Microaggressions explained with movie clips

[Syne]

Mr. Oh So Obtuse can't manage to understand anything but the most literal. But since I already said assault, which covers "being shoved, spit upon, grabbed and restrained, manhandled, slapped, threatened with a weapon, etc.", maybe it's just his poor memory rather than literal-mindedness.

If it's unintentional, or you can't tell whether it is, it's just as likely to be imagined.

[Magical Realist]

Nope. You said it takes something being objectively damaging to make you a victim:

"Yeah, not exactly true, but true enough that it takes something being objectively damaging to make you a victim. Like objective damage to your person, loved ones, property, or reputation."

Clearly you are wrong.

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If it's unintentional, or you can't tell whether it is, it's just as likely to be imagined.

Nope. People commit unintentional acts all the time that are morally wrong. Even crimes. So a microaggression being unintentional doesn't mitigate the responsibility of the person making it not to make it. Everyone is responsible for the things they say. In the old days this was called social ettiquette, or not being an asshole.

[Syne]

Learn how to string together and comprehend more than one post on the same subject, genius.

No, without a victim mentality, no one can make a victim of you short of physical assault. Being a victim to words is a choice. A choice where you are granting that those words are more significant than your own evaluation of yourself.

An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault

"being shoved, spit upon, grabbed and restrained, manhandled, slapped, threatened with a weapon, etc." - CHECK
And every one of those is an objective act that everyone can perceive and agree happened.

Now if you want to pretend that my previous posts don't exist, that's your own mental evasion at work. Whatever you gotta tell yourself to justify your abiding hatred.

The morally wrong and crimes are still objective acts that everyone can perceive and agree happened. There may be dispute over culpability for unintended harm, but there is no doubt it occurred. Whereas microaggressions are so named, again, because the perceived slights are not obvious to everyone...and may just as readily be imagined. Being an asshole is intentional. You really seem confused on the difference between intentional and unintentional. No wonder you're having so much trouble here.

[Magical Realist]

And every one of those is an objective act that everyone can perceive and agree happened.

But they don't do objective damage. So your claim that to be a victim there has to be objective damage is clearly false. I'll just keep repeating this until it sinks in.

[Syne]

Again, try to comprehend more than one post on the same subject at a time.

[Leigha]

Thing is though, it's not edifying to one's self honestly, to go around displaying ''microaggressions'' and expecting people to tolerate them. I totally agree that we shouldn't have to ''walk on eggshells,'' but at what point, do we draw a line relating to pot shots and insults that have the ability to create hostile environments? It's just as easy to offer a kind word to someone in order to build him/her up, as it is to insult them - so if someone is always reaching for an edgy, borderline insulting comment in the workplace, what is he/she trying to prove, really? It's a choice how we treat others, at the end of the day. ''Develop a thick skin,'' sounds like a phrase used by bullies to get a pass for their sometimes, rude remarks.

[Magical Realist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFB4mJ0DI

[Syne]

Again, microaggressions are so named because people don't know they do them, if they don't just exist in the victim's perceptions. So it's not a case of intentionally going around displaying them. Thick skin is what everyone used to have, naturally. It's this coddling, snow flake culture that has made people incapable of dealing with the least bit of push back.