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In reply to the discussion: What the heck is a microaggression, anyway? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And any dismissals I do are based on that, not "out of hand".
I think that statements like "there is everything wrong with white people wearing dreadlocks" not only speak for themselves, they don't leave a lot of room for nuance. Do they?
The piece, to my reading, is a train wreck of overwrought hyperbole. (examples: Because of the trauma of seeing white pseudo-hippies with dreads and people doing drugs openly, the fest was a "nightmare", and "was not a safe space for me"-- direct quotes.) Unless other things went down at the Electronic Forest that she doesn't detail in her piece; but, given the seriousness that she attached to things like seeing white people with dreads and seeing white people doing drugs in public, one has to believe that any micgraoggressions in excess of that- like, someone actually saying something in front of or TO her, for instance, as opposed to minding their own dread-wearing, pot smoking business--- would have made it into the piece.
http://www.bupipedream.com/opinion/53740/edm-festivals-fraught-with-white-privilege/
I believe that microaggression is a legitimate awareness-raising term, but that doesn't mean everyone who ever uses it nails it accurately, or gets a free pass on misapplying it so egregiously.