Ithaca College SGA passes bill for online reporting of microaggressions

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

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http://theithacan.org/news/ic-sga-passes-bill-to-create-system-to-report-microaggressions/

Making a safer and more inclusive community by making your neighbor scared to do or say the wrong thing... They are very serious about stamping out any unintentional slights or uncomfortable feelings. 

[Zioneer]

...The heck is a "microaggression"?

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

...The heck is a "microaggression"?

Something that feels racist to the aggrieved person, but isn't overtly racist enough to be a violation of any kind of hate speech rules.

[SteveRogers]

Who cares? It's student government.

It is baffling though that the author chose to write that entire article without ever once defining what a "microaggression" is.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Who cares? It's student government.

It is baffling though that the author chose to write that entire article without ever once defining what a "microaggression" is.

The term is vague on purpose. 

What a god awful idea this is. 

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Is macroaggression still OK?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Would I be allowed to report when a liberal friend of mine said "Christian nut jobs", or is this system reserved only for offenses by right-wingers?

I think it only falls under the definition if they conflated Christian with nut job as opposed to Christian simply being an auxiliary adjective tied to nut job.

[njwes]

Would I be allowed to report when a liberal friend of mine said "Christian nut jobs", or is this system reserved only for offenses by right-wingers?

You know the answer

For those in this thread who've never had to hear about the term "microaggression" before, I really, really envy you.

[The Free North]

Is macroaggression still OK?

Can Federal Reserve policy be included under said macroagression?

[TNF]

Well we obviously wouldn't want people saying meeeeeen things to each other on the Internet

[TNF]

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ahahaha, oh wow

great job liberals, 10/10

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

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ahahaha, oh wow

great job liberals, 10/10

This really isn't a "liberal" thing, TNF.

[ingemann]

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ahahaha, oh wow

great job liberals, 10/10

This really isn't a "liberal" thing, TNF.

If this isn't a "liberal" thing, I would appreciate if you told us what "kind" of thing it was instead, so what we get something we can discuss.

[njwes]

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ahahaha, oh wow

great job liberals, 10/10

This really isn't a "liberal" thing, TNF.

It's certainly a leftist/progressive thing.

[TNF]

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ahahaha, oh wow

great job liberals, 10/10

This really isn't a "liberal" thing, TNF.

In the traditional sense, it's certainly not. Liberals used to be defenders of free speech and opponents of things like monitoring online discussion and cataloging people who make the wrong comment so that they can better 'analyze' that information without of course, divulging to the person in question that they're being monitored. That liberalism is dead though. The new liberalism is all about the state or its equivalents in the private sector being the ever present monitor of all, cataloging information at all times that could be used at any given moment if someone says the wrong words somewhere or does the wrong thing. That it does so for the purported purpose of anti-racism (without ever addressing the structural issues of capitalism that make racism a reality) makes it all the more dangerous, as it can entice well-meaning members of the liberal-left into supporting it.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

"Disregard that Frank, it's a bunch of liberal bullshit"

[© tweed]

if I had to label it: it's "degenerated New Left identity politics"

[SteveRogers]

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ahahaha, oh wow

great job liberals, 10/10

This really isn't a "liberal" thing, TNF.

If this isn't a "liberal" thing, I would appreciate if you told us what "kind" of thing it was instead, so what we get something we can discuss.

It's a student government thing. Its a bunch of college kids who haven't been out in the real world yet. Do not take them seriously or their egos will only grow larger.

[TNF]

Given that the Ivy League has a way of producing the next generation of the American ruling class, I'd say there's plenty of reason to expect that these kinds of things will start coming out of Congress in a few decades, which is why its important to lampoon the stupidity of these things in an effort to stop them before we end up with full time sensitivity police sometime in the 2030s.

[Simfan34]

This makes me want to say "Heil!" I mean xonline reporting of people by race. Is this even legal?

[Simfan34]

Given that the Ivy League has a way of producing the next generation of the American ruling class, I'd say there's plenty of reason to expect that these kinds of things will start coming out of Congress in a few decades, which is why its important to lampoon the stupidity of these things in an effort to stop them before we end up with full time sensitivity police sometime in the 2030s.

As Bacon King once said "the tumbler generation is here". I strangely enough share your fears.

[Beet]

Dumb, dumb, dumb. Anyway, the "tumblr" generation is a small minority even within its own generation (they've always been around really, like redpill - but tech has given them a platform to be more visible). Polls from 2014 show 18-24 year olds actually shifting sharply Republican.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Dumb, dumb, dumb. Anyway, the "tumblr" generation is a small minority even within its own generation (they've always been around really, like redpill - but tech has given them a platform to be more visible). Polls from 2014 show 18-24 year olds actually shifting sharply Republican.

Yeah, all the fears about them eventually taking over are overstated. However, the problem is they're loud and aggressive enough to seem like a majority and cow institutions to their will, regardless of their actual small numbers.

[© tweed]

Given that the Ivy League has a way of producing the next generation of the American ruling class

Ithaca College is not Cornell.  Cornell is Ivy League, Ithaca College is not.

[TNF]

Given that the Ivy League has a way of producing the next generation of the American ruling class

Ithaca College is not Cornell.  Cornell is Ivy League, Ithaca College is not.

Ah, my apologies. Thank you for correcting me there. Must have gotten the two mixed up.