My university is holding a conference on microaggressions. And not with the goal of mocking them.
It’s the same university that didn’t have funds to pay for my trip to an actual scholarly conference at Oxford. The microaggressions conference is being organized by the same administrator who denied me that funding and is currently sending out anti-union missives, arguing that unions are divisive.
I want everyone to note that it isn’t students who are coming up with the initiative to give intellectual validity to the concept of microaggressions. It’s an anti-union administrator who is trying to distract our attention from organizing a collective political effort (a union of workers) towards interpersonal squabbles and grievances. See how masterfully it’s done? Now everybody’s attention will veer towards their personal identity (and attendant grievances) and away from the feeling of solidarity as workers.
Smart, eh?
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