From the course: Dealing with Microaggression as an Employee
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Seeing microaggressions as "death by a thousand cuts"
From the course: Dealing with Microaggression as an Employee
Seeing microaggressions as "death by a thousand cuts"
- You may have heard the term death by a thousand cuts. It implies that there are lots of small, bad things happening, none of which are fatal in and of themselves, but can add up to a slow and painful demise. The tricky thing about microaggressions is that individually they're perceived as small, but collectively they cause large harm over time. It's the daily commonplace interactions that can't always be readily identified as racism by people who have little experience of it, but there is a cost and a damage of language that invalidates and undercuts. The cost of this behavior, whether in the workplace or in society at large is infinite. The emotional tax of being marginalized can take its toll. Even more challenging, marginalized groups who experience microaggressions are placed in a tough position to speak out about a seemingly small incident that can be viewed as insignificant that many people worry about being perceived as…
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