Rutgers: to avoid microaggressions, only speak when 'necessary'

[Cow Poke]

Rutgers: to avoid microaggressions, only speak when 'necessary'

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.

Victims of microaggressions are “more at risk for illness & decreased immune system.” Tweet This

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.”

The board warns students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which include “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations.”

Somebody needs to find this idiot resident assistant who came up with this really dumb idea, take them into a 'safe space', politely issue a trigger warning, then beat the living daylights out of them!

(verbally, of course - no physical violence)


Sheeeesh!!!!!

[rogue06]

Rutgers: to avoid microaggressions, only speak when 'necessary'

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.

Victims of microaggressions are “more at risk for illness & decreased immune system.” Tweet This

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.”

The board warns students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which include “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations.”

Somebody needs to find this idiot resident assistant who came up with this really dumb idea, take them into a 'safe space', politely issue a trigger warning, then beat the living daylights out of them!

(verbally, of course - no physical violence)


Sheeeesh!!!!!

Always found it interesting how negative portrayals of conservatives or Christians is never considered to be “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations" but rather expressions of free speech. George Orwell's Animal Farm expressed the disparity well:

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[Cow Poke]

According to the display, even though microaggressions are “not the same thing as hate crimes or overt bigotry,” they still affect victims “physically, emotionally, [and] behaviorally,” placing them “more at risk for illness & decreased immune system.”

Representatives for Rutgers are currently looking into the matter for Campus Reform, and have promised to provide additional details about the "Language Matters" bulletin board. This article will be updated once that information is received.

Can anybody even imagine one of these little snowflakes in Jack Webb's world?

[rogue06]

I won't be surprised if the word "snowflake" starts getting banned from some campuses before the end of this school year.

[seer]

Can anybody even imagine one of these little snowflakes in Jack Webb's world?

Or in the Corps of my day...

[Yttrium]

Those Rutgers twerps. Training students to be wimps in a capitalistic society. Buncha pansies.

[Teallaura]

Rutgers: to avoid microaggressions, only speak when 'necessary'

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.

Victims of microaggressions are “more at risk for illness & decreased immune system.” Tweet This

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.”

The board warns students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which include “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations.”

Somebody needs to find this idiot resident assistant who came up with this really dumb idea, take them into a 'safe space', politely issue a trigger warning, then beat the living daylights out of them!

(verbally, of course - no physical violence)


Sheeeesh!!!!!

How do you NOT commit a 'micro' - or macro, for that matter - aggression just talking about this nonsense?

[KingsGambit]

I know plenty of people who should only talk when necessary.

[Teallaura]

I know plenty of people who should only talk when necessary.

[Sparko]

Someone needs to tell them the idea is retarded

[One Bad Pig]

College students should be seen and not heard.

[MaxVel]

I'd tell them your helpful and inspiring idea, Sparko, but I have a really bad cold. Maybe my immune system has been decreased. That, and I could get arrested as an illegal alien if I went there

[rogue06]

I know plenty of people who should only talk when necessary.

This is about , isn't it?

[Cow Poke]

This is about , isn't it?

Ya know, you can't win - I have gotten in trouble from Mrs CP for NOT talking.

[TheWall]

It's like Huxley and Orwell nightmares had a baby.