Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism

feel like the teacher who shows that poem their high school students is begging for disciplinary action

heh

what a bunch of babies

though I guess that's the point

my hs library had a copy of Ginsberg's collected works and senior year a guy who'd been to a lit camp thing over the summer showed it to a few of us, and I was wowed by it, thought "Howl" was so gorgeous, and I wanted to show it to a few other people and the guy looked me in the eye and said, don't do that, they're not ready for it, and I didn't, and I thank that guy all the time both for introducing me to Ginsberg and a whole other world of literature but also for helping me understand how provocation works better than I would have otherwise.

lol adios, teach

gonna hafta rubber room ya son

Goodbye, Mr. Drips

http://theithacan.org/news/ic-sga-passes-bill-to-create-system-to-report-microaggressions/

i'm so glad ILX is the only permanent record of my social clumsiness

However, junior Kyle James, vice president of communications and co-sponsor of the bill, said those reporting a microaggression would likely have to reveal their identity if they wanted to pursue any legal action.

New Yorker cartoon in the making:

"What are you in for?"

"I asked someone 'Where are you really from?'"

in the jewish community "where are you really from?" == "where is your family originally from before they immigrated here?" (ie germany, pale of settlement, morocco, iran, bukhara, etc) i guess it means something different in sj land

is your contempt for "sjws" now so determinative that casual racism is a complete enigma to you

no i'm sure everyone who says "where are you really from?" means it maliciously to mock the person for looking different than them and has nothing to do w/ an inquiry about where their family is from

nobody asks me where i'm "really" from, i'm white

they probably don't give a shit about where you're from bc you look like every other white dude

oh another american with german ancestry wow

'a plainsman, by the look of you'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S07Bp2wBylw

People don't ask me where I'm from because the name of my city is tattooed on my face

"your race is interesting to me right this second, and it does not belong here, discuss it with me politely"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjjNOwdvVS4

i understand that some ppl are offended about being asked about their family heritage but i am going to remain skeptical that it's intended as a "microaggression."

"how dare you be interested in me and my background. fuck you."

the whole concept of "microaggression", take is as you will, or really white supremacy in toto, is that intent is immaterial

"microaggressions" tenuous relationship to reality is a bug imo, not a feature

well, we all learn who our friends are one way or another

is there a clear line between microaggression and garden-variety passive aggression? or is MA distinguished as being limited only to the ways race/class/gender are baked into minor social interactions?

You know some troll is going to be reporting slights to his Anglo Saxon Cis background ten times a day

I object to "microaggression" on the grounds that it's a silly word. I give it two more years before no one with a clue still says it, and five more before nobody says it and it becomes terminology of the past.

UNLESS: if people start attaching "micro" willy-nilly to other nominalizations, then all bets are off. I don't see it coming but who knows, maybe we are dumb enough as a people to start saying "microinvitation" "microsalutation" "microencouragement" "microvalidation". Yikes. Gives me the Micro Heebee Jeebees.

Wait till the intelligent nanotech comes for us. Once we experience nanoaggressions, we will regard microaggressions with loving nostalgia.

come on, mordy

when it's said to people of color, it means "account for your existence." i don't need anything done to people who are dumb in that way, but i'm going to call them dumb.

like the lady who told me that i speak "really well english" when she had come to the end of a bewildering barrage of such questions that one time in college. she was dumb.

idk obv in a country where birtherism is a thing it would be a mistake to underestimate ppl so I can't account for every incident but in my world of Jewish ppl it is a question that is asked in some form a lot and it always means what is Do not come out of your room again

Lol omg that is hilarious my phone took my talking to my daughter as dictation and posted that's good enough reason for me to say good night lol

haha aw

I always assumed the question was a means for dummies to determine from which national drawer to pull out their cheesy stereotypical lines

lol Mordy.

I always assumed the question was a means for dummies to determine from which national drawer to pull out their cheesy stereotypical lines

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"Hey there. Where are you from? Cool, Asheville? Awesome, wanna fuck?"

more like "Do you know how make sushi? I love to eat raw fish."

"microaggressions" always makes me think of micro machines and I just imagine someone being racist really fast.

and it always means what is Do not come out of your room again

:)

I'm just saying it's a question that gets asked in earnest MISSY You Are in Timeout!!!

#NoDads has never been more relevant

I think the discourse around race on campus has become Okay, five more minutes, but then you are getting dressed no complaining

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/closing-campus-mind_899943.html

i have a friend who has been sharing horror stories w/ me from their education grad program and i wonder if these programs are the real problems - not squabbling undergrads but entire departments that have signed onto exclusive ideological projects

Same as it ever was

i know someone that attended that school and program--and from her reports it definitely seemed...intense. there were a LOT of little blowups on facebook groups, confrontations with faculty, etc. im sure this article will provoke quite a hubbub there. social work strikes me as a special case, however, since it's "activist" by its very nature and therefore a certain amount of ideological exclusion is inevitable and maybe necessary. this is ok so long as we aren't forced to accept that social workers have the final say on social reality.

like, there's plenty of ideological chaos in those programs, but if conservatism (broadly defined) were to be included i dont think the field could claim much coherence!

there are conservatives who spend all their time helping the less fortunate, and even some who think laissez fair economics promotes economic equality -- or at least has the power to raise the median living standard.

these people are deluded, and are clearly ignoring glaring contradictions in their own worldview but then again don't we all. i think they should still be allowed to become social workers. that is a field that calls for people to be kind and helpful on an individual basis, and political orientation doesn't tell you much about someone's capacity to be those things