Microaggressions at UCLA

so a few weeks ago in The Washington Post there was an article about the University of California teaching faculty members not to criticize race-based affirmative action call America our melting pots and more the author who teaches at the University of California says that they're condemning microaggressions supposed brief subtle verbal or nonverbal exchanges that send denigrating messages to a recipient because of his or her group membership such as race gender age or socioeconomic status such microaggressions the argument goes can lead to a hostile learning environments which the University of California and the federal government uses legally actionable this is stuff you could get disciplined or fired for especially if you aren't a tenured faculty member clearly I needed to know our microaggression really was so I did some digging on their various websites and affiliated websites and I found a few interesting things I thought it's a good starting point was microaggressions what do you need to know if you've ever felt slighted or put down by something someone has said or expressed through a glance or other suggestive response you may have been the target of something known as a microaggression wow that is a question so broad that almost every human being on earth could probably respond yes to it oftentimes unconscious and automatic microaggressions are brief subtle verbal or nonverbal exchanges that send denigrating messages to the recipient because of his or her group membership the initiator of the message may be unaware that he or she has engaged in a behavior that is cumulative one of a lifetime of demeaning messages that erodes its victims confident I already have a problem with this definition you can't send a denigrating message if you are unaware that you are apparently sending a denigrating message this is one of those cases where offense is never given it's always taken Carola Suarez or zoko a professor at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and information studies and a psychologist by training suggests that microaggressions are usually expressed by someone in authority such offenses are typically enacted by person on a more privilege status which is generally the majority culture on to those in minority groups the person who doesn't may not necessarily mean anything by it but little by little it wears away it's a person's well-being and suggests to them that they don't belong well there are a few presuppositions here that I simply don't agree with the first one being that this is very much a case of worst case scenario not not only is being exotic not always a bad thing but it also assumes that this person knows once the victim of the microaggression is feeling I mean she says hey where's a way a person's well-being and suggests to them that they don't belong well you don't know that's what it suggests at best Carola suarez or zoko that's what it suggests to you and frankly I find that to be a reflection of your mind and you're quite evidently negative personality than anything else and they say this is a Forces brat who's had a lot of contact with non British people who are very proud to be different when hanging out with us they take a great deal of pride in being different I can't believe I have to say this but that is what diversity is anyway she goes on to say that it's hard to determine exactly how microaggressions may come to infect our psychological makeup but you're absolutely going to take action on the assumption that they do microaggressions are likely an enacted form of implicit bias they grant of many different perceptions we have internalized over the process of our socialization so Suarez or zoko or osco sorry whatever this oh that's a microaggression I'm so sorry this behavior is learned in the home through the media picked up from our peers and others and it's at work on many different levels in society but we can't determine exactly how or what the actual effect is so UCLA professor and associate dean for equality and diversity there's a thing that sounds like it's a necessary position Daniels Solorzano whose work in the field of education is framed by a sociological perspective microaggressions are a particularly damaging form of systemic racism use the disempower minorities or others who live in the margins of society they are layered assault based on a person's color race gender class sexuality language immigration status phenotype accent or surname except most people don't know they're doing them if they're doing them at all and we can't determine exactly how microaggressions may come to infect our psychological makeup in fact we can't really prove that they do anything at all but you're going to assume that they are all of these things again worst case scenario springs to mind microaggressions are cumulative in nature and can take a psychological physiological or even an academic toll on people of color except you can't prove this and in fact it doesn't seem like you're even trying to prove this which is interesting given how you'll use critical theory later on to try and justify and defend this but we'll get to that given the diverse racial and socio-cultural makeup of student populations in schools and on college campuses nationwide microaggressions present a serious and growing concern particularly given their potential to de minute or even invalidate a learning experience while proving it in the classroom microaggressions are especially harmful because they can create a hostile learning environment ultimately they may undermine a student's ability to succeed academically well may but do they and I get the feeling that they don't and if they are undermining a particular student's ability to succeed academically I suspect they on the very least of that students worries having led a study examining microaggressions in community college classrooms Suarez Orozco and her team of research is sought to observe and record real-time coverts microaggressions what they found was daunting microaggressions happened in 1/3 of the classrooms that were observed only a third day and faculty instructions from instructors were more likely to enact a microaggression the students were which were reflective of power dynamics in the classroom microaggressions also happened more often in classroom with higher numbers of diverse students microaggressions are not necessarily intentional however and may infect them from unconscious bias for example a teacher may tell a student you speak English very well and intended as a compliment but to the recipient it may underscore a sense of exclusion and in the person isn't part of the mainstream culture that's nonsense that's absolute no sir for a start they may do that well does it or doesn't it the chances are a dozen I can imagine that for 99.999% of students they would never ever think that being complimented on their skills in a second language is an attempt to extract them and isolate them from mainstream culture that's [ __ ] ridiculous Derald wing sue a professor psychology and education at Teachers College Columbia University who has written two books on topic of microaggressions says the microaggressions may appear to be a compliment but contain a meta communication or a hidden insult towards target groups to which it is delivered and are outside the level of conscious awareness of the perpetrator this is the most conspiratorial thing I've ever heard yes well and that the person doesn't know that they're giving an insult and the person the victim receiving it doesn't know they're receiving an insult but you don't seem to understand that compliment contains a meta communication which is a hidden insult towards the person of the target group I mean [ __ ] nonsense this is entirely a case of interpretation and if the person isn't deliberately giving an insult and like you say they don't know they're doing it then it's not there no matter what you think you may think for the worst case story god that's I'm going to take that personally as an offense because I'm an unreasonable idiot that's fine but that doesn't mean other people should deal with that one person's unreasonable paranoid idiocy shouldn't have to be other people's problem so to recognize microaggressions when they happen and stop enacting them towards others professor su outlines five things that we can do one learn constant vigilance of your own biases and fears I mean that sounds good but I really think that what they're actually saying is self police if you think there might be the remotest possibility of someone somewhere being offended by something that you have said or about to say don't say it to experiential reality is important in interacting with people who are different from you in terms of race culture and ethnicity this incidentally is the argument against female four or black spider-man but the problem with all of this is that it's entirely based on experiential reality not objective empirical reality that's true for everyone but if someone's experience say like Professor su here thinks that microaggressions are subtle meta insults that people simply don't know about then it's not that she's being a paranoid lunatic it's that you're not listening to her experiential reality 3 don't be defensive well I have to say it's really hard not to be defensive when someone gives someone else an honest compliment and you tell everyone that it's actually a secret insult that only you can see for be open to discussing your own attitudes and biases and how they might have hurt others or in some sense might reveal bias on your part because there's in no way bias on the part of the professor who's outlining these things for you to do it's none of this is her bias none of this is her paranoia none of this is her reading into things that simply aren't there no no there is no chance that professor su is wrong you are wrong and it comes from your biases and attitudes even if your biases are towards objectivity and empiricism all that means is that you're not accepting the experiential reality of people of color and 5 be an ally stand personally against all forms of bias and discrimination even professor Sue's bias which is what I'm doing right now but what she's actually asking is being activists you need to propagate this peculiar and insidious idea so after finding that very interesting introduction to microaggressions I decided to have a look at a few of the academic papers on the university of california website to see exactly what i could glean about microaggressions and i found it very very closely tied in with critical race theory now for those unaware critical theory is the answer of asking meaningless questions - absolutely stifle any kind of meaningful dialogue on a topic but we'll get some that towards the end of the video I think we should explore the origins of microaggressions so if these papers are correct and I've got no reason to believe they're not the concept of microaggressions was originally developed to discuss race by dr. Chester Pierce Chester Pierce a professor of psychiatry and education at Harvard first introduced microaggressions in 1969 in referring to incessant offensive mechanisms aimed at blacks on a daily basis and which are designed to reduce dilute atomized and encase the hapless into his place in Pearce's case I suppose that place being a professor at Harvard the incessant lesson the black must here is that he is insignificant and irrelevant says the professor from Harvard I'm sorry I just find the the concert laughable that you can be a professor Harvard and these things can be true so there are quite a few quotes from Pierce in the papers that I looked at and I'll read you a few hours to be black in the United States today means to be socially minimized well I suppose maybe in 1970 when he wrote this that might have been true most offensive actions are not gross and crippling they're subtle and stunning the enormity of the complications they caused can be appreciated only one one considers that these subtle blows are delivered incessantly even though any single negotiation of offense can injustice be considered of itself to be relatively innocuous the cumulative effect to the victim and to the victimizer is of an unimaginable magnitude hence the therapist is obliged to pose the idea the defensive mechanisms are usually a microaggression again that sounds rather subjective and paranoid the subtle stunning repetitive event that many whites initiate and control in their dealings with blacks can be termed a racial microaggression any single micro aggression from an offender to a defender or victimizer to victim is in itself minor and inconsequential however the relentless omnipresence of these noxious stimuli is the fabric of black-white relations in America again this was from 1980 so maybe that was true you know maybe 35 years ago that was the case maybe there was a deliberate attempt by whites to initiate and control in their dealings with blacks as he says but the thing is I actually have trouble believing that that's the case given this quote from Pierce from 1970 he says I notice in a class I teacher that after every session a white not a black will come up to me and tell me how the class should be structured or how the chair should be placed or how there should be extra meetings outside the classroom etc one could argue the time hypersensitive if not paranoid about what I know every black will understand is that it's not what the student says in the dialogue it's how he approaches me how he talks to me how he seems to regard me I was patronized I was told by my own perceptual distortions perhaps that's all though I'm a full professor on two faculties at a prestigious university to him I was no more than a big black [ __ ] I had to be instructed and directed as how to render him more pleasure I think that Chester Pearce knows that he was being paranoid I think he knows that it was his own biases and emotions that were causing the reactions that he was having he doesn't even discuss that these students may have had a point there's no chance that the students may have had legitimate criticisms no and he says one could argue that I'm hypersensitive if not paranoid about what I know every black will understand well you don't know that and it was how he talks to me how he seems to regard me well you don't know that you don't know that these people were looking at you in thinking that this is no more than a big black [ __ ] here professor Pierce just puts words in the mouths of people who may well have been approaching him with the best of intentions they could have legitimately seen a problem and I thought well he's a reasonable man I will just explain what I think he is overlooked so so far the concept of microaggressions appears to be a complete farce it appears to be completely predicated on the idea that the people you are dealing with in everyday life are secretly very vile and actually want to subtly hurt you in many ways that they themselves aren't even consciously aware of the concept was created by a man who confesses that he may well sound paranoid and that it is indeed his own prejudices that are informing his opinion and it seems to be propagated by people who can't really prove their case they can't prove what damage microaggressions do if they do any damage and as has said earlier microaggressions contain apparently meta communications which are communications that are not meant to be given and not aware of being received so I really find myself having a hard time believing any of this especially given the consistent use of weasel words all throughout the documentation that I read mites may could could do well does it that's the question and you can't prove that it does so why should I assume that it does in fact everything I have seen thus far appears to be an argument against assuming that they are real they appear to exist only in the minds of the hypersensitive or extremely paranoid which is why instead of being defended with facts logic reason or evidence they have to defend the concept of microaggressions using critical theory I found two very useful documents on the website of the office of the president of the University of California in Los Angeles tule recognizing microaggressions and the message they send and tool interrupting microaggressions so the first step in addressing microaggressions is to recognize when a microaggression has occurred and what message it may be sending because god forbid that a microaggression didn't occur and didn't send a message so these are broken down into themes microaggression examples and the message that they send and then the example of theme and the third party intervention example so the first one is alien in one's own land when Asian Americans Latino Americans and others who look different or a name differently from the dominant culture are assumed to be foreign-born apparent examples of this are just merely asking where are you from or where were you born complimenting them on their English by saying you speak English very well what are you you're so interesting looking there maybe that one a person asking an Asian American or Latino American to teach them words in their native language are you [ __ ] serious continuing to mispronounce the names of students after students have corrected the person time and time again not willing to listen closely and learn the pronunciation of non English base names well some people and I can speak from experience aren't good at pronouncing foreign names I'm sure there are people who do do it deliberately because there are arseholes everywhere but from my own personal experience [ __ ] you Poland the apparent message being conveyed here is that you are not a true American well maybe but maybe not you are a perpetual foreigner in your own country well again maybe but maybe not and your ethnic racial identity makes you exotic well if you're quite significantly different from the norm around you then yes this will make you exotic unfortunately this is simply the nature of determining characteristics if I move to China the fact that I'm English would be considered exotic deal with it and the third party intervention example after asking someone where are you from if for some reason you feel the need to intervene is I'm just curious what makes you ask that well the answer being a desire to know where that person is from the next one is description of intelligence assigning intelligence to a person of color or a woman based on his or her race or gender microaggression examples you are a credit to your race who the [ __ ] says that apart from social justice warriors and storm [ __ ] Wow how did you become so good at math well is that really something that's racial to an Asian person you must be good in math can you help me with this problem to a woman of color I would never have guessed that you were a scientist come on really who says any of these things the message is of course the people of color are generally not as intelligent as whites all Asians are intelligent too good at maths and science and it's unusual for a woman to have strong mathematical skills essentially they're complaining about stereotypes and the third party intervention to age in person when they're hust if they're good at maths is I heard you say that all Asians are good in math what makes you believe that see another pointless question be not I could see myself conceding these two past examples they are rather unnecessary however when the Themis colorblindness statements that indicate that a white person specifically white no other race does not want to or needs to acknowledge race then I have to start drawing a line microaggression examples are when I look at you I don't see color or how bigoted there is only one race the human race that's awful America is a melting pot I don't believe in race and didn't think anyone ever actually says that denying the experiences of students by questioning the credibility / and validity of their stories you know scepticism and the message is assimilate to the dominant culture as if that's got anything to do with it denying the significance of a person of colors racial ethnic experience in history which is ironically exactly the problem when people in the South were lynching blacks but hey let's get let's keep doing this let's just just carry it on that can't be a bad thing and denying the individual as a racial / cultural being no I just don't want to make it the most relevant thing about them when I have a conversation with them and the critical theorists third party intervention example is the straw man I don't believe in race so what do you believe in can you elaborate these are of course trivial questions that are designed to be pointless and aimless and to lead people around in circles obviously the answer is or what do you believe in well I believe in not judging someone based on characteristics they had no choice in acquiring and can i elaborate no why the [ __ ] should i why are you interrupting me the next theme is the criminality assumption of status a person of colourist presumed to be dangerous criminal or deviant based on his or her race you know exactly the sort of problem that solved by being colorblind and not judging people just based on their race as soon as you meet them the microaggression examples are a white man or woman clutches his/her personal checks wallets as a black and latino person approaches the store owner following a customer of color around the store someone crosses to the other side of the street to avoid a person of color while walking through the halls of the chemistry building professor approaches a postdoctoral student of color and asks if he or she is lost making the assumption that the person who's trying to break into one of the labs yes I I imagine that would be somewhat of a microaggression but again how often does that really happen and the message is that you are a criminal you are going to steal you're poor you do not belong or you are dangerous know that none of those are the message that is given when someone does any of the previous quote microaggressions the message that given is that the person who reacts that way is scared it's actually not an explicit judgement of the person that they are reacting to it's actually a demonstration of their own personal prejudices but microaggressions are for paranoid lunatics who have decided they are going to read far too much into tiny insignificant personal interactions lo and behold there is no third party intervention example for this there's really not all that much you can do when someone reveals that they have some sort of racial prejudice so next we have denial of individual racism sexism heterosexism a statement made when bias is denied again just completely assumes that there is bias it's definitely there the person is guilty but they're just desperately looking for a way of covering up their prejudice microaggression examples of this are I'm not racist I have several black friends as a woman I know what you go through as a racial minority and to a person of color are you sure you were being followed in the store I can't believe it the message is of course I could never be racist because I have friends of color because racists are well known for cultivating lots of friendships with black people in order to hide their racism in fact America's done exactly this thing is it's accused of being a white supremacist Society and they like the black guy to be President the other messages are your racial oppression is no different than my gender oppression I can't be racist I'm like you I who has actually said that that sounds rather silly and denying the personal experience of individuals who experience by it well Chester Pierce kind of thought he might have been experiencing some bias when he said that his white students who offered him advice thought of him as nothing but a [ __ ] and of course there is no third party intervention example with this I guess the only thing you can really do is sit there quietly and believe them to actually be secretly racist I think this theme is the one that I hate the most the myth of meritocracy statements which assert that racial gender does not play a role in life successes for example in issues like faculty demographics okay a couple of issues that I have with just the description of that theme for a start it's not that it doesn't play a role in life successes it's that it shouldn't do and the only way to make sure it doesn't is to not judge people by their innate qualities but just them by their actions and their performance and you say for example in issues like faculty demographics will [ __ ] me all these hipster racists are being pumped out by universities I would fully expect race to be an issue in faculty demographics it seems that universities are staffed almost exclusively by [ __ ] racists microaggression examples I believe the most qualified person should get the job is a [ __ ] microaggression [ __ ] you just [ __ ] you seriously that's so much [ __ ] but not only that it means that if you think that that's a microaggression then what you're saying is that women and people of color are fundamentally inferior to white people if you don't think that's the case because if you think that then you are saying that they are never going to be the most qualified person in comparison to a white guy because the white guy is just [ __ ] better [ __ ] unbelievable the next one is of course he'll get tenure even though he hasn't published much he's black well I think that's my I mean yeah okay that's not very nice things say maybe you could consider it a microaggression but let's be honest with ourselves you guys are obsessed with success in issues like faculty demographics it's hard to believe that you wouldn't consider it when it comes to deciding who's going to get tenure men and women have equal opportunities for achievement is a microaggression just like the most qualified person getting the job that just says that women are inferior to men if you think that that's a microaggression gender plays no part in who we hire yeah I can see who's thinking that's a problem again why wouldn't that be a microaggression if you thought women were inferior and therefore you wouldn't take their gender into account america is the land of opportunity well not anymore everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough you would think but hey the next one is affirmative action is racist because ya know it that's right judging people on their race and gender is not racist and sexist and the message from all of this the message is wonderful the message people of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race what do you [ __ ] think affirmative action is you dip shades that's literally what it is the playing field is even so if women cannot make it the problem is with them there's no point saying women cannot make it there are plenty of women who are professors but the majority of students are now women the issue is with individuals people of color a lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder this is like reading the thoughts of an idiot or a madman know having quotas means you think that people of color are lazy and/or incompetent that's what you think you think they can't do the required work to achieve the required positions it's ridiculous absolutely [ __ ] ridiculous you are saying that a meritocratic system is racist and you probably think it's sexist as well because you think that these people are inferior we have a few third party intervention examples so of course he'll get tenure though he hasn't published much he's black the influence of example is so you believe that X will get tenured just because of his race let's open this up see what others think well popular consensus of the bigots are idiots really isn't that important what's important is that you've said directly by saying oh the myth is that in the example of issues like faculty demographics race matters so if you are saying race matters then why wouldn't other people turn around so well yeah obviously you mean you've got [ __ ] affirmative action of course it's going to be an issue you're making it an issue but this is critical theory it's designed to obfuscate is designed to derail your point of inquiry the next one is in a committee meeting gender plays no part in who we hire the intervention example is how might we examine our implicit bias to ensure the gender plays no part in this and have a fair process what do we need to be aware of well we need to be aware of our own bias towards one gender or another but again ultimately it's just a method to bog down conversation if you are simply not going to take gender into account when considering the objective merits of someone you could always just have someone take the names off of your TVs before you receive them to make a decision and the last one is of course she'll get tenure even though she hasn't published much she's Native American same again the intervention example is how does what you just said honor our colleague what's a completely facile question if anyone falls for that I'll be deeply disappointed in you the next theme is pathologizing cultural values communication styles the notion that values and communication styles of the dominant / white culture are ideal / normal I suppose we're meant to overlook the idiocy of them complaining that the most dominant widespread culture is the norm for this then microaggressions are to an Asian Latino and Native American why are you so quiet we want to know what you think be more verbal speak up more I love it but as if just saying this as a microaggression doesn't automatically inherently assume that they are all quiet just it's like these people can only think in stereotypes just thanks for asking a black person why do you have to be so loud animated just calm down what the [ __ ] are you talking about all black people are loud why are you always angry anything racist brought up in the class and discussion maybe because they're sick of being judged upon their [ __ ] race by people who should know better dismissing an individual who brings up race culture in a work school setting no you're not allowed to avoid talking about this you must have this conversation and that's how uncomfortable or unproductive it is and the third party intervention example is when you ask a black person's you have to be so loud animated it appears you're uncomfortable when blank said that I'm thinking there are many styles to express ourselves how can we honor all styles of expression can we talk about that well again the answer would be no we can't talk about that and because he was very loud but again as you can see this is just another method of bogging down conversation changing the subject another one is to a woman of color I would have never guessed you a scientist the third party intervention example is I'm wondering what message this is sending her do you think you would have said this to a white male again don't bother answering it with any of these just be like why you interrupting me why are you getting involved this and nothing to do with you silence yourself but if you do feel the need to answer say yes most white males are not scientists most people are not scientists the next theme is second-class citizen occurs when a targeted group member receives differential treatment from the Power Group and again it's all about power for example being given preferential treatment as a consumer over a person of color this is a bizarre theme because those things aren't mutually exclusive microaggression examples include faculty of color mistaken for a service worker are they wearing janitors overalls are they not wanting sit by someone because of his hair color that's just outright racism female doctor mistaken for a nurse again and they dressed like a nurse being ignored at a store counter as attention is given to the white customer what if they got there first saying you people an advisor assigns a black post doctoral student to ask or sing of asking scientists and the same race even though there are other non black scientists in this person's specific area of research what are you saying that they specifically should have assigned a non black scientist in that person's area of research even though there might well be a black scientist in there as well unbelievable an advisor sends an email to another work colleague describing another individual as a good black scientist well yeah why would you need say black raising your voice or speaking slowly when addressing a blind student speaking slowly when addressing a blind student why would you why would you do that why would you raise your voice in class an instructor and tends to call on male students more frequently in the female ones well the women enjoy being singled out I rather get the feeling that women would say why are you picking on us this is of course a classic example of male privilege and the message is amazing the mistaken for a service worker is people of color are servants to white they couldn't possibly occupy status positions and women occupying nurturing positions whites are more valued customers than people of color or you don't belong you are a lesser being a person of a disability is defined as lesser in all aspects of physical and mental functioning the contributions of female students are less worthy than the contributions of male students are you [ __ ] kidding me what kind of [ __ ] psychos at the University of California and Los Angeles ascribe these motivations to people I can only assume it's what's going on in their own heads and this is a contagious projection we've got a few of the third-party interventions if a female colleague is being frequently interrupted during a meeting respond to address in the group blank brings up a good point I didn't get a chance to hear all of it can blank repeat it is this really a gendered issue or is it something that polite people do to people who are shy to help them get their voice heard saying you people the third party intervention example is I was so upset by that remark that I down and I couldn't hear anything else well try not to be so [ __ ] triggered next time and another one is a woman who has talked over she responds I would like to participate but I need you to let me finish my thought yes okay I'm making a racist sexist or homophobic joke I didn't think this was funny I would like you to stop well I'm not surprised you didn't think it was funny I can't imagine any of you people have ever found anything funny I said you people Ono triggered I can't believe how many of these there are sexist heterosexist language terms that exclude or degrade women and LGBT persons microaggression examples include use of the pronoun he to refer to all people okay who does that being constantly reminded by a co-worker that we are only women what does your coworker a feminist being forced to choose male or female when completing basic forms all no but it's just such an aggression two options for relationship status married or single sorry a heterosexual man who often hangs out with his female friends more than his male friends is labeled as gay well maybe he shouldn't be such a perv the message of course is that male experience is universal females experience is invisible if you can if you're a feminist that's what you hear LGBT categories are not recognized LGBT partnerships are invisible I just don't represent very many people in society men who do not fit male stereotypes are inferior well they're inferior is men and the third party intervention examples saying that's so gay is when I hear that remark I'm offended too because I feel that it marginalizes an entire group of people that I work with to which the only sensible answer is I have absolutely no respect for people who get offended on behalf of others and finally traditional gender roles prejudicing and stereotyping occurs when expectations of traditional roles or stereotypes are conveyed wow I can hardly believe the balls on the person who wrote this who's gone through and done nothing but stereotyped people of color and then is going to complain about gender roles as berry types just un-fuckin'-believable microaggression examples include when a female student asks a male professor for extra help from an engineering assignment because you know she's bad at maths yes what do you need to work on this for anyway is he not the person who gave her the assignment you're a girl you don't have to be good at maths really to deal professors in universities say that today a person asks a woman her age and upon hearing she's 31 looks quickly as her ring finger seems seems a bit specific an advisor asked a female student if she's planning on having children while in postdoctoral training that might actually be a legitimate question shows surprise when a feminine woman turns out to be a lesbian oh yeah labeling assertive female committee chair / Dean as a [ __ ] while describing a male counterpart as a forceful leader yeah I'm sure that all of these are totally legit the messages are of course the women are less capable in maths and science when it should be married during childbearing ages because that's their primary purpose [ __ ] talk about assuming the worst I say and women are out of line when they are aggressive look this really strikes me as being very similar to the black guy being aggressive and loud and being asked to be quiet and to calm down it's bad when anyone does it it's not about him being black it's not about this person being a woman it's about the fact that they are being aggressive and the last wonderful third party intervention example to the adviser I wanted to go back to a question you asked blankie their batter plans for a family I'm wondering what made you ask that question and what message it might have sent to her well I needed to know if she was likely to take time off but again this is exactly typical all of this is completely classic critical fairy none of these questions are designed to do anything productive none of the examples on these Toshi's were using sound reasoning neither were the rebuttals based on facts or evidence or logic and every single answer was designed to teach the students to be disingenuous none of those questions were designed to further an honest dialogue with a person just speaking to they were entirely designed to prevent criticism or commentary on the thing you're initially talking about this is what they're teaching at the University of California in Los Angeles from the office of the university president it's self-evident that when you have authority figures at a university teaching easily influence students how to be deceptive you're going to foster a culture like this you're going to teach them that this is right you

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From what I've seen, the one thing that defines all SJWs is always to assume the worst.

Always go out of your way to interpret anything as being out of malice, regardless if the person making the statement was not trying to hurt anyone, or could possibly know that what they stated was hurtful, or that what they stated could in any way be interpreted as offensive by any sane person.

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