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"Holds no sway." That is wonderfully dismissive and empty, all at the same time. Bravo.
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It holds no sway means it does not even come close to overcoming the sound and logical advice that one should never try to argue 10,000 issues at once, and it is wise to address the most acute issues first.
It's dismissive perhaps because I don't respect people who can't follow simple and obvious strategy.
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And yet you are dismissing micro-aggressions and talking about college activists instead. That's how it's done.
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No, I'm not. Microaggressions are worth discussing. Among adults, like adults. You and I can discuss them and agree they have validity, or in some instances, that they do not.
There is no point in discussing microaggressions with semi-adults who believe that certain speech should be censored, there should be "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings," we must use gender-neutral pronouns, and that disregard of trans issues is on par with police shootings. People who engage in these lurid arguments should be ignored.
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Um, yes it is. That is exactly what you are saying.
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You're confusing the speaker and hysterical form of expression with the microaggression. The microaggression is usually valid. The college protester who equates it with police violence, or seeks to ban speech because of it, is preposterous and does a disservice to those who'd seek to discuss those microaggressions seriously.
But here's the easy fix. Adults can separate the frivolous rhetoric and its immature speaker from the valid points buried within their exhortations. And adults can determine it is unwise to discuss microaggressions of any kind as something on par with violence against innocents and predatory justice policies
