Macroaggressions and Civil Discourse

Macrointervention processes and strategies for leaders, changemakers, advocates, allies, and targets: A new framework to address macroaggressions in systems

“…Macroaggressions are considered to be farreaching, broad based, and pervasive in scope. Although many scholars contend that macroaggressions are "large" and microaggressions are "small," this contention is problematic and inaccurate (see Druery, Young, & Elbert, 2018). In fact, there is overlap between microaggressions and macroaggressions.…”

“…Importantly, some scholars argue that the term "microaggressions" is a misnomer in that "micro" means smalls, but microaggressions are not small (see Druery et al, 2018). Druery et al (2018) contend that the commonly-used nomenclature of microaggressions can be misleading, misapplied, and minimizing to the scope and type of race-related events that have been happening against racial, ethnic, and linguistic minority and other vulnerable populations. Levchak (2018) agrees that the distinction between microaggressions and macroaggressions may not be so clear and it could be more useful to consider these constructs on a continuum.…”