10 Tips to Survive Today's College Campus, or: Everything You Need to Know About College Microaggressions

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Here's what's really happening.

Faculty leftists now rule the humanities departments in America's colleges and universities. They teach victimhood. Students learn that they've been victims of America's racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. So why the surprise when they begin to act like victims? And due to self-imposed or external pressure to "diversify" campuses by race and ethnicity, colleges relax customary academic standards of admission for so called "underrepresented students," specifically blacks and Hispanics. Such students would have done fine at a less competitive school, one commensurate with their grades and test scores. But when standards are watered down, students can struggle to compete, thus becoming "academically marginalized." Thus the very same students who "benefited" from the push for diversity then complain about the perceived "microaggressions" that supposedly hinder their success.

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This one-sided view of microaggressions surprised Emory University Professor of Psychology Scott O. Lilienfeld, who sees a lot of problems with the term "microaggression" as well as the associated scientific work being conducted. He outlined a number of his concerns in a blistering review just published to the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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Lilienfeld hopes his colleagues will consider his advice, as he believes their research as it's currently carried out could further tarnish psychology's stained reputation.

"One likely reason for the less than stellar impression of psychology as a science among many laypersons has been our field’s troubling propensity to advance premature assertions in the absence of adequate evidence," he writes.

As Lilienfeld notes, his "tough love" review could probably be considered a microaggression.

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