microaggression

microaggression

An action that is deemed to be a subtle or indirect expression of bigoted or discriminatory views or attitudes. You may think your little digs against women are funny, but to your female co-workers, they're sexist microaggressions. Today's speaker is addressing microaggressions and racism.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • through the back door
  • glint
  • glint in (one's) eye(s)
  • above (someone's) head
  • above/over somebody's head
  • Derry
  • have a derry on (one)
  • have a derry on someone
  • speak in circles
  • go out of one's way
References in periodicals archive
These optimistic embracers err in their confidence that the microaggression program, trigger warnings, and the idea of speech as violence will actually achieve what they're intended to.
Regardless of your profession, we have all been there--having a conversation with a White colleague about the daily microaggressions or blatant racism that we endure as people of color in the workplace.
After other such supposed acts of "microaggression," three militant "students of color" brought in a score of other students of color who were not in the class, a reporter and a photographer from the campus newspaper, and entered Rust's class.
Coping with racial microaggressions: The moderating effects of coping strategies on microaggression distress (Doctoral dissertation).
Free-speech rights are paramount, yet the rise of "microaggressions" or overt hate speech cannot be tolerated.
But when you run the microaggression redline and attach it to the email and are about to hit "send," think about the effect you're about to have on opposing counsel.
To recognize racism's concrete impact on people of color's health, we have to stop treating people of color like they're overreacting to bias that's displayed through microaggressions.
So if someone closes the elevator door before I get to it, knowing that I'm coming to the elevator, like I said, I know that that's a microaggression. Even though she didn't say "I don't want you in the elevator with me."
Even better news: Because said analogy was posited squarely opposite of tradition and religiosity, there will be nary a murmur or complaint of 'microaggression,' triggering, 'harmful verbal conduct,' bullying, harassment, hate speech, discrimination, 'toxic masculinity,' etc., ad nauseam.
I first heard the term "microaggression" while eating dinner with a group of Asian-American students at Williams College back in 2012.
Next, confounding between the variable "microaggression frequency" (and "microaggression distress") and other independent variables was assessed by adding and then removing each independent variable to a logistic regression model predicting depression.
Speech codes, trigger warnings, safe spaces, microaggression call-outs, that whole panoply of "protections"--these are not so much imposed as insisted on.
It manifests itself in the form of what the American psychiatrist Chester Pierce terms "microaggression".
As Greg relayed, "They believe I got here and took their spot." The false assumptions of some White students that their Black peers had secured admission to Unity through affirmative action rather than on their own merit proved to be an underlying microaggression towards Black students.
Microaggression Underlying Assumption/Hidden Meaning Being mistaken for another person in the same racial group People of the same race are all the Example: A counselor calls same a camper from Korea by the Your culture is not valued name of a camper from Japan and Denial of ethnic differences shrugs it off saying, "I always get them confused.