2.am in the afternoon, the hallways begin to crowd with students heading towards class. As the parade of scholars march onwards, the walls litter with a collage of bright posters. A Fitness workshop poster sits next a body positivity poster. The slew of posters stream on and become a blur for the herd of students: ‘Transgender awareness day’, ‘Anxiety-issues? Talk to your counselor, ‘Racial Diversity Day’. A large poster commands the attention of all with the heavy phrase printed on it saying “Be Mindful of Others”. Ten minutes pass by and a mob of students stand confused around a door. On the door, a laminated sign sticks. The light glare censors the message, but a quick shift in perspective and it reads: “CLASS CANCELED: Due to the overwhelming complaints by anonymous students over class topic.”
A new mentality has swept through the nation’s campuses—consideration. What initially grew from the Internet blogs of social activists as journals about growing concerns over women who have …show more content…
A white woman clutching her purse as she crosses by a black person would immediately be categorized as a micro aggression. In the year of 2015, a professor unknowingly comments to her Chinese- American student, “Wow, you’re English is very good.” The student corrected her professor and the two laughed it off. Two days later, the school reprimands the professor for displaying micro-aggressive behavior towards her pupils and threatens any more complaints by the students will lead to the professor’s suspension. In another class, a gay student cracks a joke which contained the phrase “Let’s have the biggest, most flamboyant gay party”. He was soon informed by his teacher to police what he said after receiving complaints from the students peers as he was “perpetuating a stereotype on homosexual men, which is essentially a hate
A new mentality has swept through the nation’s campuses—consideration. What initially grew from the Internet blogs of social activists as journals about growing concerns over women who have …show more content…
A white woman clutching her purse as she crosses by a black person would immediately be categorized as a micro aggression. In the year of 2015, a professor unknowingly comments to her Chinese- American student, “Wow, you’re English is very good.” The student corrected her professor and the two laughed it off. Two days later, the school reprimands the professor for displaying micro-aggressive behavior towards her pupils and threatens any more complaints by the students will lead to the professor’s suspension. In another class, a gay student cracks a joke which contained the phrase “Let’s have the biggest, most flamboyant gay party”. He was soon informed by his teacher to police what he said after receiving complaints from the students peers as he was “perpetuating a stereotype on homosexual men, which is essentially a hate