Using our readings on Hume assess whether the recent idea of a microaggression is coherent? What matters is not what you think but what Hume would say about this contemporary idea. Tease out his answer from the passages assigned in the syllabus.

Required: Bold the quotations and citations used directly from your reading of our Hume book. You must give detailed citations and short illustrative quotations (no more than two-line quotes). DO NOT give big quotes, give me analysis. Do not use secondary literature.
How to get a good grade:
Well-edited, polished, sophisticated, these are the basics, but recall: I am asking for analysis not description. Your task is to mine the text to demonstrate your wide reading of our book. What is required is concept manipulation or what philosophers call dialectic. Make your essay professional, lots of details, cites, from the text.
The Prompt: Using our readings on Hume assess whether the recent idea of a microaggression is coherent? What matters is not what you think but what Hume would say about this contemporary idea. Tease out his answer from the passages assigned in the syllabus.
Here are some things people have said about the idea of a microaggression:
Vox magazine explains (https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031073/what-are-microaggressions) that microaggressions are “the everyday slights, indignities, put downs and insults” of the marginalized. The man who coined the idea says microaggressions are “put-downs, done in automatic, preconscious, or unconscious fashion. These mini disasters accumulate.” And more: “People who engage in microaggressions are ordinary folks who experience themselves as good, moral, decent individuals. Microaggressions occur because they are outside the level of conscious awareness of the perpetrator.”

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