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Jim Goad: Land of 1000 Microagressions

May 18, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad writes:

But it was Columbia psychology professor Derald Wing Sue—an Asian male in case such things are important to you—who really took the concept of “microaggressions” to the hoop in 2007 when he broke it down further into four micro-categories.

This boy named Sue distinguished between “microassaults,” “microinsults,” “microinvalidations,” and, most amusingly, “microrape.”

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