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Challenging Pro-Abortion Views Is Now A ‘Microaggression’ At This University

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Anders Hagstrom Justice Reporter
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At Longwood University, challenging someone’s pro-abortion beliefs or disliking someone based on their actions are both considered microaggressions, according to a “diversity and inclusion” presentation found by Campus Reform on the school’s website.

The presentation declares three classifications for microaggressions: insults, assaults and invalidations.

The school argues that challenging someone’s pro-abortion beliefs is assault, and you can find this gem under the third group, spoken from the perspective of a supposedly victimized student: “I have the feeling that I am not liked by some classmates because of the things I do or say in class.”

Apparently, disliking someone based on the content of their character is now a microaggression.

The presentation also lists “being told that I am too short to participate in something” as a microaggression, implying that amusement park rides across the country are, in fact, dens of malicious discrimination.

The presentation was put together by Maureen Walls-McKay, director of counseling and psychological services, who claims to have been studying microaggressions since 2007.

“Plenty of people see the issue of microaggression as political correctness run amok,” said Walls-McKay in a 2014 Longwood University news release. “And it’s certainly true that what offends one person may not offend someone else. But what’s clear is that college students see it as an issue in their lives and overwhelmingly say that it’s a problem.”

According to a poll listed at the end of the presentation, 64 percent of Longwood’s student body claimed they either didn’t experience “negative feelings” when thinking of a past microaggression, or simply hadn’t thought about it at all. A second graph shows that 82 percent of campus said microaggressions have had no effect on their experience at Longwood.

The presentation is listed under the school website’s diversity resources page alongside a list of the school’s “faith and secular” resources. While the Hindu and Muslim religions both have support organizations listed on the page, an equivalent Christian resource group is nowhere to be found.

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