Oberlin's President Says No

MomOnALaptop
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 05:04:38 +0000

@Ohiodad51, don’t agree that “virtually no one” is expressing racism and homophobia in today’s world, but I’m going to steal your line on being “micro-aggressed by the General Tsao’s chicken.” That’s darned funny. My soon-to-be-freshman is being raised in the developing world, and he considers himself progressive, but he’s rather worried that if his classmates feel micro-aggressed by their cafeteria offerings, his head will explode. Around here people don’t worry much about micro-aggressive dinners.

We talk a lot about how he can (hopefully) respond in a thoughtful and nuanced way to stuff like that, and recognize that those kids basically share his concerns but are just expressing it … um, differently. Unfortunately, he’ll probably end up responding as befits his age – in an overblown, black-and-white way – and then, who knows, maybe he’ll end up being accused of a “micro-aggression.”

And so the world turns. Hey hey, ho ho, General Tsao’s got to go …