I haven’t paid enough attention to the student protests and demands at various schools.
Though I’ve paid some attention, such as the events at Yale and Brandeis and Mizzou.
But I missed the Wesleyan University Is This Why? student protest website.
(Note – I added the yellow highlighting to the image below. That highlighting has no hidden meaning.)
The Demands include:
5. TRACKING OF FACULTY & STAFF BIAS & MICROAGGRESSIONSBy November 30th, 2015: Report on how student input will be integrated into the formation of an anonymous student reporting system for cases of bias, including microaggressions, perpetrated by faculty and staff.By Spring, 2016: Revision of end of semester professor evaluations to include a section dedicated for reporting classroom biases, including microaggressions, perpetrated by instructors.
David Sessions, a Ph.D. student in History at Boston College, correctly assesses the situation as a demand for totalitarianism:
You would be mistaken if you thought these demands are from an isolated group on campus. Read the list of signatories, which includes dozens of campus groups.
Since I don’t work at Wesleyan, I would not be subjected to such a system.
But even if I were, I’d still use the term “(seriously)” in the title to this post. Which is a major microaggression, and intended to be so.
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