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Apparently protection from micro-aggressions, triggering, and hostile language doesn’t extend to Jews at Canada’s universities.
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You remember microaggressions?
At the University of Toronto the explanation is contained in a document quoting Dr. Derald Wing Sue, “Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, etc., whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target people based solely upon their marginalized group membership.”
At McGill University the description of a training session at McGill’s Teacher Support Union tells us, “Microaggressions happen so quickly, whether they be racial, gender-based, about sexual orientation, ableism, or another form of cultural oppression. The subsequent impacts of microaggressions disrupt the learning and safety of our classrooms.”
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Workshops, training, language and general lecturing of the student body and the public by universities have served to make some people tiptoe around controversial social subjects, lest those who self-appoint themselves to police the rest of us point the bony finger of blame in accusations of hate.
Both U of T and McGill are currently the sites of supposedly Pro-Palestinian rallies.
Supposedly, because as Joe Warmington has reported in the Sun, “Anti-Jewish segregation is happening on the campus of the University of Toronto.”
Jews are not allowed to enter the encampment. “At least non-approved Jews. These unofficial border guards do ask for papers at the border crossing there.
Or, at least, proof of religion, affiliation or ideology.”
Video exists of those same “border guards” refusing a professor entry. He insists it is because he is Jewish.
Those border guards have no official status from any proper authority. They are self-appointed, masked and “protecting” an illegal encampment.
They also appear anti-Semitic.
That’s macro-aggression.
It should set off all sorts of triggers at the U of T, but leadership there has always been accused of weakness on Jew hatred.
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs wrote, “The University of Toronto is one of the most highly regarded academic institutions in Canada. A coalition of anti-Israel groups initially used the university campus as a launching pad for what has become an annual series of events that take place in dozens of cities around the world.”
They are referencing the annual Anti-Israeli Apartheid Week, seen by many as permission to show as anti-Semitic under cover of a supposed concern for Palestinians.
Canadian Press reports on McGill. “Both McGill and Quebec Premier François Legault have described the Montreal encampment as illegal, and asked police to help dismantle the tents — though as of Sunday the force had not complied with the request. Opponents of the camp, including counter-protesters who showed up Thursday, have said it makes some Jewish students feel unsafe.”
One would think Jewish students feeling unsafe would unleash the PC Police with claims of micro-aggressions, triggering, and a need for workshops and healing for those students.
But no.
Protestors on campus and in the streets in Canada claim they are not anti-Jewish, but against what the Israeli government is doing in reaction to the Hamas attack of last October 7th.
How much more believable would those claims be if at least some demanding and sign waving showed condemnation of the terrorist group that attacked innocent Jews?
How about demands for the return of hostages taken by Hamas?
Or does all the anguish over micro and macro aggressions not apply to Jews?
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