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Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

It’ll be mid conversation and they’ll say some shit like, “you probably got this job because of affirmative action.” You know, that tokenism bs. Or “you’re articulate for an African-American”.

We can also do without the hyphenated bs too, IMO. If that’s the case, then hyphenate everybody, except for the people native here. Or they’ll treat somebody’s features as a novelty or spectacle. Shit like that.

Oh, that’s micro-aggression. Kind of like passive aggressive racism. Those comments come from implicit biases and they make the person the comments are being directed to feel uncomfortable or demeaned, even if the micro-aggressor claims to not have meant anything by it. IMO, they know what they’re doing, Trump supporters especially. It happens to me ALL. THE. TIME. via mistaken ethnicity. It happened to me at work Monday. If I’m not at work, I interrupt the conversation by moving or walking away from them, because they know exactly what they’re doing. I’m not stupid.