“Microaggression” and Free Speech on Campus

pcarvious · 2011-12-10T06:41:00+00:00

Micro aggression, where everythings made up and points don't matter.

As a measure of societal tendencies micro aggression is a poor one. It can't be easily operationalized, nor can it be examined easily. This is because it's a wide umbrella or category that is contingent on an abstract concept to create a view point. Oppression, as it's academically defined now: means having someone with power be prejudiced against you. Power is defined as the ability to make others do what you want:

If someone is oppressing others through non manual communication, then it begs the question: what specifically is being oppressed and does the person know they're doing it?

The causality links are highly questionable. The causal chain is worse.

aetheralloy · 2011-12-10T06:49:00+00:00

I'm having a hard time seeing the threat to freedom of speech from what seems to be essentially "Hey, let's try to think about how the way we communicate affects other people!"

Title	“Microaggression” and Free Speech on Campus
Author	warkin
Upvotes	6
Comments	11
Date	December 10, 2011 6:14 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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