Leaked Univ. Utah Diversity Session: Even Well-Received Compliments Now Microaggressions

A staff member at the University of Utah reached out to me this week with a recording from a recent staff training on “microaggressions.” Immediately, I popped on my headphones, as few things delight me more than being a fly on the wall in other people’s unhinged diversity sessions. 

For those still blissfully unacquainted, Merriam Webster defines “microaggression” as a “comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority).”