Whistleblower Docs Reveal NASA Held ‘Microaggressions’ Training

New whistleblower documents reveal that NASA held an “Understanding Microaggressions” training, where employees learned that these are incidents “in which someone accidentally makes an offensive statement or asks an insensitive question.”  Per the NASA training documents, posted to Twitter by Keri Smith, microaggressions “happen casually, frequently and often without any harm intended, in everyday life.”  NASA […]

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New whistleblower documents reveal that NASA held an “Understanding Microaggressions” training, where employees learned that these are incidents “in which someone accidentally makes an offensive statement or asks an insensitive question.” 

Per the NASA training documents, posted to Twitter by Keri Smith, microaggressions “happen casually, frequently and often without any harm intended, in everyday life.” 

NASA Microaggression Training: @claren & I just got these docs from an internal whistleblower at @NASA – this is from an employee training where they learn that “microaggressions” are incidents where a NASA employee “accidentally makes an offensive statement” pic.twitter.com/FM8IcI4bZO

— Keri Smith, Unsafe Space (@ksemamajama) July 21, 2021

Microaggressions are “verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults to the target person or group.” They may “seem small; but compounded over time, they can have a harmful impact on an employee’s experience, physical health, and psychological well-being.” 

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