Almost all of the things I've seen happen over the last six years have me in a complete state of shock and awe. It started with a short clip I saw on the internet called 'Modern Educayshun.' I watched it but didn't get it, and at the same time, I found it hilarious! I thought it was some weird caricature of whatever the hell was going on in college lately. I didn't realize it was a photorealistic carbon copy of what's happening in college nowadays.
Shortly thereafter, Jordan Peterson got confronted about rejecting prescribed language at the University of Toronto. Then it was Yale students freaking out at professor Nicholas Christakis about Halloween costumes that "culturally appropriate." The Bret Weinstein incident followed suit over at Evergreen State College in Washington. I believe this was when the whole microaggressions thing became this huge phenomenon. And some of them are legitimately slightful, while others aim to turn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's message on its head.
So if you acknowledge someone's skin color, that's racist. But if you're colorblind, then you're marginalizing someone's experience. The goings-on in the past several years has been the most radical shitshow I've seen before in my entire life. Oh, and "anti-racism" is just racism against straight white males. But advocates of this type of racism don't think it's racism because they identify with one of the myriads of "oppressed and marginalized" splinter groups who fancy themselves as victims.
They think they do not have "institutional power" and believe that prejudice + institutional power = racism. And since they don't have this "institutional power," they think they are only doing bigotry or prejudice but not racism. Essentially they've had their minds washed with a horse shit enema straight in the earhole, a bunch of pseudo-intellectual tripe served to them with a silver spoon on an ornate platter manifesting itself as a college degree.
Yeah I sometimes call it mind rot. I often refer to it as a mental or mind virus too.
Just like most illnesses it has a lot of unpleasant but different symptoms depending upon where it occurs.
That's why I bother arguing with them. It is rare I wake someone up. Yet when I do they usually become quite amazing. It is much like people surviving an illness then having an immunity.
Education is the only place we might be able to confer that immunity without them having to live through it. Yet right now the Education System is one of the clusters of illness that is spreading it everywhere else.