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- noun Plural form of
microaggression .
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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Most of the encounters I dealt with before quarantine could be described as “microaggressions,” which the psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.”
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