I'm not sure this lack of awareness is super widespread, and where it is its been pilloried as backward since at least the 90s see King of the Hill, the boys meeting Kahn for the first time or similar comedy about white people trying way too hard to be nice to black people
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Replying to @eigenrobot @drethelin
idk man try asking some black people how widespread that issue still is
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot @drethelin
this is an absurd thing to go to surveys for. read what people say about their experiences.
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @drethelin
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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Replying to @eigenrobot @drethelin
whoever says they experienced it! or whoever you're talking to! what??
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @drethelin
"do bad things happen ever" vs "how prevalent are bad things"
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Replying to @eigenrobot @drethelin
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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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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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The core debate should be if this model is appropriate: do microaggressions aggregate or not?
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