable, whiny, crybabies! I’ve seen grade school kids with higher maturity levels than this!

  • bluwaterkayaker

    thank you for telling it like it is.

  • Scot Fourowls

    Microagression: postmodernist insanity-of-normality political correctness run amok, once again. Asinine microaggression. If you are around strangers unknown to you because of multiculturism, sometimes it might be a good experience but it is ridiculous to suggest that reasonable self-protective personal profiling will be unnecessary at other times because, well, it’s what we teach 3-year-olds: “Stranger danger.” Criminals unknown to us don’t just harm children but also other adults, and college students, especially women like my daughter, are greatly at risk on campuses from stranger danger. Have people in general gone insane?

    With the IS threat to have blood run in America’s streets, and after seeing the IS jihadis holding up severed heads in online news photos, if I see a bearded male who looks like a potential jihadi in the US where I want to go jogging alone, for instance, I turn on my heel and go quickly in the other direction. So sue me. I’m profiling on typical male religious (Salafi Islamic) outward appearance but not racial grounds, in that all of the jihadis holding severed heads that I’ve seen have the unkempt beard associated visually with the IS (Islamic State) guys (of all races, mainly Arabic but also including white guys from Western countries) who are fond in their evil way of beheading other men. If I am out and about and see an unknown person who looks scruffy and like a potential thief, I tend to profile based on what I know about crime statistics and hold my wallet close. If I were a woman out alone, with what is true about greater rates of more serious violence being committed by men against women (and against other men) than by women against men, I’d take protective care, clutch my purse, maybe turn and go the other way if I saw one or more men who seem at all suspect of any size, color or race—a personal choice, not the government operating, but our individual freedom to assess the risks.

  • truebearing

    Well done, sir!

    But I have to protest, as your Nano-Aggression toward me as a reader has left me feeling that America is full of imbeciles and idiots. Please refrain from exposing the truth with such caustic irony. Now I’m afraid I will have to see my psychologist, astrologist, palm reader, yoga instructor, herbalist, and life coach to regain my equilibrium and reason to live.

  • herb benty

    Professors are those the Bible says are, “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools”. Human wisdom is nothing compared to God’s wisdom. And the “education” establishment has abandoned God for idiotic evolution. Watch America sink.

    • UCSPanther

      It runs way deeper than just teaching evolution. They are actually getting to the point to where they are scorning the scientific method as it was laid out in favor of political dogma (As illustrated by the various attempts to silence global warming skeptics and supress data that does not support their narrative). It is less about science, more about the Party Line.

      When a rabid leftist declares that they are “educated”, they are really saying that they are “indoctrinated”…

  • Wilkins Micawber

    Liberals are basically stupid people. Oh, I don’t care how educated they are. An
    education is no indication of intelligence. Anyway, they are not educated. They
    are credentialed. Education implies acquisition of knowledge that is different,
    diverse and ever-growing. It involves opening up oneself to different opinions
    and ideas. Leftists simply marinade in their own liberal juice and become so
    saturated that any divergent view is heresy. If a liberal believes something to
    be true it IS true and therefore can never be considered a lie. It’s just how
    they think. It works the same way with hate. Liberals will never recognize hate
    in themselves because if they think it can’t possibly be considered hate. It’s
    just how they think. Or don’t think, to be more accurate.

    • lies die

      That was outstanding. Well done.

    • JayWye

      it appears to me that “progressives” are mainly uninformed,they assume so much that just isn’t true. there’s so much they DON’T know,yet they emotionally blurt out the wackiest statements,and then try to defend them.
      they seem to rely on their imagination more than any common sense they may have.

  • Demo P. Seal; PouponMarks

    Micro-aggression is so small, it cannot be measured or perceived. Non withstanding, it is the basis for a policy to restrict the First Amendment. Public horsewhipping or commit to a facility for the criminally insane is the correct response to this dreck and Scheisse.

  • lies die

    Love it! again.

  • andrewwhitehead

    This would be funny if it wasn’t true.

  • James_IIa

    When we eliminate micro-aggression we can begin to combat nano-aggression.

  • JayWye

    a solution for microaggression;
    grow a backbone,and don’t be so hypersensitive.
    things aren’t always as you may imagine.
    (especially for “progressives”.)

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  • JayWye

    definitely. make the issue SO hot,they want to run away.

  • Danielies Rodricus Ortis

    Isn’t it an argumental fallacy to say “someone has it worse than you”?

    • GhostFlame

      No. Psychiatrists use this technique all the time. Though it may depend whether male pronouns are being used.

  • mtnhikerdude

    What can I say they are emulating their professors.