Berkeley faculty will make sure he doesn’t overstay his student visa.
Via BI:
On Jan. 5 of last year, UC President Janet Napolitano sent letters to deans and department chairs at every UC campus asking them to attend seminars “to foster informed conversation about the best way to build and nurture a productive academic climate.”
If you cut out the flowery language and the obfuscation, that means “to learn new things that can no longer be said in class.”
One of the handouts distributed at that meeting was titled “Recognizing microaggressions and the message they send.”
It contained a list of taboo phrases that are so innocuous in the way they are meant that it calls into question not only the rationale of a bureaucrat that might label them as objectionable but also the mental fragility of a hypothetical student who may be offended by them.
The first example of a microaggression as listed in this handout is “You speak English very well,” which the handout claims sends the message “You are not a true American.”
As an international student who has been on the receiving end of this terrifying microaggression multiple times, I can confidently say that the people who make statements like that at UC Berkeley are genuinely impressed by my command over the English language and mean it as a compliment.
The correct response to it is not to be offended by their surprise but to remind them that just because someone is not from the United States, that doesn’t mean they will speak English like the cast of “Slumdog Millionaire.”
The handout goes on to list “When I look at you, I don’t see color” and “There is only one race, the human race” as particularly dangerous microaggressions. Viewing these as microaggressions is yet another manifestation of the left-wing’s warped view of race relations and the flawed belief it holds that it is possible to move to a post-racial society while obsessively fixating on race and ethnicity.