{"id":963,"date":"2019-01-02T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=963"},"modified":"2019-01-02T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T23:46:00","slug":"micro-insult-and-macro-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/02\/micro-insult-and-macro-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-Insult and Macro-Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/many-small-microaggressions-add-up-to-something-big-50694?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+November+17+2015+-+3832&amp;utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+November+17+2015+-+3832+CID_ade64307a7180ddcef37b99b17352b80&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&amp;utm_term=Many+small+microaggressions+add+up+to+something+big\">Not very deep<\/a>, but certainly right. The trick will be to genuinely sensitize people to the hurts they inflict, knowingly or unknowingly, otherwise there will only be the pretence of empathy, practised as empty PC method-acting.<\/p>\n<p>I have lately  (far too late in life) become meta-sensitized on behalf of victims who are blind to the micro-insults yet suffer infinitely worse macro-injuries (\u201cmore than one way to skin a cat,\u201d \u201csquealing like a stuck pig\u201d\u2026). <\/p>\n<p><img width='110' height='76' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/lamb1.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' \/>If that triggered a reflexive smile then you are face to face with the real heart of the problem  \u2014 and it is indeed about whether one really has a heart, nothing more, nothing less. It\u2019s not called compassion when we care about ourselves or our loved ones. It begins outside that circle. And it encompasses every innocent being that feels.<\/p>\n<p>In a variant on \u201cwe always hurt the ones we love\u201d: <i>We always revile the ones we hurt.<\/i> Helps us live with ourselves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not very deep, but certainly right. The trick will be to genuinely sensitize people to the hurts they inflict, knowingly or unknowingly, otherwise there will only be the pretence of empathy, practised as empty PC method-acting. I have lately (far too late in life) become meta-sensitized on behalf of victims who are blind to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/02\/micro-insult-and-macro-injury\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Micro-Insult and Macro-Injury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}