Prof Who Helped Popularize Microaggressions Now Says Not Everything is a Microaggression
“have to be seen in context”
Good luck getting that toothpaste back into the tube. Perhaps this concept shouldn’t have been introduced to the academic environment in the first place.
The College Fix reports:
‘Microaggressions’ professor: ‘Not everything is a microaggression’
Derald Sue, a professor at Columbia University and one of the principal popularizers of the concept of “microaggressions,” recently stressed that “not everything is a microaggression,” and that such exchanges “have to be seen in context.” Yet the professor emphasized that the theory of microaggressions continues to be valuable and relevant today.
A “microaggression” is defined as “a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority).” The term has become popular on college campuses in recent years, with students frequently accusing each other of committing microaggressive acts, usually associated with race or sex.
In a phone interview, Sue told The College Fix that the concept did not originate with him but with a psychiatrist named Chester Pierce in the 1970s. “It was never picked up. It was almost like [Pierce] was a victim of a microaggression. They didn’t think his work was valuable and wasn’t considered something that was worthy of social scientific studies,” he said.
Sue himself would pick up the work several decades later. “One reason I think people didn’t pick it up was because there wasn’t a taxonomy or classification system that directly explained the types of microaggressions, what they looked like, their harmful impact, and what went on in the heads of both perpetrators and targets,” he said.
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As a well known Viennese once said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Wasn’t that Bill Clinton’s comment?
I guess people in the ’70s had more sense.
Oh wait, I didn’t see it at first, but there is some delicious irony in here!
Exhibit A: Derald Sue…recently stressed that “not everything is a microaggression,”
Exhibit B: A “microaggression” is defined as “a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority).”
Exhibit C: (From Sue)…a psychiatrist named Chester Pierce in the 1970s. “It was never picked up. It was almost like [Pierce] was a victim of a microaggression…One reason I think people didn’t pick it up was because there wasn’t a taxonomy or classification system that directly explained the types of microaggressions, what they looked like, their harmful impact, and what went on in the heads of both perpetrators and targets,”
So, in summary, one of the “originators” claims microaggression is being overused then goes on to claim the actual originator was microaggressed. Then the topic turns and this same idiot goes on to explain that the reason for the original denial was not, in fact, a microaggression.
Never saw any microaggressions on “That 70s Show.” It was all MACRO, and hilarious.