When I first heard the term micro aggressions sometime back now, I felt it was not helpful to introduce yet another term to describe what is basically rudeness. I tend to feel rudeness is rudeness. Putdowns are putdowns. And a racist comment is a racist comment. Now I fully understand some nastiness can be small and quietly delivered and others can be huge and aggressively delivered. I think we need to be careful we don't downplay rudeness by calling them micro aggressions when they're not particularly micro and they're not actually aggressive - they're just rude.
When I first heard the term micro aggressions sometime back now, I felt it was not helpful to introduce yet another term to describe what is basically rudeness. I tend to feel rudeness is rudeness. Putdowns are putdowns. And a racist comment is a racist comment. Now I fully understand some nastiness can be small and quietly delivered and others can be huge and aggressively delivered. I think we need to be careful we don't downplay rudeness by calling them micro aggressions when they're not particularly micro and they're not actually aggressive - they're just rude.