A lot of social advice amounts to “round problems down”. Live and let live, turn the other cheek, don’t take things personally, etc. If you avoid escalation, you avoid destructive feedback loops. The concept of microaggressions as endorsed by the modern left does the opposite.
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if you like, here's survey data 11% of blacks report "regularly" being treated badly on account of race (many more, 60%, "occasionally") interpretation from an inchoate agent model: ill-treatment is more exceptional / concentrated than a general rulehttp://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/5-personal-experiences-with-discrimination/ …
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this is an absurd thing to go to surveys for. read what people say about their experiences.
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which people tho? shall I take ta-nehisi coates as representative, or john mcwhorter? etc if you want something to get information for this particular question about a distribution of experiences, you're probably not going to beat a survey
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whoever says they experienced it! or whoever you're talking to! what??
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"do bad things happen ever" vs "how prevalent are bad things"
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i feel like we're having completely different conversations
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/shrug people still regularly try to compliment by saying im "different from othet girls". these issues persist and problems arent gonna be fixed by pretending they already are
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Is your complaint that it’s a cliche or that you are like other girls or that other girls are actually good or what
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“Don’t speak in cliches and be aware that way more of your first instinctual response to a person is a cliche than you might think” is not the way micro aggressions discourse I’ve seen works
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you seek out and, because of our social circle, are mostly exposed to the (not actually dominant) toxic and comical examples of these discussions.
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