Saying ‘God Bless You’ After a Sneeze Now a Microaggression at Simmons College
“this guide is by no means exhaustive”
If you were a student at Simmons, wouldn’t this make you want to say ‘God bless you’ even more after hearing this?
The College Fix reports:
Saying ‘God bless you’ after sneeze listed as microaggression on college’s anti-oppression guide
Saying “God bless you” after someone sneezes is listed as a microaggression on a lengthy “anti-oppression” guide posted online by Simmons College.
“This guide is intended to provide some general information about anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion as well as information and resources for the social justice issues key to the Simmons College community,” it states, adding “this guide is by no means exhaustive.”
Yet it includes hyperlinks to more than 100 resources, such as articles and videos, and boasts eight different subsections: anti-oppression, anti-racism, anti-transmisia, anti-ableism, anti-Islamomisia, anti-sanism, anti-queermisia and social justice zines.
The guide’s authors explain that they replaced the typical suffix “phobia,” such as Islamophobia, with the term “misia,” because the term “phobia” is offensive to people with phobias.
“So when we use terms like ‘homophobia,’ we are equating bigotry with a mental health disorder,” the guide states. “Misia (pronounced ‘miz-eeya’) comes from the Greek word for hate or hatred.”
The guide appears on the private, Boston university’s library website. It was last updated March 12, according to a time stamp on it.
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Not how I really imagined the world ending.
From here on in I will only communicate in sign language so as not to accidentally ‘trigger’ any snowflakes. Guess which sign I’ll be using the most?
What if you say “Allah bless you”? They wouldn’t want to be islamophobic, would they?
No, only Allahu Akbar is acceptable.
The snowflakes remind me of what the southern bells of 1800’s must have been like. Spoiled. Overindulged. Fainting at the drop of the hat. Needing vapors.
Generation Aunt Pittypat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imANoNt6scw
Great. Now I find out I have phobomisia. Or is it misiaphobia?
“Saying “God bless you” after someone sneezes is listed as a microaggression on a lengthy “anti-oppression” guide posted online by Simmons College.”
That’s okay. I’ve got no problem telling people to go to hell.