Busters blame "micro aggressions" for silencing them

[Loki Liesmith]

Oh gods...

https://twitter.com/charlottealter/status/758882324578570240

[RonniePudding]

1. They need to get to their safe spaces ASAP!

[Loki Liesmith]

2. We are Philly

We don't do safe spaces.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. ROFL

You beat me to it.

[one_voice]

3. from the stream..

someone asked what race the person was. someone else why it mattered. Here's what someone said.

Sarah Orsborn ?@erniebufflo 3m3 minutes ago

@jasonkendziera @CharlotteAlter @joshtpm bc marginalization/microaggressions are real issues for POC, pretend issues for white folks.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. For some reason people who are not victims

Still really wanna be.

It's not a prize. It's something rational people don't want.

[David__77]

12. I can understand someone wanting to be a victim.

Adopting the being of a person who is not able invites sympathy and justifies failure. I can understand that seeming easier than assuming total responsibility for one's experience of life.

[backscatter712]

4. The DNC did have a sound strategy for dealing with protests.

Not too harsh - they didn't resort to cops with tasers.

But there are the chants from Hillary supporters, the four days of Stronger Together messaging, the occasional tactic of giving the protesters just enough rope to hang themselves (disrupting Medal of Honor winners doesn't do them any favors), and then giving the push aside pretty much kept the protesting problem under control.

If I were running the DNC, I would have done the same thing. Well played!

[MFM008]

5. still complaining...................

[R B Garr]

6. They must be blaming Bernie because he was the one who told them to

cut it out.

[geek tragedy]

9. Hoard. Those. Grievances. nt

[orwell]

10. Micro Aggressions?

Is that when Don the Con tries to hit you with his "tiny hands"?

[Gothmog]

11. Argh

[auntpurl]

15. Hope you do a full write up of your convention experiences.

I know I would love to read it!

[DemonGoddess]

13. awww speshul snowflake

having a tantrum b/c waaaaah he didn't get his way!

[David__77]

14. I looked up "microaggressions."

I saw that it is applied to different contexts including gender and race. I also imagine one might apply it to any group concept, including sexual orientation, for instance.

It seems to me that the theory of microaggressions might be used to reinforce a personal identity of "victim."

[glennward]

16. One of them got badly burned trying to burn the American flag. Saw the news story on Yahoo. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. That was unfortunate. Burning the flag is protected free speech, ...

... not something to be punished. This should not be a cause for schadenfreude. I could happen to anyone. Imagine the conflagration burning an effigy of Trump's hair, for example.

That fire caught very quickly. I suspect there was some kind of accelerant involved. Alcohol, perhaps?