Meツ , DIY✄ , and Stuff ღ: Stop the Microaggressions

Rumplestiltskin, a fairytale character in a TV series called Once Upon A Time, can twist and turn anyone's words to work in his favor and leave the other party tasting regret, the aftertaste of a bad deal. It's hard to imagine America's future leaders creating a play on words to work against others just like Rumplestiltskin, but in "Sorry, but it's your fault if you're offended all the time" Matt Walsh brings light to the issue. In the blogpost Walsh says that Americans are taking insult by twisting non offensive phrases into ones with malicious intent and he claims that we are taught to continue this way of thinking through out college by discussing these microaggressions as if they were true aggressions. Like Walsh's opinion, I agree that one should stop making these microaggressions because one isn't in the path of true harm, the microagressions aren't adding to the process of our society's development, and doing this simply just makes our society look weak.

Although, some comments truly are meant in an offensive way, people aren't in the grasp of danger just by hearing these comments. For example, if one African American child was offered fried chicken by a person of another ethnicity they could easily say they were only approached with the deal because the color of their skin. Just like the African American child an African child has also faced racial profiling except the African's offender assumed the color of their skin meant the world would be a better place without them and proceeded to stone this African child and place him in the need for extensive care after receiving his "punishment" for being colored. Just like the African American child, many other Americans face situations when they may be belittled, but if no physical harm is being done the situation is not a major crisis to complain about. Therefore, the complaint just becomes a microaggression and attacking that certain issue doesn't achieve much.

In order to develop society we must improve, but microgressions counter that progression due to awareness not being raised toward the right subjects. Many Americans are getting worked up by issues like that, but once these issues are solved they serve to do nothing more than to make certain people feel better about themselves. Earlier this year the microaggression about the Redskins' team name actually became viral. Some people thought that the term "redskins" was outdated and offensive. In reality the name wasn't meant to degrade native Americans, but this issue is came up as if the team just loved to belittle Native Americans which was far from reality. So basically the only result to fixing that would just be a smile on a small group of peoples' faces, but would it stop the Native Americans from getting physically abused or maybe even stop Americans from holding them captive? The result of fixing that issue would definitely not do any of that considering we never had that issue to begin with. To people looking in from other countries it seems like Americans are desperate to have important matters happening to gain,what Matt Walsh called, the "hero" position.

Because Americans are so desperate to have relevancy, they are creating microaggressions, and in result they are just making the American soceity look weak as a whole. In the video by Andrew Klavan, provided as support in Walsh's blog, Klavan read out loud real responses, from people around the world who've had to deal with real aggressions, to microaggressions. In those letters each response had a tone as if they were being patient while explaining something to a child. Each writer also implied that they had it way worse, but still managed to keep the tone. By this repetitive tone, it's apparent that the people from other countries think American "issues" are petty compared to theirs. If this is the case Americans should just stop making the microaggressions all together because people from other countries would gladly trade their problems in for american ones even though Americans claim to face the same problems. Therefor it makes Americans look weak because Americans can't even handle something as simple as a non life-threatening insult while the lives of others are being threatened for the "same" issue. Redemption is never too late, so Americans should hop on the one way flight straight for it.

In order to this, the termination of microaggressions is a necessitity. By doing this, when real danger comes around Americans will have preserved their energy for the right moment instead of wasting it on petty microagressions, Americans will finally be on the path to a developing society once again, and Americans can finally wave the flag of United States flag proudly with strength without being looked down upon by other countries.