The only thing worse than racism is imagined racism. By James Macpherson.

I have taught my black children that the only thing worse than racism is imagined racism. Actual racism can be confronted and dealt with. But imagined racism — where racist undertones are presumed in every interaction — is a bondage from which you can never be freed since the chains exist entirely in your own mind. …

Focusing on subtle racism and micro-aggressions will only train people to pore over the minutiae of every conversation and to sift through the entrails of every interaction in search of hidden racism. It prepares a small group of people to be always ready to take offence. And it trains everybody else to go through life always fearful of giving offence. As a result everyone is worse off, though nothing has actually happened.

Great example:

If my adopted Ethiopian sons end up working in parliament, no one will ask them where they are from for fear what they will hear is that, because they are black, they can’t be Australian. Subtle, isn’t it?

So no one will ask them where they are from, and they will assume it is because people aren’t interested in them because of their colour.

Aha! A micro-aggression. See how this works? Talk of micro-aggression reduces staff to micro-people incapable of ever being normal thanks to the all-seeing microscope of race-obsessed micromanagers.

Everyone is diminished by the experience. Everyone, that is, except for the ever-expanding team of consultants required to train staff to spot subtle racism and micro-aggressions since they are so subtle and so microscopic that they can be seen only with the aid of taxpayer-funded training.

Funny:

I told my son the other night it was time to turn off the TV and go to bed. Straight-faced, he replied: “Why? Because I’m black?” A smirk slowly formed across his face and we both burst out laughing. So-called micro-aggressions are harmful to my son, but only because he might split his sides from laughter.