The New York Times recently published an article that provides a glimpse into the microaggression movement currently infecting college campuses. The article profiles Sheree Marlowe, the chief diversity officer at Clark University, where she teaches incoming freshmen how to identify and avoid microaggressions. Here are a few tips Marlowe provided to the students attending one of her recent “training” sessions:

• Don’t ask an Asian student you don’t know for help on your math homework.
• Don’t say “you guys.” It could be interpreted as leaving out women.
• Don’t randomly ask a black student if he plays basketball.
• Don’t’ show surprise when a “feminine” woman says she is a lesbian.
• Don’t say “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough.” (This is a microinvalidation.)

Marlowe knows her stuff. Just ask her. Or does she? Consider this exchange she had with a student:

But some students appeared slightly confused.