Is it a microagression or a macroagression

Political comment has always been allowed greater freedom and latitude; people in power have never had the protection from insult and abusive comment that protect ordinary citizens and audiences.

While nicely executed, it's clearly the product of a comic-book sensibility appropriate to the Twitterverse where the dubious is constantly replaced by the inconsequential.

There are plenty of stills available that show the image in the eye-blink it merits. Was there a reason you preferred we devote 2:45 minutes to vapid video?
 
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Since there's no possible way that anything but Trump's personal fear of being unloved could be injured by a student painting hanging in a university art department gallery in Alaska, I'd have to say this 'aggression' is pretty much 'micro'. It's not as if throngs of the folks who matter to the President were likely to fill the gallery. Even if the MSM they claim they pay no attention to tried to make this "alternate fact" into pretend news, it's just a sophomoric (literally) attempt at satire.

You'd have to ask the folks who have gotten riled up about it why they chose to use the term at all. It certainly doesn't seem as if they thought they — or the painting's subject — were pathetic.
 
^ But if students can get all bent out of shape about common expressions (that is a black and white issue) being "micro-aggression's" and trying to shut down speakers with whom they disagree, what makes this "painting" any different.
 
Aardvark154 said:
^ But if students can get all bent out of shape about common expressions (that is a black and white issue) being "micro-aggression's" and trying to shut down speakers with whom they disagree, what makes this "painting" any different.
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There is nothing different; clearly folks are upset at yet another micro-agression, this time an insignificant bit of student art hanging in an out of the way university. A painting that's essentially nothing more than an elaborate political cartoon. Because the media knew it would excite, they made sure others saw it. And they were right, you took to TERB to complain about you or your President being micro-aggressed. There's probably folks demanding the gallery remove the piece and make the space safe for them. That's what political cartoonery has always gone for. And that's why media have always made a place for it; even though it isn't news, it gets eyeballs reliably.

People always get bent out of shape and always will; the difference is that in academic setting they invent scholarly terminology to discuss the shaping and bending. Now we have 'micro-agression' where we use to have to make do with, 'libel', 'slander', 'insult', 'tasteless' and 'utterly without redeeming social value'.

Ain't progress something?
 
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