Are You Racist? You May Just Be According To This New List

[Qlip]

If you look up the source material, it's a lot more reasonable than how it's being represented. Those things aren't 'rules' they're potential signs of general attitudes.

http://www.uwsp.edu/acadaff/NewFacultyResources/NFSRacialMicroaggressions_Table.pdf

Here's an excerpt from the original PDF:

THEME
Ascription of Intelligence
Assigning intelligence to a person of
color on the basis of their race.

MICROAGRESSION
“You are a credit to your race.”
“You are so articulate.”
Asking an Asian person to help with a
Math or Science problem.

MESSAGE
People of color are generally not as
intelligent as Whites.
It is unusual for someone of your
race to be intelligent.
All Asians are intelligent

It seems like a nice useful little repository for those who want to raise their own awareness of some of the possible roots of seemingly innocuous language.

I raised a family and spent a lot of time in the Midwest, my visits to the rural areas were filled with these sorts of interactions--You are not really Mexican, because you are well spoken, intelligent and are in the middle class. The people I talked to were kind, well intentioned, and just ignorant, pretty much all around superior to the typical internet flame-spewing denizen.

 

[sprinkles]

If you look up the source material, it's a lot more reasonable than how it's being represented. Those things aren't 'rules' they're potential signs of general attitudes.

http://www.uwsp.edu/acadaff/NewFacultyResources/NFSRacialMicroaggressions_Table.pdf

Here's an excerpt from the original PDF:



It seems like a nice useful little repository for those who want to raise their own awareness of some of the possible roots of seemingly innocuous language.

I raised a family and spent a lot of time in the Midwest, my visits to the rural areas were filled with these sorts of interactions--You are not really Mexican, because you are well spoken, intelligent and are in the middle class. The people I talked to were kind, well intentioned, and just ignorant, pretty much all around superior to the typical internet flame-spewing denizen.

Yeah I was going to say those are more like red flags in context with something else.

Also I'd like to point out the deal with people saying "There's only one race" is like saying you refuse to acknowledge actual differences because you're too inept to handle them with tact.

Not everyone wants you to throw their entire race away. Being seen as raceless can be just as insulting. Most people just want others to stop assuming things about them.

 

[sprinkles]

Also saying "the most qualified person will get the job" is like a daycare assuring you "we won't beat your children". It should go without saying and the fact that it doesn't is a bit suspect.

 

[Xann]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

What about a nanoagression?

 

[Bush]

I'm a white person. I laughed, or at least smirked, at most of the stereotypes. "You know about NASCAR stuff, right?"

If this is supposed to get me to feel the way the targets of microaggression feel.. well..

.. ... if what I felt is what they feel, I'd want people to microagress(!?) me all the time.


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