Microaggressions: When a Genuine Compliment Becomes an Offense

Jeff Valdivia
Nov 2 · 6 min read

How can society function like this?

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I recently read an article on Medium that shed some light on how people are using the word microaggression.

According to all-knowing, all-powerful Wikipedia, microaggressions are “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioural, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional…

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