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In reply to the discussion: What the heck is a microaggression, anyway? [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)"Get out of my way, queerbait."
Thump.
There were incidents of severe "macroaggresion" too that left me crumpled up on the ground bleeding and bullies kicking me. I quickly learned how to be invisible.
I was a skinny squeaky autistic spectrum white kid living in an 99&44/100 Ivory Soap pure white community, kept that way by wink-wink unlawful redlining and police harassment. Nevertheless I was blessed to experience, in some very small and non-fatal ways, life among the excluded.
Otherwise I might have grown up to be just another clueless successful white male asshole.
All my siblings and my parents are long fled from my home town. The pod people invaded. I'm a minority white guy in my re-adopted community, where roads still carry the names of great grandparents' first cousins.
The place where my grandfather kept his horses is now a high end shopping mall, and the place where my wife's dad was born in a migrant worker's tent is owned by a homeowners association of mini-ranches, all neat and tidy, the Mexican groundskeepers and maids all going home to whatever awful places they live at the end of the day.