Microaggressions What they are and how to stop them
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how y’all doing
i’m ryan watson davis and today i’m
going to be talking to you guys about
microaggressions so raise your hand if
you even know what a microaggression is
if you don’t you’re ignorant but no
offense
let me explain if you
don’t know any information that was
never given to you
you’re ignorant that’s okay you can be
ignorant now when you get information
and now you reject it
now you stupid
so today i’m going to absolve
your ignorance of microaggressions
microaggressions are a one-sided
behavior or
statement that may seem harmless but
really discriminates
against a marginalized group for example
um somebody may say hey
you’re pretty for a black girl not to
boost myself but i’m
i think i’m pretty regardless like
i don’t have to be a certain race in
order to be pretty
i can just be pretty or if someone says
oh you’re doing that that’s so gay
that discriminates against the lgbt
lgbtqia community
that may or may that definitely may hurt
their feelings
so in order to stop those you just need
to
criticize you need to evaluate and you
need to acknowledge
criticize what the microaggression
was really intended to mean was it
intended to hurt your feelings
was it set out of ignorance
you never know not until you ask that’s
why you also need to evaluate
your microaggression might hurt someone
else so if someone does
say that hey this hurt my feelings
evaluate that your feelings are hurt
that you did might you did hurt
someone’s feelings
so also acknowledge acknowledge that
i hurt someone’s feelings if someone
tells you that they
got their feelings hurt by something
like of what you said
their feelings are valid don’t get
defensive
don’t get angry just acknowledge that
you hurt someone’s feelings and then
say i’m sorry let me try that again
i’m just curious about abc and d
and then i’ll tell you about def
simple so
another thing that is very important
about microaggressions microaggressions
would be the bystander
effect does anyone know the bystander
effect if you’re familiar
shoot your hand up right quick okay
well just in case you’re ignorant
the bystander effect is when you observe
things going on
but you don’t actively participate
for example if someone said you might be
a little cuter if you lost a little
weight
now if you hear it
and you just standing there and you just
looking at him
you’re a bystander now sorry to say
you are a bystander but a strong
link in the chain of diversity is allies
if you hear something that is out of
pocket or that might hurt someone else’s
feelings
speak up say some i know it’s scary
i really do know but imagine how scared
the person is who is receiving
the microaggression imagine how they’re
feeling
what are they supposed to say what are
they supposed to do
if it was set out of ignorance do they
know that it was offensive
if it was said with ill intention
how will you know ask
stand up for each other we
all we got so we really just need to
work together
get rid of these microaggressions if you
do have a true question
just ask rather than trying to give a
backhanded compliment
or accidentally hurting someone else’s
feelings
but if you do three things just
criticize
evaluate and acknowledge
and we’ll all be unified
no matter how diverse we are thank you
for coming to my ted talk
thank you