Tuesday, February 02, 2016

What passes for microaggressions at Columbia: White male professors, 'stressful situations'

What passes for microaggressions at Columbia: White male professors, 'stressful situations' - The College Fix:
A conversation with a self-described queer, multiracial, mentally ill sexual-assault survivor
As she describes herself, Avegail Muñoz is facing a stacked deck. The Columbia University student is a “queer, multiracial woman of color” as well as a “low-income, first-generation student.” 
She suffers from “multiple mental illnesses” and is a “survival of sexual assault.”
And she’s mad that people are telling her to stop being so politically correct, as Muñoz wrote in an op-ed for the Columbia Daily Spectator last month.
Muñoz made several troubling allegations about how Columbia treats students like her, so I reached out to her on Facebook for more details about her experiences. 
In the end, she provided only three examples of attacks on students like herself: vandalism of a pro-transgender bulletin board, too many white professors and the stress of college.
While admitting that she is “privileged” to be attending a school of Columbia’s caliber, Muñoz wrote that the university is not the bastion of “inclusivity” that it claims to be. 
Students with “marginalized identities” are constantly told by the larger culture that they are “nitpicking” and being “too politically correct” when they complain about the microaggressions directed at them, she wrote, citing a microaggression-mocking column inThe Guardian..."
Read on and think twice about hiring an Ivy League grad.

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