Interesting perspective on the perceived "micro aggressions" of modern racism.....
http://spectator.org/articles/64704/what’s-happened-racism
Today, racism is legally invisible, but enormous in the eye of the beholder. It can be unbearable racism if a student thinks he was being looked at cross wise by a man driving by in a truck. It can be cruel racism if there are not enough blacks in faculty positions, whether they have meaningful credentials or not. It is racism at the University of Minnesota to mark 9/11 because it calls attention to the fact that the mass murderers were Arabs, persons of color, and that might make it “unsafe” for students of color on that day. I’m not kidding about this. It’s racism to allow Jews to defend Israel because Israel, the only lawful state in the Mideast, is by definition racist. In a word, we have gone from serious persecution to something like a fantasy video game of persecution. But the players of the game, far too many of our so-called higher education students, pretend to take it very seriously. They march. They go on hunger strikes. Even if their parents are multi-millionaires, they protest their wretched status as victims.
It’s nice to be young. You can be as stupid and vicious as you want and no one but a few of us old folks knows enough to call you on your BS. But we see it, your fake victimization and your need for “safe spaces” and it’s pitiful, and so are the students who are behind it, and the candy ass faculty who give in to it and pretend it’s real.
http://spectator.org/articles/64704/what’s-happened-racism
Today, racism is legally invisible, but enormous in the eye of the beholder. It can be unbearable racism if a student thinks he was being looked at cross wise by a man driving by in a truck. It can be cruel racism if there are not enough blacks in faculty positions, whether they have meaningful credentials or not. It is racism at the University of Minnesota to mark 9/11 because it calls attention to the fact that the mass murderers were Arabs, persons of color, and that might make it “unsafe” for students of color on that day. I’m not kidding about this. It’s racism to allow Jews to defend Israel because Israel, the only lawful state in the Mideast, is by definition racist. In a word, we have gone from serious persecution to something like a fantasy video game of persecution. But the players of the game, far too many of our so-called higher education students, pretend to take it very seriously. They march. They go on hunger strikes. Even if their parents are multi-millionaires, they protest their wretched status as victims.
It’s nice to be young. You can be as stupid and vicious as you want and no one but a few of us old folks knows enough to call you on your BS. But we see it, your fake victimization and your need for “safe spaces” and it’s pitiful, and so are the students who are behind it, and the candy ass faculty who give in to it and pretend it’s real.
