{"id":5117,"date":"2021-05-05T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:50:01","slug":"a-medical-student-questioned-microaggressions-uva-branded-him-a-threat-and-banished-him-from-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5117","title":{"rendered":"A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;He was ultimately suspended for &#8220;aggressive and inappropriate interactions in multiple situations.&#8221; On December 30, UVA police ordered him to leave campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UVA&#8217;s administration engaged in behavior that can be described as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaslighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gaslighting<\/a>.&#8221; Administrators asserted that Bhattacharya had behaved aggressively when he hadn&#8217;t, and then cited his increasing confusion, frustration, and hostility toward the disciplinary process as evidence that he was aggressive. And all of this because Bhattacharya asked an entirely fair question about microaggressions, a fraught subject.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"G57L1snD9N\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/04\/07\/microaggressions-uva-student-kieran-bhattacharya-threat\/\">A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus.<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus.&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/04\/07\/microaggressions-uva-student-kieran-bhattacharya-threat\/embed\/#?secret=N9MLnZGHAE#?secret=G57L1snD9N\" data-secret=\"G57L1snD9N\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He was ultimately suspended for &#8220;aggressive and inappropriate interactions in multiple situations.&#8221; On December 30, UVA police ordered him to leave campus.<\/p>\n<p>UVA&#8217;s administration engaged in behavior that can be described as &#8220;gaslighting.&#8221; Administrators asserted that Bhattacharya had behaved aggressively when he hadn&#8217;t, and then cited his increasing confusion, frustration, and hostility toward the disciplinary process as evidence that he was aggressive. And all of this because Bhattacharya asked an entirely fair question about microaggressions, a fraught subject.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,1280],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}