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.
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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Yes! Neither
@drethelin's initial point nor@tipsycaek's counter-argument depend on prevalence. -
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The wearing / weathering / cumulative exposure models count (micro-)aggressions. It shouldn't matter who they come from and why.
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woah I didn't know infinitesimagression calculus was an actual thing.
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My actual hunch is that there’s hormesis, but I don’t think that study’s getting by any IRB.
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