“Microaggressions” are not limited to just actions or words about race. Even setting up a safety zone for students to walk in without the fear of being hit by a car can be deemed a “microaggression” in the liberal enclaves of higher education.
Students at Arizona State University are petitioning school officials to change the name of the pedestrian walkways, currently called “Walk-Only Zones,” because they are a “microaggression” against the disabled, Campus Reform reported.
The taxpayer-funded university created these Walk-Only Zones to “enhance pedestrian safety” and “ease vehicle congestion,” according to the university’s website. Students are paid to patrol the area.
Alec Melger, a student at ASU, started a Change.org petition signed by more than 60 people, that claimed the zone “marginalizes disabled bodies who cannot walk.” Melger wants to see the name changed to something more “inclusive.”
Other ASU students who signed the petition agreed.
“I was on crutches for 5 weeks and felt uncomfortable when seeing this sign,” James Qian, of Tempe, Ariz., wrote as his reasoning for signing the petition.
Victoria Jackson, another signatory, called it a “necessary” change.
“Oppressive language is a microagression [sic] that needs to be addressed and is often forgotten about,” she wrote. “Word choice is one of the easiest things to change and often one of the most powerful.”
Campus Reform also obtained a poster that the group was handing out on campus to get people to sign its petition.
In addition to the new language, the group also takes issue with “creepy people policing our bodies on the way to class,” according to the poster.
