Can someone please explain microaggressions to me?

[Charles Barkley]

I was reading this article and I don't fully understand it

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/11/06/microaggressed-on-campus-theres-app-for-that.html

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[Red Spy]

It's what happens when you're a pusillanimous individual that gets offended by everything

[Nonnel]

It's what happens when you're a pusillanimous individual that gets offended by everything

essentially

[Steve5451²]

"Microaggression is a term coined by psychiatrist and Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals he regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflict on African Americans."

I doubt this is how it's being used in this article though. Probably just a sassy white girl laying down some passive-agressive remarks to some soft millennials.

[Pastrey Crust]

I am slightly mad at you.

[Daswiruch]

anything said to a non-white person by a white person could be a microaggression because of lax defining and overuse
"hello, ma'am" is an example of a microaggression because you're assuming someone's gender
asking everyone "can someone please explain microaggressions to me?" is a microaggression because you're assuming someone wants to be asked a question

[Nix the Glaceon]

it's when you aggress in a micro way

[Red Spy]

it's when you aggress in a micro way

Imagine a midget in a fistfight

[Foxscotch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression_theory

alright now that we've got that over with, I also wanna bring attention to the fact that UCSC apparently has literally the cutest mascot ever

[Daswiruch]

it's when you aggress in a micro way

Imagine a midget in a fistfight

ok that's loving hilarious

[IsaacKronenFaust]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression_theory

alright now that we've got that over with, I also wanna bring attention to the fact that UCSC apparently has literally the cutest mascot ever

Shouldn't the glasses be for his eye stalks?

[Foxscotch]

Shouldn't the glasses be for his eye stalks?

is this a microaggression? how dare you

[Pastrey Crust]

ok that's loving hilarious

https://youtu.be/Jl4ButVeOUQ?t=1m10s

[Charles Barkley]

Goddammit why does everything get people triggered now? A couple of days ago I overheard my grandma was removed by someone on Facebook by "triggering" her. When will this loving end?

[Ragequit]

when your microwave gets pissed off