theatlantic | Last week, I noted an effort by two sociologists to explain the rise of what they call “victimhood culture.” They focused their paper on “a new species of social control that is increasingly common at American colleges: the publicizing of microaggressions.” The
scores of emails I’ve received in response to the article include
people on both sides of the larger debate on whether “microaggressions”
are a sound or unsound framework. Its defenders often fail to realize
how many of its critics share their desired ends, if not their preferred
means.
