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Let's all avoid microaggressions

This deliberate attempt to place accusations based upon branding one a racist should never be met with an apology. To hell with them. They’ve pushed so hard now that it’s coming right back into their collective faces.
 
As usual, in the course of some people's ignorance, a bunch of straw men get made up to defend against something that isn't even being imposed.

Here's a video about microaggressions that even a 5 year old can understand.

I'm not someone who talks about this subject all the time or really engages in activism about it, but I do witness people (usually white, male) making stupid comments toward minorities like these all the time, and I live in a so-called "liberal" area that prides itself on being PC and understanding.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
First time I have heard of “long time no see” being a micro aggression against Asians, and I have an Asian wife and two Asian kids. I asked my wife wife if she found it offensive and she said, “No, that’s retarded”. I told her “retarded” is also politically incorrect. She asked what “politically incorrect” means. I replied, “ it isn’t important”.
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You do realize that you've committed AT LEAST 2 fire-able microagressions with those 2 comments? What you don't seem to grasp, is that it's not really about whether your Asian wife was/wasn't offended by your comments. Its about the likelihood that some white leftist will be offended! As with the "Redskins" team name, it's up to Caucasian progressives to decide whether or not your comments should offend Asians or native peoples.
 
ModerationNow! said:
You do realize that you've committed AT LEAST 2 fire-able microagressions with those 2 comments? What you don't seem to grasp, is that it's not really about whether your Asian wife was/wasn't offended by your comments. Its about the likelihood that some white leftist will be offended! As with the "Redskins" team name, it's up to Caucasian progressives to decide whether or not your comments should offend Asians or native peoples.
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My impression is that Asians are not really into this victim building that we do, at least not first or second generations.
 
ecofarm said:
You nor she is expected to know everything. But if you don't know the next thing, you might be fined.
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Or fired..... No longer do we only have to worry about losing our jobs, because our company decides to relocate to China or Mexico(thanks Bill Clinton). Now, even if your employer stays in America forever, and you continue to be a valued employee, you may well still be fired for saying something that ends up being the latest microagression du-jour. That is, unless you are a campaign bundled and close personal friend of democrats.... In that case, you can feel free to be a complete dirtbag sex offender who offends everyone he/she comes in contact with. Well, at least a decade or two, until your high ranking Democrat buddies have finished their political careers, then it'll become "less inconvenient" to cover for you anymore...
 
Hawkeye10 said:
My impression is that Asians are not really into this victim building that we do, at least not first or second generations.
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Yeah. They don't fall into the racial victim mindset trap that the left work so hard at setting. Instead, they ignore that garbage, they raise their kids with a 'success mindset', and they do very, VERY well as a result. It's a shame that democrats and their cultural Marxist activists are able to manipulate blacks and Latinos into falling into the victim trap. Because if the democrats weren't so insidiously evil in that way, and if they hadn't blocked civil rights for a hundred years after the civil war, black folks would be far happier and more successful on average, than so many of them are now.
 
TheParser said:
I know that many people snicker at university students as snowflakes for having hurt feelings over what someone says to them.

But I do think that in our daily interactions with people, we should be careful NOT to commit a microaggression (i.e., an unintended insult).


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1. If you have a very good Asian friend who speaks English even better than you, it would NOT be wise to greet him/her with "Long time no see, dude!"


2. If your best friend is an African American and you two have a heated argument, it would be wise NOT to say in anger: "Well, thanks for finally showing your true colors."


3. A school in Texas has just gotten into hot water because Halloween participants dressed up as undocumented immigrants. Really stupid to do something like that at any time.


4. A former FOX commentator once said quite innocently something like: "I have just eaten at a restaurant that is patronized mostly by [name of an ethnicity]. I was impressed that the patrons were eating and talking in an orderly manner."


a. Of course, he got some flak, but he was able to keep his job. (What brought him down was the MeToo movement.)


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Although I think that President Trump is doing a great job, I do agree that he should watch some of his words, for he is committing microaggressions that do really hurt people's feelings.
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The title to this thread is a microaggression.
 
ModerationNow! said:
Yeah. They don't fall into the racial victim mindset trap that the left work so hard at setting. Instead, they ignore that garbage, they raise their kids with a 'success mindset', and they do very, VERY well as a result. It's a shame that democrats and their cultural Marxist activists are able to manipulate blacks and Latinos into falling into the victim trap. Because if the democrats weren't so insidiously evil in that way, and if they hadn't blocked civil rights for a hundred years after the civil war, black folks would be far happier and more successful on average, than so many of them are now.
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My sons best friend in HS was this very smart black boy (graduated #3 in his class), one of five kids, dad black career Army first soldier then civilian employee, mom a college administrator.......all of the kids are now university grads with one being a doctor and one a scientist and I cant remember what the rest do......he told me that he was told from earliest memory that there will never in their house be any blaming failure to get the job done on being black. I asked him if the parents told him that he had to go to University and he said no, but that it was always understood that all of the kids will be successful adults.....which I like because I was always thinking that I was raising adults not raising kids.

Anyways....
 
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