Is Micro-Aggression a Stereotypical Micro-Ggression?

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The term micro-ggressions is a term of which I'm slightly skeptical because I think that either something really is an aggression or it's a way of finding an appropriateness in things like giving the elements of style where there really is none. But I guess the question is I can absolutely see a stereotypical micro-aggression when you walk up to an Asian American person, they wear your farm, wear your really farm, etc. Why can't that be expressed within the older language? Is this a failure of liberals to make a room for those critiques and to express them within our own language?

Wesley Yang is one of the America’s leading essayists. From “Paper Tigers,” his examination of why Asian-Americans remain underrepresented in leaderships positions, to “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” his meditation on the shooter who killed 33 people at Virginia Tech, he has traced America’s shifting understanding of race.

But over the past years, the focus of Yang’s work has subtly shifted. He is now trying to chronicle and explain what he calls the “successor ideology,” the constellation of ideas that seek to usurp liberalism, and which others have called by such names as “wokeness” or “social justice.”

In the latest episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk and Wesley Yang discuss the precise definition of the successor ideology; the need for genuine empathy when exchanging ideas; and what forms of cultural sensitivity are truly inclusive as opposed to alienating

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