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There are an increasing number of terms and movements that seem to be highly destructive on survival, coexistence, and rational thought.    I've often wondered if they are the byproducts of people graduating as psychologists, sociologists, or perhaps just some control freaks with no degree.     Let's create terms designed to pretend reality doesn't exist and tell people it is okay for them to be in a constant state of denial and that their fantasy world is real.   In fact it gets worse than that.   We each can have our own fantasy world and you better not try to bring reality into it.

Here are some terms I am increasingly coming to despise.   I see them as doing a great deal of harm to the minds of those that embrace them.
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<li>Safe Spaces</li>
<li>Virtue Signalling</li>
<li>Microaggressions</li>
</ul>

While I'm at it I'm also not a fan of the over use of the Myer's Briggs Personality matrix.   It may be useful for generalization purposes, but people don't fit into a box, and generalizations are often WRONG.    Furthermore, as someone who can move around at will in that personality matrix it is not particularly valid except for the purpose of generalization (*aka stereotyping*).

These days if you provide enough of those things any communication can quickly devolve down into a spiral of fighting/dueling over virtue signalling, microaggressions, and then attempting to deflect by labeling someone as some personality type within the Myer's Briggs Personality test.    If that fails they can simply bail and say "this no longer feels like a safe space".

If the goal of creating these words was to provide people an environment where they are never wrong even when reality strongly indicates otherwise,  mission success.    If that was not the goal then I don't see the value of the mess in communication these things have provided.    They are like mental viruses that are rotting the minds away of many people.    We need some anti-virus.

We need people to embrace reality and learn how to deal with things they find uncomfortable rather than pretending they don't exist.

Are we little children that pull the sheets over our head and say "*I am safe now, because the monster can't see me.*"

The rest of this article I'm going to touch upon what these plagues actually are... find a few more of them and we can write a new chapter of a bible about modern day seven plagues, nine plagues, etc.    Or just start a cult with our additions. *chuckle*

Here is a <a href="http://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/events/documents/Microaggressions_Examples_Arial_2014_11_12.pdf">link to a PDF</a> on recognizing Microaggressions that a friend who was disgusted by it sent me...  it actually inspired this post.  I'll provide an image of some of the ones I find particularly ridiculous.
![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWrwyjP78q1VpV4sKgVKMAzoE9YACcAnQeyzNrSV9g1Un/image.png)
Don't ask them where they are from...   It is just better to not know.   Have fun thinking of a way to find that information out without using a microaggression.

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Don't pay someone a compliment.   It is now fully justified for them to treat their assumptions as to why you asked a question or made a statement than it is for you to say anything.

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmf4Kjqx7qgkNFDX4MAp4Mp6v6pPQdT1rtydDyUddcGT7a/image.png)

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmb7UbG9pzu6biTthykqG8yddsd1tMngdwRdJgEnTN2tEe/image.png)

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That's all I'm going to show of that.  I can only read idiocy for so long before my mind begins to scream in a frantic need to escape.   "*It burns, it burns, make it stop.*"   

This sheet is another example of what I've begun to refer to as ***Backwards World***.   In this case it appears that making assumptions is a positive thing.    People who say things that might lead to assumptions are committing microaggressions.   So rather than teaching people that assumptions and jumping to conclusions that were not specifically stated is a bad thing they now turn it around on the person who stated or asked something.    The assumption is treated as reality.

Looking at that you'll likely come to the conclusion I did that with that type of idiotic education and lack of reasoning you really shouldn't say "*anything at all*" because, any words that flow from your mouth likely could be interpreted as a microaggression.    Rather than giving these people a reality check and teaching them the flaw in assuming things they have instead decided that assumptions are okay, and saying anything that someone might assume something bad about is not okay.

It makes me very angry.    Though I am not seeking a safe space.

Safe spaces are fictional.   Reality exists.    No matter where you go you cannot prevent the possibility of reality intruding.   Furthermore, your safe space can end up being my shackle.   A safe space is letting other people enslave the rest of people due to their own fears.   Grow up!  Face reality, learn to live in it, rather than trying to remake it into fantasy land.

And now the lovely **virtue signalling**.   The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling">wikipedia page</a> has information on this.

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I really don't want to delve deeply into virtue signalling at this time.   Writing about microaggressions and safe spaces has already left sooty black resin on my mind today.

<h1>Longtime personal hypothesis</h1>
I've had a pet hypothesis (*one of many*) for years.   It actually goes back to my college years.   I met quite a few people of different disciplines and would interact with them on a regular basis as I was at the hub of all things computer on my campus back then, and all disciplines seemed to converge there in one way or another.     I met some interesting people studying psychology.   Some of them were pretty normal.   Some of the others seemed to be some of the most disturbed people I had ever met.   In fact, I met more disturbed people in that field than I did normal.   I only really mingled with that group on this one campus, so I have no way of knowing if this is pretty normal or not.

It kind of goes along with my "*Why Wait?*" revelation that I referred to in other writings.   I'd hear a lot of "*When I graduate I'm going to X*"     So in a field like psychology and sociology when you graduate if you are like many humans and want to leave a mark, create something, create a legacy, etc.    What might you do?   As with most things there are easy paths and there are hard paths.   Human nature seems to indicate people more often choose the easy path.    A lot of these PROBLEMATICAL rules, studies, and new ways to analyze people often seem to me to be the byproduct of someone trying to leave their mark.   Often the thing they created was not needed.    Sometimes this not needed thing actually proves to be harmful.    They needed to leave their mark. 

Convincing people that fantasy land is okay, and reality is bad certainly seems to be leaving a mark.   It also makes conversation with such people pointless.   They are "triggered" (*another term I dislike*) by your virtue signalling, microaggressive invasions of their safe spaces.

***End Rant*** - for today.
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