Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2021 Sep;16(5):926-931. doi: 10.1177/1745691621994263.
This commentary draws attention to core assumptions about the nature of society that underlie the current debate on microaggressions. For proponents of microaggression research, the starting assumption is one of a racist society. That is, microaggressions have their source and power within an inequitable, racially stratified society. In contrast, critics of microaggressions begin with the assumption of an equitable society, or at least would not endorse the assumption of a racist society. These two different starting assumptions lead to dramatically different conclusions about the concept of microaggressions. As long as these assumptions are not explicitly recognized, debates on methods, findings, and so on will never be reconciled.
本评论提请关注当前关于微侵犯言论辩论所依据的关于社会本质的核心假设。对于微侵犯言论研究的支持者来说，其基本假设是存在一个种族主义社会。也就是说，微侵犯行为源自一个不公平、种族分层的社会，并从中获得其力量。相比之下，微侵犯言论的批评者则从一个公平社会的假设出发，或者至少不会认可种族主义社会的假设。这两种截然不同的假设前提导致了对微侵犯言论概念的截然不同的结论。只要这些假设没有被明确认识到，关于方法、发现等的争论就永远不会得到和解。
