David Harsanyi on Republican ‘Microaggressions’

In a recent piece
in Politico titled “Why Are Asian Americans
Democrats?” professors Alexander Kuo, Neil Malhotra, and Cecilia
Hyunjung Mo make the contention that “microaggressions” and social
exclusion have pushed the entire Asian-American community to vote
for the Democratic Party. Microaggressions, according to Fordham
University, “are common verbal, behavioral, and environmental
indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate
hostile or negative slights to marginalized groups.”

But David Harsanyi finds it difficult to believe that Asian
Americans, as the professors maintain, believe half the country is
out to marginalize them with a bunch of subtle insinuations. In our
real-world interactions, we’re just not that sensitive. We
shouldn’t be that sensitive in our politics, either, Harsanyi
says. 

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