Tag: microaggressions
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Let’s keep talking, shall we?
During last week’s “Introspection,” I briefly referred to microaggressions, any discussion of which leads to trigger warnings, a separate but intricately related issue. A kind reader reminded me of a September 2015 article from The Atlantic, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” that made the round in the academic circles and elsewhere when it came […]
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Introspection time…how do you think?
Pardon me, please, while I wax philosophical. I’m so terribly out of sorts these days. The media-fueled and politician-stoked fear of any “Other” who doesn’t look like the predominant U.S. version of a “real” American weighs heavily on my psyche. And when paranoid, xenophobic posts show up in my Facebook timeline or Twitter feed from […]
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