taco, bird/cat :verified420:<p>"I do not use “<a href="https://meow.social/tags/microaggression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microaggression</span></a>” anymore. [...] A persistent daily low hum of <a href="https://meow.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> is not minor. I use the term “abuse” because aggression is not as exacting a term. Abuse accurately describes the action and its effects on people: distress, anger, worry, depression, anxiety, pain, fatigue, and suicide.</p><p>What other people call racial <a href="https://meow.social/tags/microaggressions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microaggressions</span></a> I call racist abuse. And I call the zero-tolerance policies preventing and punishing these abusers what they are: <a href="https://meow.social/tags/antiracist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiracist</span></a>. Only racists shy away from the R-word — <a href="https://meow.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> is steeped in denial."</p><ul><li>How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi</li></ul>