Saturday, January 13, 2018

Entire class punished for 'microaggressive' comments

Entire class punished for 'microaggressive' comments:
  • Three Columbia University professors recently described how an entire class was punished after some students used “microaggressive” language in an online chat.
  • After requiring students to read two articles on microaggressions and "racial identity," the instructors separated the white students from the "People of the Global Majority" for a debriefing.
...Matthea Marquart, who teaches online classes for graduate students studying social work, noticed that some students used unspecified “racially microaggressive” language during the live chat of a recent online class..."

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