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nah000
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no/w/here
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Sep 17, 2016 - 10:29pm PT
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while microagressions [aka subtle sexism/racism/etc] does exist and should be talked about and taken seriously, it appears [this thread] t'is the season to poke fun at those who have gone off the other deep end and see perceived hurts even in the most innocuous...
because sometimes a microagression truly is just a dad-joke gone awry:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
and if you find this compelling [or enjoy causing your ears to bleed] feel free to search for the whole tennish minute vid... hahaha... although i'd recommend you just watch this one instead... hugh mungus is quite the character:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Sep 17, 2016 - 10:33pm PT
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We seem to live in a time of pervasive macroagressions. The internet presents us with a full spectrum of hostile behavior, with some of the vilest imaginable bullying bookending a spectrum in which anything like civility is long-forgotten, replaced by both the trolls and their leering enablers. The left, to its eternal shame, has become as intolerant as the right. Our political life is suffused with both dog-whistle and explicit calls to violence, racism, and xenophobia, while terrorists rejoice in the performance of mass murders and grotesque mutilations.
With this as the background context, the trend towards an exquisite sensitivity to subtle discomforts seems almost poignant, as if we can only cope with the monstrosity of much of our everyday reality by ever finer recalibrations of our lost common decency, narrowing our focus to---yes---a microscopic perspective in the hope of screening out the panorama that confronts us. Perhaps this is a little like the tunnel vision we have all experienced on a stressful lead, a narrowing of the field of view, but here in a way more functional. I get the mockery of all this, but ultimately see these developments as deeply saddening, a grasping at fragile reeds on the shore by souls swept away in a torrent.
Those of us with children---if we allow ourselves to think about it at all---have to weep for the world we have bequeathed them. And then we dry our tears and go climbing, rejoicing in another world where beauty sometimes still reigns, a context in which the classical heroic virtues are still relevant and have at least a chance to flourish, and malevolence, when we encounter it in the form of nature's wiles, is not powered by human evil.
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Sep 18, 2016 - 06:19am PT
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My sister has a crush on you and your intelligence, MB1.
Well......in truth, it's a micro-crush.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Sep 18, 2016 - 07:14am PT
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I am confused with this micro thing. For example, microphone. Is that a miniature phone?
and microdot… uhh, okay I won't go there. Must be my micromind.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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Sep 18, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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from the New York Times article link posted by EdwardT:
in reference to declines in enrollment at U. Missouri after racially motivated incidents there last year:
said Archie Ervin, the vice president for institute diversity at Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. “If you have a sustained drop in enrollment and disproportionately lose full-paying students, such as out-of-state, the state legislature can’t make up the gap.”
so all the attention being paid to this on campuses is just a reflection of forces in the marketplace?
at least some universities still retain a micro-backbone, as Reeotch would say.
University of Chicago dean of students John Ellison warned that the university did not “support so-called trigger warnings, we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual safe spaces where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Sep 18, 2016 - 01:33pm PT
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Good on U of C!
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Sep 18, 2016 - 01:36pm PT
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Sadly, they'll lose the lawsuit.....
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
The real McCoy from somewhere over the rainbow...
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Sep 18, 2016 - 02:58pm PT
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Very well put RGold.
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Yury
Mountain climber
T.O.
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Sep 18, 2016 - 04:01pm PT
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Is this photo a microagression?
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Sep 18, 2016 - 04:48pm PT
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Wow, Cosmic, just think of the kids your sister and I could produce.
Is she really into me, or are you just jerking me around? Be honest. These things matter. My biological clock is ticking down, ya know.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Sep 18, 2016 - 05:02pm PT
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If she's into me, I will make her bray like a donkey.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 18, 2016 - 05:22pm PT
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Primo microbus with double cab for those who need to ride in back.
The caption reads (and I ain't shittin you).
"1963 double cab….it arrived at my doorstep fully restored when I got the job with Primo Beer in 2009. I drive it and I get paid, how nuts is that. A seagull Sh#t on me at college graduation, that’s the only explanation I have."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 18, 2016 - 06:48pm PT
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I had the same thought, just south of the pump house.
Macro_aggro? Purports to be Windansea crowd late 1950's. Could be a Primo Warrior on the far left. No finger, go figger.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 18, 2016 - 07:01pm PT
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What's wrong with the guy on the left in that picture. Is he some kind of sensitive new-age guy who's afraid that giving someone the finger is too microagressive.
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Sep 18, 2016 - 07:04pm PT
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Edit:
Urine is not too bad, Jim.
It's the sh!t you have to worry about.
What doesn't kill you makes you stranger, eh?
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Sep 18, 2016 - 08:29pm PT
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This needs some Micro
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Sep 18, 2016 - 09:04pm PT
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Ah, the feelings swelling within me right now. Cosmic, words fail me.
On lots of levels.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Sep 18, 2016 - 11:21pm PT
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Rest In Rebellion, Lemmy.
That was a good interview. Motörhead to me was always punk. But maybe that's cause I've lived most of my life with my eyes closed!!
Brennan, you are always good for an intermission.. Better see your ass at facelift, for all the shitbags you've slung over here you need to come and actually clean some up.
Jus be'in a punk;)
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