What exactly is a microaggression?
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Microaggressions are more than just insults, insensitive comments, or generalized jerky behavior.
They’re something very specific: the kinds of remarks, questions, or actions that are painful because they have to do with a person’s membership in a group that’s discriminated against or subject to stereotypes. And a key part of what makes them so disconcerting is that they happen casually, frequently, and often without any harm intended, in everyday life.