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    Bluenose posted an update 5 years ago

    This was a part of my micro aggression training earlier this week at work. I’m a highway worker. This time of year I spend the vast majority of my time working alone driving a snow plow trying to make roads passable for emergency vehicles and to “keep the wheels of commerce turning” according to 1 of our trainers. Luckily for me while plowing during a storm last friday, in whiteout conditions, I didn’t hear any microaggressions. I certainly couldn’t see any either. It was snowing too hard, plus i was concentrating on the rest of my job. Not too many mosquitoes around here this time of year anyways. 😉
    My favorite example in the video is the use of the term “god damn”. Apparently that’s ok and not seen as a micro aggression against Christians or any other religion that believes in (a) God. This is what we pay taxes for.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450

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      R. L. S. replied 5 years ago

      I bet all those snow flakes you plow think thats mighty aggressive ,,,,,LOL,,that training is such a joke. Hang in there Bluenose.

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          Bluenose replied 5 years ago

          The other shift took their training this am. Apparently they’re laughing just as hard as the rest of us. As for the snowflakes and my aggressiveness, I never heard a thing from them. Then again my first set of hearing aids haven’t arrived yet. I declined the remote control and the Bluetooth capabilities. The audiologist promoting them couldn’t seem to understand that I consider my brain too soft as it is without any outside/remote help. As we say hear where I live, “she had a knot on her face a scout couldn’t untie!” Humor, the last bastion of free speech? Works for me! 😀

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          Bizantura replied 5 years ago

          Infantilizing adults into oblivion! The parodie would be comical if it weren’t reality.
          Indeed hang in there Bluenose.

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            Billy Bob replied 5 years ago

            This video came on after viewing the one posted…looks like the University of Texas at Denton was the chosen venue for the interviews. No room for a dialogue with these rules in place. The ladder of inference has no boundary…anything said can mean anything the communicant wants to hear or programmed to hear in these classrooms.
            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahtlxW2CIQ