Microaggression - a real-world example

[sun rise]

This is a sadly classic story about the casual racism in small acts happens:

A Dual Degree From Oxford. A Medical Degree From Harvard. Neither Protected Me From Racism

The patient yelled that he did not want to be seen by a Black person and demanded I leave.
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“Internationals like you do well on tests but struggle with clinical skills.” Ironically, I was receiving credit for testing well, but in the same breath, the goalposts were shifted.
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Like the professor who wrote my recommendation letter, but also confused me with another Black classmate for years. Or the patient who assumed I was the trainee and my white student was in charge. Or the patient’s family member who asked if I was "here to pick up the food tray," despite my doctor’s white coat.
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I came to the gradual realization that, far from being isolated, these experiences revealed deeply held assumptions and attitudes about me as a Black person. These attitudes constitute the scaffolding that is structural racism, which manifests daily in the lived realities of Black people.

 

[Mindmaster]

I came to the gradual realization that, far from being isolated, these experiences revealed deeply held assumptions and attitudes about me as a Black person. These attitudes constitute the scaffolding that is structural racism, which manifests daily in the lived realities of Black people.

These guys are really wasting a lot of money on worthless degrees.

Micro-aggressions require belief to be real, therefore they're not. Though I hate thinking in absolutes real racism is completely dead, and dummies confuse classism for racism all day. There is certainly classism, but racism died about 40 years ago and if you're not older than that you don't even have a concept of what it is.

It's also normal for people to have presumptions based on any defining characteristic. This isn't really indicative of racism, but normal discrimination between people. Everyone discriminates on all sorts of criteria like how humorous we find someone, how tall, how pretty, skin tone, and a million other things, but they're not usually held against the person they're just defining characteristics. This isn't exactly the same thing...

But, if you'd like to read that myopically as some sort of systematic oppression I guess you can, but I'll laugh at it.

 

[Sw. Vandana Jyothi]

This is a sadly classic story about the casual racism in small acts happens:

A Dual Degree From Oxford. A Medical Degree From Harvard. Neither Protected Me From Racism

The patient yelled that he did not want to be seen by a Black person and demanded I leave.
...
“Internationals like you do well on tests but struggle with clinical skills.” Ironically, I was receiving credit for testing well, but in the same breath, the goalposts were shifted.
...
Like the professor who wrote my recommendation letter, but also confused me with another Black classmate for years. Or the patient who assumed I was the trainee and my white student was in charge. Or the patient’s family member who asked if I was "here to pick up the food tray," despite my doctor’s white coat.
...
I came to the gradual realization that, far from being isolated, these experiences revealed deeply held assumptions and attitudes about me as a Black person. These attitudes constitute the scaffolding that is structural racism, which manifests daily in the lived realities of Black people.

Good Godly grief!!! Those are horrible stories of endemic racism, as you say. Pay no attention to Mindmaster. He obviously hasn't mastered anything, including compassion. And a complete hooray for you that you're still standing and not spewing hate and nonsense yourself. Kudos, sun rise, it speaks volumes for your character.