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Snowflake/victim/hurt feeling culture attains the academic heights

Not looking someone in the eye is racist, Oxford University students told


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Oxford University students have been warned they may be being racist if they fail to look another student in the eye or talk to them directly.
Undergraduates were also told not to ask a black or ethnic minority student where they are from "originally", and that joking about someone’s accent may be racist.
The Oxford equality and diversity unit’s warnings come in a list of “micro-aggressions” sent out in its Trinity term newsletter.
The counter argument goes that if  you see someone approach or you pass by
someone who is giving off strange/aggressive/confrontational vibes
I have always instructed my children do not make eye contact.
So the nub of the argument - not sure the Oxbridge half educated Professoriat would like this argument- that it is a matter of perception; so we have to deconstruct the individuals perception of the person passing by and of who h/shr may encounter 
So what constitutes perception? a myriad of things. To pass such a vague law in such a seat of learning is evidence of the Liberal virus writ large
Oxford University students have been warned they may be being racist if they fail to look another student in the eye or talk to them directly.
Undergraduates were also told not to ask a black or ethnic minority student where they are from "originally", and that joking about someone’s accent may be racist.
The Oxford equality and diversity unit’s warnings come in a list of “micro-aggressions” sent out in its Trinity term newsletter
Oxford University students have been warned they may be being racist if they fail to look another student in the eye or talk to them directly.
Undergraduates were also told not to ask a black or ethnic minority student where they are from "originally", and that joking about someone’s accent may be racist.
Strawson begins his argument by asking how someone would typically respond to a request for a description of their current visual experience. He says that it is natural to give the following kind of answer: “I see the red light of the setting sun filtering through the black and thickly clustered branches of the elms; I see the dappled deer grazing in groups on the vivid green grass…” (1979: 97). 

There are two ideas implicit in this answer. One is that the description talks about objects and properties which are, on the face of it, things distinct from this particular experience. The other is that the description is “rich”, describing the nature of the experience in terms of concepts like deer and elms and the setting sun. The description of the experience is not merely in terms of simple shapes and colours; but in terms of the things we encounter in the “lived world” in all their complexity. 

As Heidegger puts it, we never … originally and really perceive a throng of sensations, e.g., tones and noises, in the appearance of things…; rather, we hear the storm whistling in the chimney, we hear the three-engine aeroplane, we hear the Mercedes in immediate distinction from the Volkswagen. Much closer to us than any sensations are the things themselves. We hear the door slam in the house, and never hear acoustic sensations or mere sounds. (Heidegger (1977:)

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