“Microaggression” list scorns would-be bigots
An official University of California list of racist “microaggressions” asserts that saying “I’m not racist” is racist.
The university guide defines microaggressions as, “everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.”
Examples listed on the university’s official website include telling someone, “you speak English very well,” telling an Asian person that they are good at math and insisting that “America is a melting pot”.
Using the phrase, “I’m not racist, I have several black friends” is also listed as an example of “racism”.
Radio host Dennis Prager highlighted some other examples, which include saying, “There is only one race, the human race,” and also remarking, “I believe the most qualified person should get the job.” Thinking that, “America is the land of opportunity” is also racist, according to the guide.
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5 comments:
The whole world is racist,so what.
Does any really care about anything that comes out of CA? I sure do not!!
The only racist's I ever where all Democrats black and white.
It's going to come to a point where the left wing nuts are going to lay so much guilt on whitey that they are going to cave in and admit they are racist regardless if they are or not.
Reminds me of the "Rap & Dap" military programs in the 70's, that were initiated to try and rectify the racial divisions in the Army. They were mandatory classes that basically tried to tell us that all of us, black and white, were racist. The instructors made the same observations of what we say about racism, and the way we say it, is an indicator of racism. Denying you are racist, and giving examples of how you are not racist, was supposedly an indicator of racism. The same was said of both Blacks and Whites. I listened, because I had to, but the classes left me a little confused. If a soldier thought he wasn't racist before he was forced to take the class, he was taught that he was one before the class was over. I don't know if that approach solved any of the racial tensions in the military at that time in history, but I didn't see any change during my service.
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