To prepare for college these days, skip BC Calculus — it won’t help you in gender studies classes. Sign up for AP Microaggressions instead.
Or at least that’s (sort of) the idea behind this Oregon high school’s microagressions project. The project aims to start the identity politics indoctrination off young, teaching students the nuances of small-time politically incorrect speech.
The projects consists of pictures of 50 students and teachers holding signs with different supposed “microagressions” written on them. The large black and white photos were placed all around the high school.
The microaggressions range from full on macro like, “Are you a dyke?” to very, very micro. Such as:
- “Why are you so quiet?”
- “Can I pet your hair?”
- “You’d be pretty if you wore makeup.”
- “But you don’t look like a Native American.”
- “But it’s just art class.”
- “You don’t look Asian.”
- “I think teens are all a little ADHD”
- “You need to look prettier for the boys.”
From the project’s website: “This Project was created as an outlet for students to express their personal experiences with these hurtful phrases to the rest of the student body in hopes of bringing awareness to the unaddressed problem.”
On the origins of the project: “The MAP project (Microaggression Project) was an idea thought of by Art Teacher Kellette Elliott while participating in the North Clackamas School District Equity Cadre in October. She thought that creating large-scale posters with students and staff holding a board with the microaggression they’ve experienced would give the victims a chance to have a voice and the viewer a chance to see that words can hurt.”
Clackamas High School did not respond to a request for comment.
