What is a "microaggression"?

It's like gay pride parades, or the public existence of gay people in general, doing things that are normally reserved for straight people, like holding hands or kissing. Technically, they aren't causing anybody any direct harm (unless the parade runs over someone or something but let's say these are ideal parade conditions where the parade operates as it's intended). But they still offend conservatives for a wide variety of tiny little reasons. They just don't generally call it that.

Personally, I feel that the whole micro-aggression thing is kind of a load, regardless of which side it's coming from. Using your own hypersensitivity to whatever to claim victim status every time someone does something you don't like, that's a micro-passive-aggression.

 

Please. Nobody beats the right-wingers when it comes to being offended at everything that isn't them, and trying to pass a law against everything that offends them. You guys complain about left-wingers disagreeing with you like it's a physical assault, while you're throwing people in prison for smoking a joint because you prefer beer.

 

The fact you think I'm right wing shows how much you know about me.

Leftists are just offended by different things and as such want to ban different things.

 

No, leftists want to ban things that are actually physically dangerous to people, like pollution, not things that merely offend them. They can go too far -- cigarette-smoking in public springs to mind -- but the thinking remains consistent, that they want to ban cigarettes because the smoke is theoretically dangerous to the people around the smoker. Right-wingers want to ban things merely because they don't like them, or even because they just don't like the people that do like them. Huge difference.

For example, there's nobody trying to ban a straight pride parade. Or even a white pride parade. Right-wingers are just chicken 'cause they know they'll get made fun of, and being made fun of, in their world, is the same as an assault. When it's against them, anyway.

 

We're talking about microaggressions. In other words, little phrases the recipient takes to be offensive even when the person saying them is not trying to offend in any way. Leftists seem to hate when people cause offense - that isn't any more rational than rightists hating people different from them. In neither case are the things they hate actually harmful, but they perceive them to be.

 

That's both parties, not just one.