Political Correctness: An Amerikas Universitäten tobt ein Kulturkampf

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

“Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless. For example, by some campus guidelines, it is a microaggression to ask an Asian American or Latino American “Where were you born?,” because this implies that he or she is not a real American. Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response. For example, some students have called for warnings that Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might “trigger” a recurrence of past trauma.”

Deutsche Artikel:

http://www.zeit.de/2016/03/diskriminierung-universitaeten-usa-kulturelle-aneignung-minderheiten-studenten-protest

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/risiken-der-redefreiheit-man-wird-ja-wohl-noch-sagen-duerfen-1.2634767


Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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