Microaggressions are unintentional or unconscious comments or actions that are subtly offensive to a minority or even other nondominant group and often reinforce stereotypes.
What is microaggression?
Microaggression is a term used to describe everyday verbal, behavioural, or environmental slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, as well as negative attitudes toward stigmatised or culturally marginalised groups. These slights can be intentional or unintentional. Chester M. Pierce, a psychiatrist at Harvard University, created the phrase in 1970 to describe the slurs and rejections that he frequently saw non-black Americans inflict on African Americans. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the term was being used to refer to the casual denigration of any socially marginalised group, including LGBT individuals, those who are poor, and those who are disabled. Microaggressions are described as "brief, everyday exchanges which send deriding messages to such individuals cos of their group membership" by psychologist Derald Wing Sue. The commenters may have good intentions overall and be oblivious to the effects of what they say.
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