"...Illinois State University is now offering a “bystander training program on microaggressions” — ...The purpose of the program is, according to an announcement released last year, is for people to “be aware of microaggressions and be prepared to intervene” with phrases like “‘What do you mean by that?’ or ‘What you are saying or doing is offensive.’” The school is currently preparing for its rollout later this academic year, according to an article in The College Fix.
Look: It’s one thing to intervene on behalf of yourself if someone has said something that offends you.
It’s completely another thing to feel like you need to intervene on behalf of someone else, especially when you have no idea whether or not that person is actually bothered.
First of all, it’s patronizing.
For example: Language campaigns at various schools — the University of California–Davis, Macalester College, and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, to name a few — have identified “you guys” as being a microaggression on the grounds that it generalizes all people as men which is offensive to women.
...But training a group of college kids to think they will be heroes for intervening in private conversations because they’re just, like, so much more socially aware than the rest of us sounds like a great way to create a bunch of socially obnoxious monsters.
Second of all, it’s annoying..."
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