The weights of
microagressions are real. We make them everyday without noticing it and some
truly hurt people. It can lead to people making in unconscious decisions to
change the way they are to blend in with all the rest. For example some people
might get contacts, try to lose weight, change their hair all because they feel
bad about how they don't fit in with what is considered the norm. Microagressions are started by stereotypes
and continued by bias. People don't have to make generalizations but we do
because it is what we were taught. There is the argument of hypersensitivity.
Some people take things to offensive that weren't meant to be offensive. That
is where one makes their line of what is a joke and what was malice. There is
also my double standard theory. Like if two people share something in common
and decide to joke about it is funny but when someone who doesn’t share that
similarity and pokes fun of it then it becomes offensive. The two people who
share that similarity know what it is like while the other doesn’t thus, the
microaggression is perceived differently. Some microagressions may seem funny
and they negatively affect different people. I believe it all relies on the
person whether the weight of them affects it.

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