Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Occidental College wants to document all "microaggressions" in campus speech
Occidental College in Los Angeles wants students to
help it build a “database” of “microaggressions” or statements that should not
be acceptable on campus because they tend to add up to attitudes of
discrimination against minorities.
Reason TV has a video where some students are
interviewed about what could constitute “microaggressions”.
Examples of possible microaggressions include saying
“Bless you” to a sneeze, saying “all lives matter”, or saying the most
qualified person should be hired for a job or admitted to college without
regard to race.
Students tended to waffle on the importance of free
speech. One African American woman says that free speech usually comes from
those already in power, and not everything said has equal weight. How would that apply to my own books, blogs
and social media sites? Some students seemed more interest in communal equality
than freedom. Maybe they should consider
joining income-sharing intentional communities. Mention was made of the
expectation of media-free zones.
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe and his
resignation got some attention.
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