Questions?

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

My wife will hiss at me if I don’t caress her hair before sleepytime. I may have married a cat.

[jackfrostncola@lemmy.world]

but then I read the married guy’s comment…

Kinda amusing that you didnt take this seriously until you had a white male confirm it for you.

Note: am white male, I just saw the irony (?) in the situation.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

And they said Ted talks were starting to suck… ***** Would watch again

[benjaben@lemmy.world]

I haven’t heard that one, but they did like a crossover a year or two back with the Hood Politics podcast I believe that was a multi episode deep dive into the topic. Given how few details I apparently remember, probably worth a re-listen for me too, but you oughta give it a whirl!

[meliaesc@lemmy.world]

I’ve found microaggressions mostly due to ignorance instead of malice. I’d classify these and your definition as such.

[ataridump@lemmy.world]

Cut me some slack Jack!

Chump don wan da help chump don get the help.

Jive ass dudes ain’t got no brains anyhow.

[ricecake@sh.itjust.works]

What’s the point you’re trying to actually make?

the last statement in the meme is kinda meh and sticks out among the others.

If it sticks out you’re missing the point of the chain of statements.
It’s not that the other statements are or are not statistically justified, it’s that making comments to people that are clearly being made because of their race and perceptions about their race is something that tends to happen regularly to black people and other minorities, and not so much to others.

[izzyscissor@lemmy.world]

I asked you to think about why a stat might be popular.

You cited an article without personal comment.

I quoted your article back to you.

You refused to acknowledge the citation as a factor in your statistic, but also don’t have another argument without that statistic.

F

[sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml]

I’m a Latino and I grew out my hair during the pandemic with the goal of donating it. My hair comes out curly when it is long. One day, when we were back to seeing people face to face, a black woman asked if she could touch my hair. I was a little surprised that she asked, lol.

[surprize@lemm.ee]

Which country is that? Switzerland?

[tiefkuehlkost@feddit.org]

I looked it up and youre definition is right, my bad.

It just sounds off to me to name something unintentionaly with the word aggression as the definition of aggression contains an intent to cause harm.

[scutiger@lemmy.world]

That’s why they’re called microaggressions. They’re unintentional actions or words that are not meant to be hurtful, but just giving it a little extra thought, it’s easy to see how they can be.

Meanwhile, actual aggressions are purposeful and obviously meant to cause harm.

[squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com]

Bigotry of low expectations!

[cuerdo@lemmy.world]

the term is cool though

[rockerface@lemm.ee]

The prejudices stack together, unfortunately

[rockerface@lemm.ee]

Does scratching behind ears work?

[mbm@lemmings.world]

It’s more subtle racism than “I hate blacks” though, so people don’t always recognise it

[iheartcheese@lemmy.world]

This is basically the plot of Crash

[meowmix2525@lemm.ee]

You might actually look into how long that was taught and pervaded into medical attitudes, how little women’s anatomy has been studied compared to men’s, and assumptions made about care for black people and women compared to white people and men, respectively, before making comments like this.

I don’t have the time to look it up for you, but I will recommend the book Bonk by Mary Roach for the anatomy stuff. You will be very surprised.

[lowleekun@ani.social]

No no no. They are not racist, just curious (answer of my colleague when pressed on his questions).