February 18, 2024The Southern Journal of PhilosophyOpen Access

Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation

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Conventional accounts of microaggressions better reflect lived experiences than revisionist models by requiring consciously or unconsciously biased motivation.
Theoretical model evaluation demonstrates that innocent actors facing attributional ambiguity still merit blame for failing to signal respectful intentions.
Conceptual engineering of social identity harms must retain attributional ambiguity rather than classifying all ambiguous interpersonal encounters as hostile.

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates limitations of ambiguous microaggression models in marginalized groups, highlighting the necessity of prejudiced motivation for defining harm.

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Bouke de Vries (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e78a66b6db6435876fd2fd https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12543

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Theoretical analysis demonstrates limitations of ambiguous microaggression models in marginalized groups, highlighting the necessity of prejudiced motivation for defining harm.

Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation

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Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation

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