A personal affront or even violence does the old saying still holds true to discuss that im now joined by Bradley Campbell associate professor of sociology at California State University and coauthor of the rise of victimhood culture microaggression safe spaces and the new culture professor campbell its good to talk to you think you very much for your time thanks for having me now professor campbell its such an interesting topic but before we delve into it the phenomenon that you discussed in the book micro aggressions extreme sensitivity just slides safe spaces allegations of Cultural Appropriation others primarily american predicaments or is it something that you see in other parts of the world as well. We 1st started looking at cases and the United States Oberlin College at yale and other kind of elite universe. Thats where we were seeing the kinds of the new moral claims a new moral language being used its certainly used. Elsewhere weve weve seen it and britain and australia certai
A personal affront or even violence does the old saying still holds true to discuss that im now joined by Bradley Campbell associate professor of sociology at California State University and coauthor of the rise of victimhood culture microaggression safe spaces and the new culture professor campbell its good to talk to you think you very much for your time thanks for having me now professor such an interesting topic but before we delve into it defend the woman that you discussed in the book micro aggressions extreme sensitivity just slides safe spaces allegations of Cultural Appropriation others primarily american predicaments or is it something that you see in other parts of the world as well. We 1st started looking at cases and the United States Oberlin College at yale and other kind of elite universities thats where. We were seeing the kinds of. New moral claims a new moral language being used its certainly used. Elsewhere weve weve seen it in britain and australia certainly and in
Other new concepts well i can tell you that a russian era all sounds strange and russias own version a country with i would say little restraint for verbal aggression russians take out their frustration on others very easily so some of us would rather deal with micro aggressions than the macro aggressions that we encounter on an almost daily basis. From my Vantage Point things that you describe in the book they stem from human mandation rather than too much am i wrong yeah i mean it sounds strange to a lot of american ears to i think these are still pretty relatively new ideas even though theyve become more mainstream and it sounded strange to me at 1st too i had never heard of a micrograph shown before 2013 and i you know 1st heard that. Herman and i think i was approaching it as a sociologist of morality so im interested i mean 1st its not you know that i wasnt so much like thinking of it as a critic or an enthusiasm but just someone from the outside looking at these activists subcul
That you see in other parts of the world as well. We 1st started looking at cases and the United States Oberlin College. Elite universities thats where we were seeing these kinds of. New moral claims a new moral language being used its certainly. Elsewhere weve weve seen. Britain and australia certainly and in other places in europe so its something that certainly in the west has become more prominent recently a lot of the ideas go back and kind of are old but nobody had heard of them and now theyre becoming more prominent with people talking about micrograms sions even. In Mainstream Media. Safe spaces and all these these other new concepts well i can tell you that you know. Russian ear it all sounds strange and russia is obviously a country with i would say little restraint for verbal aggression russians take out their frustration on very easily so some of us would rather deal with microaggression is than the macro aggressions that we encounter on an almost daily basis. From my Vanta
Investigators who were to el salvador people whod worked on the south African Truth Commission and others academics lawyers peoples experience and we invited them to ireland and i asked them to look at the evidence to me was whistleblowers to meet with families to meet with p. S. And i was seated on many others and a troll their own conclusions to draw up their own report the International Panel report which is what they did and it was a very valuable experience to have people from outside the jurisdiction come here look at the evidence and come to their own conclusions. 10 years ago from 2004 to 2006 i had the privilege of chairing an independent International Inquiry into potential collusion by British Security forces in paramilitary killings of catholics in Northern Ireland. They certainly were not a few. There are a significant number. Of agents from within the e. U. See the u. D. R. Who were involved directly in these killings who are in collusion with them. And their activities t