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            1. To make econ more diverse, maybe we also need to pay attention to micro-aggressions faced by people for underrepresented groups. A (short) thread ⤵️
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            First, a sort of "disclaimer": I don't have an opinion on micro-aggressions. It's more a bunch of intuitions. This thread is not intended to show how clever I am (not). It's intended to bring micro-aggressions on the table to discuss them. So feel free to participate!
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          If we look at the discrimination faced by various groups of underrepresented people in economics, some groups report (much) higher level of discrimination than others. @paulgp/1108564238606303232
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        But if we look at how people respond to discrimination, some groups have a stronger response than what they experienced (i.e. their response is only weakly predicted by their experience). Why this (at least partial) disconnect? @paulgp/1108564250190966785
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      My intuition is that it *could* be micro-aggressions. Micro-aggressions are not blatant discrimination, but they can lead to self-censorship (anecdotal evidence: my own experience).
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    It reminds me this thread by @JoshuaSGoodman on teaching evaluations: even though 99% of the evaluations are positive or offer constructive criticism, you only remember the 1% that are just mean. @JoshuaSGoodman/1100397555379245056
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      I suspect micro-aggressions have a similar effect: just a couple of those can be enough for someone to not feel welcomed, and go with the self-censorship road (or decide for a more extreme response, see upward).
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        Another example is soccer stadiums. In Europe, soccer fans have a homophobia problem (on top of a racism problem…). As a soccer fan myself (go @ASNancyLorraine!), I regularly go see games.
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          Inevitably, during a game I will hear someone saying something homophobic (for the sake of politeness, I won't reproduce the kind of horrors they say). Is this person just ignorant, or actually homophobic? I don't know that. And to protect myself, I *always* assume the worst.
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            It means that if I go see a game with my (putative) boyfriend, I won't kiss him. I won't hold his hand. I won't do anything that may signal I'm gay. In other words, I am censoring myself.
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              If micro-aggressions are actually a thing, an implication would be that addressing blatant discrimination is probably not enough to improve the climate. It would mean that we need to do more, and educate ourselves on a larger scale.
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                What are your thoughts on all of this? Is there anything I might have missed? I'm aware I mostly have anecdotal evidences, so this is why I want to be careful.
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