Microagression

This link was forwarded to me as a 'latest thing by the looney left' from a friend. I'm calling bogus on it.



As far as I can tell the (Right Wing) author of the piece is claiming that the 'next trend' in Political Correctness is to assume that ordinary (Even admirable.) actions are inherently racist as the (Sorry long quote) below shows:

Quote:

To look at how subtly microaggression may manifest, let’s take an example. A middle-aged, white male in a city with a white majority offers his seat to a kindly-looking black lady of an older age on a crowded subway train; nobody looks twice, perhaps the lady even smiles as she accepts the offer. But did you know that the male individual may well have committed microaggression? Well anyway, he likely wouldn’t know if he had, by definition. In offering his seat to the kindly-looking older black woman (or even, God forbid, thinking of her in those stereotypical terms), the white man has made hurtful assumptions about her needing the seat more than him including her identity as a woman, older individual and member of a minority.

http://thefederalist.com/2013/12/16/...croaggression/



Has anyone else encountered the concept or is this just another piece of scaremongering hype?



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