“… The Yale lecturer whose email about Halloween costumes exposed long-simmering racial tensions on this Ivy League campus has decided to stop teaching at the university.” …
This is truly unfortunate. The closing of necessary discourse between opposing parties is critical if true progress is to be made. I really hope this isn’t indicative of a growing climate at Yale.
@tonymom, I think it’s unfortunate also, but I don’t question that it might be best for her personally. It isn’t just the climate at Yale that I wonder about; there’s plenty of it elsewhere.
This might be politically incorrect, but with the current situation of police abuses, mass murders, political candidates and elected officials that spew hate and falsehoods, etc., I’d be more interested in dealing with macro aggression than micro aggressions
@lxnayBob
I think you’re correct that macro aggressions may be safer…
At least a student may have a better chance speaking to a fellow student and getting to a point of understanding…
Current political rhetoric is far too depressing.
But I hold out hope that the younger generation can forge a new understanding; one that embraces an exchange of ideas. And yes this is often difficult and messy,
After all I know many of the more important lessons I learned in college were not necessarily in the lecture room.
Microaggressions are gateways to macroaggressions, so dealing with smaller aggressions will, in the long run, hopefully begin to remedy some of the larger macroaggressions.