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No place is safe enough in this era of trigger warnings and microaggressions.
An art installation on racial “microaggressions” put up by the Asian American Students Association at Brandeis University ironically became a microaggression in and of itself due to the nature of its content, The Daily Caller reported.
The Rabb Steps Microaggressions installation consisted of a large series of small printed signs featuring sayings that the students claim they hear “frequently” from other students on campus.
These “microaggressions” signs were taped to the ground and the stair railings of the Rabb building steps included lines like, “Why do you guys all have the same last name? Are you related?” and “I’m color blind. I don’t see race.”
But it turned out that these signs were just too triggering for some students.
The Daily Caller reported that the group’s president, Esther Lee, sent a 1,278-word apology email “to the Asian students on campus who were triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions in our installation.”
“We want to reinforce that this installation is a commentary on how these insults build up together to create a campus environment that does not welcome Asian students,” the email stated.
“As Asian students, we had no intention of mocking or harming our own community and ourselves,” Lee wrote. “We acknowledge the disconnect between intention and effect.”
