But aggression is not unintentional or accidental. If you bump into someone by accident and never meant them any harm, it is not an act of aggression, although the other person may misperceive it as one. Unfortunately, when Sue included “unintentional” slights, and when he defined the slights entirely in terms of the listener’s interpretation, he encouraged people to make such misperceptions.
This is a good criticism of microagressions imo, it's not a topic I've read much about but I'm quite sympathetic to this explanation for why it's harmful (the concept itself, that is)
