{"id":32718,"date":"2015-09-13T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32718"},"modified":"2015-09-12T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T14:37:26","slug":"teaching-microaggressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/teaching-microaggressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching microaggressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Ace of Spades HQ<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc:1080\/?post=358947\" target=\"_blank\">Ace<\/a> sums up the deepest problem with the movement to find microaggressions everywhere and in everything:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is that just as cognitive therapy teaches people to <em>not<\/em> make a big deal out of trivialities (like teaching people who have a phobia about elevators to learn to not be afraid of elevators), microagression brain-programming is a <em>malicious<\/em> form of cognitive therapy teaching people the exact opposite &mdash; to fear this, hate that, fly off the handle about this other thing, and generally carry on like a lunatic about things that sane people do not even think about.<\/p>\n<p>And just as the good form of cognitive therapy can make a hysteric or neurotic a well-functioning individual, so can the insidious form of it turn a well-functioning individual into a hysteric or neurotic.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s 100% right and I&#8217;m glad someone had the guts to say so.<\/p>\n<p>Colleges and progressives generally are teaching young people <em>how to be mentally ill<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Ace of Spades HQ, Ace sums up the deepest problem with the movement to find microaggressions everywhere and in everything: The idea is that just as cognitive therapy teaches people to not make a big deal out of trivialities (like teaching people who have a phobia about elevators to learn to not be afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,53,13],"tags":[906,238,1020,139,764],"class_list":["post-32718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-politics","category-usa","tag-mentalhealth","tag-offensensitivity","tag-progressives","tag-psychology","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8vI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32719,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions\/32719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}