Poor junior, how will he ever move past this HORRIBLE event?
A restaurant staffer at the University of Minnesota was reported to the campus bias response team recently -- for the mistake for saying “hello” in Japanese to an Asian-American student.
The greeting by the female employee reportedly confused the student and the staffer then asked the student where they were from. It remained unclear if the employee was Japanese.
“Wisconsin,” the student replied, prompting the employee to laugh it off and wish the student a good day.
But the student was apparently offended by the interaction and urged the campus's bias response team to address such “microaggressions” and other acts of what the student viewed as "implicit bias."
“These type of microaggressions occur too often on campus,” wrote the student who submitted the complaint. “This implicit bias needs to be addressed.”
The bias team reportedly acted immediately and referred the incident to the restaurant's management. The student, meanwhile, was referred to the campus “Ethical Advocate Program” in the event if they “want to talk further about the experience.”