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Did I just hear someone use a microaggression????????

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Microaggression, it's a term. We all came to love, but what does it really mean?

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Let's do a quick simple google search to find out. What is a microaggression? Wait...

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What is a microinsult... A microaggression is the..? What is a microassault?

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What is a microinvalidation?

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Macroagression?! Microagression...

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Macroassault! Microregression...

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Macro discrimination!!

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My god, okay, all right we're gonna have to take a step back. Micro aggression is a term coined in 1970,

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But recently, Got popularized, thanks to this wonderful man. Let's see how he describes it.

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Good day everyone my name is Derald Wing-Sue

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Why does this feel like a comedy sketch? It feels like I'm watching Adult Swim.

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To share with you some of the harmful impact that micro aggressions have on...

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The music is so uplifting!

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...marginalized groups in our society.

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Is it a good thing? I can't tell.

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Well, micro aggressions are the everyday slights, indignities, put downs and

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insults that people of color, women

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LGBT populations, or those who are marginalized

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experience in their day to day interactions

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with people. In this scene, Jenny has finished a late night at the office and awaits the elevator

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I can tell it's a very late night based on the darkness.

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The door opens,

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She takes one step forward, sees a black male rider, hesitates

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And immediately clutches her purse and places her hand over her necklace.

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African-americans are prone to crime,  will break the law, are up to no good and will steal. Okay

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I have taken a couple classes in

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Microaggressions and basically here we go, Micro aggression it can be divided into three groups

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based on if it's a

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intentional microaggression or an unconscious microaggression if it's an

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unintentional

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Microaggression, then it's called a micro invalidation whatever the heck that is and then if it's intentional

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it's a micro assault and

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if it's somewhere in between you will find a

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Micropenis just kidding, a Mic.. it's a micro insult in the middle if you're not okay

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These jokes are so fucking bad my god

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now you might think that micro aggression is not that big a deal. Not, people don't use it seriously come on Felix

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so

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Recent TV went to a campus to do some research

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Occidental College in California is considering instituting a system for students to report so-called

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Microaggressions, oh wow, I believe the most qualified person should get the job

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Qualifications aren't really the only the only things you consider when hiring someone. How can you say that?

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how can you even hesitate on that, qualifications aren't really the only the only things you consider when hiring someone, what else is there if

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You're running a business you want the most qualified person for the job

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Right         Wrong

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did I just hear someone use a microaggression. I understand not wanting to hire the same type of people

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Because then you're just gonna get the same type of opinion

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But the quo... most qualified person

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Surely if you have if you get a job you should get it knowing "I was the most qualified for

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this job"

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Qualifications aren't really the only

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The only things you consider when hiring someone. I am so confused. If you're saying that the most qualified person is someone who is

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Not a minority you're not a religion you believe and then yes, I'd be a microaggression

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But that's not what they were saying . Saying "god bless you" after somebody sneezes

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oh that would be a microaggression because

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Different religions, yeah, it could be a microaggression to someone who doesn't believe in God

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I think that the harm. There is relatively minimal

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So there's still some harm though. Definitely harm. I feel my whole.. my soul is burning my soul is on fire

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I truly feel what it's like to be marginalized

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Could be a microaggression to someone who doesn't believe in God

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It could be a microaggression to someone who doesn't believe in God it reminds me the other week when?

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Mr.. Wil Wheaton who has me blocked on Twitter for being toxic?

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tweeted right after the church shooting in Texas that the murdered victims

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Would still be alive if prayers did anything that seems like the good time as any to?

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Criticize prayers after a church shooting thing is I don't believe in religion

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I am what yeah agnostic atheist

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But I don't feel the need to criticize other people if people want to say thoughts and prayers to something bad happening

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I know they have a good intention in mind even though

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I don't believe in what that good intention is I don't feel the need

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To go against that and the same thing with God bless you you know someone means something well

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Why would I personally turn I would be the one responsible for turning it into something negative

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and that's the thing with

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microaggression is that it's a game that anyone can play but no one wins I have an accent like a like a

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Swedish accent oh

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Did you just assume my accent?

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never

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Never have I been so shook. I'm shook. I'm shooooook

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Swedish accent excuse me just cuz I had this fake blonde hair. does not mean I'm Swedish, like a Swedish accent

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Not everyone in Sweden is blonde. Okay!

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what Microaggressions are the everyday slights indignities put downs for those who are marginalized?

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experienced in their day-to-day

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Interactions with people I'm not ignoring that these are

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Could be hurtful for a lot of people. I I fully understand that I'm not trying to take that away from people

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They have the right to feel whatever the way they want to feel but I found it really interesting

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In this video when they talk about free speech

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What are your thoughts on the concept of free speech do you support free speech yes, I do support free speech

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Everyone should be able to say

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What they believe in what's on their mind Unless it's a microaggression then we need to report it for hate speech I support free speech

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but

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It doesn't work like that. We condemn freedom of speech that hurt other people's feelings. Why don't you suck my micropenis?

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In Derald Wing Su's one of his books he points out that

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micro aggression produce physical health problems and shorten life

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expectency and the general consensus from research is that there's no evidence to back up that micro aggressions is actually harmful and

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What is actually defined who does it actually affect?

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Some say it could even be more harmful to use the term now

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Now that we know about micro aggression we're gonna play a little game. It's called

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Can you spot the micro aggression a McGill student was forced to apologise for?

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Racial microaggression after emailing joke obama clip this was an unintentional micro aggression, which we now learn

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It's a micro

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Invalidation good job class you learned a lot here today. It was posted with the caption

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Honestly midterms get out of here write down in the comments what the micro aggression was right now

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It was based on the fact not that

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Midterms are frustrating, then you need to get that anger out it was Blackman angry am I right micro aggression

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We also have this clip from the diversity Council of

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Australia (Inaudible) project that we're working on is actually looking at how we come on girls, let's get cracking

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girls the micro aggression here is ofcourse

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Little bit more subtle for their untrained eye, but me as an micro aggressing

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Expert I can easily tell you that this micro aggression is based on the fact that

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They all look like girls and

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Could it be the Kraken get crackin come on girls. Let's get cracking like a cracker white stir it now

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Moving on this is posted on BuzzFeed about micro

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aggression

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Examples no. You're white

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Moving on so what do you guys speak in Japan Asian?

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Micro aggression

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Just because I'm Somali doesn't mean I know any pirates. This guy is clearly just taking a piss

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I mean look at his face come on. Let me just play this micro violin

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For all these poor people with the signs and my god. it must be tough I get it

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You know actually it's it's smaller than that it's super micro. Yeah, actually. It's so tiny it's it's a nano aggression

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All right, okay, all right. Okay. Let's get serious now, and this might be completely based on my Swedish cuckery

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And I can't help it, but I always try to be somewhat sensible and around all these ideas

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I'm not dismissing the fact that this is a problem, but calling it a

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micro aggression implies that there's violence

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Involved and that somehow you have the right to strike back against it

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With violence as well

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Which is the joke that South Park hold?

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when hitting anyone in the game for making a microaggression

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When in reality it's just an insult excuse me. Did you or did you not say that this man seemed tired yes?

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He's my friend. I said Paulo. You look tired microagressions

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Persons of Hispanic backgrounds have been stereotyped as being sleepy and saying they look tired ss a micro aggression that will not Stand

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But I am tired

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And it's not a matter of definition. I think it's a you can call it micro. Whatever

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That's not really the issue

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I think the issue is how you're approaching a problem if people want to remove micro aggression from campus

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I don't really have a problem with that shouldn't that be done through educating

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instead of trying to police because it isn't

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Educating what you do at a campus any form of social study and social justice these days just seems to be

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About policing and haha we got you shame rather than educating and trying to explain

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Why something is bad now excuse me while I go and cry some micro tears?

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Thank you for leaving a like on this video every like is a macro compliment. I would really much appreciate it

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Thank you very much for subscribing. That would be a mega

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compliment really appreciate it and as always remember to

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Gladly be nice