Everyday microaggressions cumulatively make targets more vulnerable to lethal violence

Evidence

In short, accumulated everyday racisms dispose their object populations, exposing them to extended abjection, rendering them readier, more vulnerable targets of legitimated violence and ultimately unnoticed or overlooked death. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 143

Categorization

• SEED: Strong angle: the epidemiology of microaggressions — how small recurring degradations lower a population’s defenses against being killed, treated as a measurable public-health pathway, not just moral outrage.
• XREF: connects to: Mass violence evolves progressively from lesser harms rather than erupting suddenly; Cumulative micro-aggressions compound into vulnerability to structural violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 143; Low-coordination scattered violence can cause more damage than organized violence — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 733 (+2 more)