Nice thread (look forward to reading the paper). It captures a recurring theme in the social psych of "people are idiots and fools" (and debunks one particular case): 1. Design a study to exploit something that people normally do for good reasons, but corrupt the reasons, so that 2. People look like idiots and fools 3. Then trumpet to the world how idiotic and foolish people are. "Hey, I just pubished a peer reviewed study! p<.05! You don't believe people are fools? Are you some sort of science denier?" Same problem occurs in some of: stereotype (in?)accuracy, stereotype biases, implicit "bias," attribution "errors," heuristics, confirmation bias, expectancy biases, context effects, conformity and more.

Hey, @robsica, please add this paper to your repository of papers critical of microaggressions! Then I will tweet it out! It is excellent. sites.rutgers.edu/lee-jussim…

Bingo! Allegations of speech causing harm are almost never backed by evidence of harm. It's usually assumptions all the way down. @lakens is also good on this. But psych sci reformers have generally been silent, or worse, complicit in speech erosion.