“Microaggressions are not trivial and insignificant but have a continuing and oftentimes harmful macro impact. Those in the majority group, those with power and privilege, and those who do not experience microaggressions are privileged to enjoy the luxury of availing for proof. Meanwhile, people of color, LGBTQ brothers and sisters, and other socially devalued groups continue to be harmed and oppressed. To ask them to wait for individual, institutional, and societal change is to ask them to continue to suffer in silence and to maintain the status quo of power and privilege.” RacismPrejudiceDiscriminationOppressionInequalityMicroaggressionMicroaggressionsPower And PrivilegeRacial Microaggression Author:Derald Wing Sue
“In my clinical experience, always trusting your feelings or jumping to conclusions that you know what others are thinking, without any supporting evidence, are seen as examples of cognitive distortions.” TherapyMind ReadingCognitive DistortionsMicroaggressions Book:Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice Source: Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice
“Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.” RacismBigotryMicroaggressionsPost Racial AmericaPost RacismPost Racial Society Author:Justin Simien