Microaggressions Now Considered Harassment at the State Department?
We’ve covered the speech squelching progressive concept of microaggressions at College Insurrection countless times as an impediment to free expression on campus.
Now it seems this idea is entering parts of the government.
Peter Hasson reports at the Daily Caller:
State Dept. Warns Employees: ‘Microaggressions’ May Count As HarassmentFollowing the example set by elite liberal universities, the U.S. State Department has begun cracking down on “microaggressions” in the workplace. According to a newsletter from State Department chief diversity officer John Robinson, employees who commit “microaggressions” may risk violating harassment laws in doing so.Robinson published the letter in the November edition of State Magazine with the title “The New Face of Exclusion: Microaggressions.” The magazine is meant to “facilitate communication between management and employees” and “acquaint employees with developments that may affect operations or personnel,” according to the State Department website. In the letter, Robinson explained to employees that microaggressions “are much harder to spot than overt discrimination” and “are often brushed off as lack of tact or an act of nonmalicious ignorance.”“Microaggressions can be detrimental to employee morale and engagement,” Robinson insisted. “Left unaddressed, microaggressions can over time lead to workplace conflict and eventually affect operations.”“Severe or pervasive microaggressions based on protected Equal Employment Opportunity categories may rise to the level of harassment under certain circumstances,” Robinson warned.
Wouldn’t you think the State Department has more important concerns than turning their employees into the special snowflakes currently occupying America’s college campuses?
It’s probably safe to assume that people like Putin and the leaders of Iran and China aren’t worried about policing their language when dealing with our officials.
On a related note, the Daily Signal interviewed Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner and Kevin Gkass of the Franklin Institute about microaggressions at CPAC this weekend. Watch the discussion below:
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