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Post by flutiewasrejected on Apr 24, 2017 10:16:36 GMT -5
I'm ALL for the celebration of people of all different creeds, colors, sexual orientation, you name it. I fall into a minority camp myself! But this "micro aggression" crap, are you kidding me?? This is an email that was sent to students—could also be titled "Why Trump Won". This, by the way, is coming from a '15 grad. It's sad the kind of culture that is being ushered in by Leftist administrators / professors. If anything, a "micro aggression week" further polarizes students and turns the "safe space culture" from a irrational bubble to a impenetrable glass ball of ignorance.
Email:
Holy Cross Campaign Against Microaggressions*
*Microaggressions are the casual degradation of any marginalized group
Ex: Can I touch your hair? What’s your real sexuality? Where are you really from?
Words Matter.
What we say has the power to divide or unite, to affirm or degrade, to include or exclude.
Join social justice-minded RSO’s (the Social Justice Coalition) and the SGA Executive Cabinet
to combat the use of microaggressions on campus April 24th - 28th. Follow us on facebook, too!
Monday
Anti-Microaggression Teach-In 4:30PM-6PM in Hogan 519 (Free Pizza and T-Shirts)
All Week
Lobby Tables: Come take an implicit bias test, get a T-Shirt!
Interactive Microaggression Awareness Boards in Cool Beans, Cool Beans 2, and the Science Café.
Daily RSO Email Blasts concerning specific microaggressions affecting various communities (racial, gender, sexual, religious, etc)
Friday
Brown-Bag Debrief in the Hub
Special Performance: "Breaking the Closet," a show featuring original, tell-all, emotional, and humorous queer narratives from Holy Cross Students!
5pm in Loyola Ballroom
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 24, 2017 10:23:00 GMT -5
I am uncomfortable with this sort of compartmentalization. Does that make this week one huge "microaggression" for me?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 24, 2017 10:34:01 GMT -5
This is absolute insanity, but it is becoming the norm as our society continues its headlong slide into the abyss
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 24, 2017 10:57:22 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 24, 2017 11:09:44 GMT -5
Basically, the article quotes Chronicle of Higher Education sources that have found:
1. the link between implicit bias and discriminatory behavior is weaker than previously thought (as in...it is tough to find any causal relationship at all)
2. changes in implicit bias do little to alter a person's behavior
I wonder if these two points will be covered to those taking information away from what may well be a week long waste of time? HC is not on the cutting edge here, but seems to be trailing behind current research since having this week fits a PC agenda. Sad.
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Post by beaven302 on Apr 24, 2017 11:09:53 GMT -5
This is absolute insanity, but it is becoming the norm as our society continues its headlong slide into the abyss I'd prefer to think that it's just another example of trendy thinking and herd mentality in academia. My hope is that the old truism about trends and fashions inevitably changing applies to this nonsense. Hopefully, in the future the concept of "microaggressions" an other related concepts will be consigned to the ash heap of campus history. |
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Post by gks on Apr 24, 2017 11:20:36 GMT -5
These people need a giant dose of deal with it.
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Post by alum on Apr 24, 2017 12:24:02 GMT -5
So a table is being set up in Hogan and a group is attempting to educate their fellow students about something that matters to them? I would assume that students who are not interested will walk on by.
It seems to me that this is speech that offends some here on the board. If you don't like speech, the answer is more speech, not less, so complain away but I suspect we will all be in trouble with Dean Wormer soon if this goes anywhere.
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Post by ncaam on Apr 24, 2017 12:33:09 GMT -5
Would it be ok to set up a table next to them with an opposing view?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 24, 2017 13:03:46 GMT -5
Man, I was really looking forward to getting my free Interactive Microaggression Awareness t-shirt.
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Post by alum on Apr 24, 2017 13:34:03 GMT -5
Would it be ok to set up a table next to them with an opposing view? Of course it would. |
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 24, 2017 17:00:57 GMT -5
Would it be ok to set up a table next to them with an opposing view? Of course it would. Would it, though? I'm not so confident after seeing the unfortunate events at UC Berkeley over the past few months. |
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 24, 2017 17:38:13 GMT -5
In some cases people who are offended by microaggresions display their angst with macroaggression. They feel the end justifies the means, I imagine. I would hope that men and women for others would not fall into that trap.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 24, 2017 17:43:01 GMT -5
As I read the email, this undertaking is student-organized. I would hope it reflects the diversity of interests and views that should exist at a liberal arts college promoting critical thinking. If one seeks homogeneity, try Liberty or Brigham Young.
And having long put student organizing and protest in the rear view mirror, this is tepid tea compared to back when. And as I pointed out to the now absent GoPurp, David Stockman was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard.
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Post by alum on Apr 25, 2017 6:47:25 GMT -5
Would it, though? I'm not so confident after seeing the unfortunate events at UC Berkeley over the past few months. I was speaking for myself when I said that it would be OK to set up another table and take the opposite position. I recognize that some might not agree and that is unfortunate. |
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Post by hc6774 on Apr 25, 2017 8:13:52 GMT -5
As I read the email, this undertaking is student-organized. I would hope it reflects the diversity of interests and views that should exist at a liberal arts college promoting critical thinking. If one seeks homogeneity, try Liberty or Brigham Young. I believe SGA/Executive Cabinet is the student government body... one of it's functions its to parcel out $$ collected as student activity fees, albeit pursuant to guidelines established by the Student Affairs Office.... follow the $$  |
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Post by hchoops on Apr 25, 2017 10:35:40 GMT -5
There are far more alarming goings on in our country for this to raise even minimal attention.
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 25, 2017 10:44:11 GMT -5
There are far more alarming goings on in our country for this to raise even minimal attention. A post to keep us grounded. But, sadly, the same might alsol be said about everything here on CROSSPORTS. |
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Post by lou on Apr 25, 2017 12:11:34 GMT -5
I think I'm finally starting to understand at least a part of this discussion. For example, this coming from a '15 grad, is not the email, but the post itself ... ok, carry on, I'm still reading
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Post by Chu Chu on Apr 25, 2017 13:49:14 GMT -5
Keep calm and carry on.
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