u/jo_mama_ester

Was wondering if anyone has information on the collision this morning? I was driving to a shift at aprox 4:55am when I was stuck at the light on the west side of the intersection by the Jacksons due to an accident which happened minutes prior.

From my understanding it is that someone on a Lime scooter road out into the intersection and was struck by a car. From what I saw the car made it through the intersection and drug half of the lime scooter beneath the car while the other half was at the side of the road.

When stuck at the intersection there was a woman wailing on the sidewalk. I assumed she was the driver of the car, as she didn’t seem harmed but was very distraught. She was escorted to an ambulance and was taken away about twenty minutes later (car seemed relatively unharmed and someone else had to come pick it up an hour later so I’d assumed it was hers).

No idea who was on the scooter (people across street said it was a man). I haven’t seen anything on the news and I’m hoping that’s a good sign, but I can’t stop thinking about this woman who was crying at the side of the road and hope she, the person on the scooter, and any others affected in the incident are okay :(

Micro-aggressions take the form of attempts at relation through comments or compliments that are rooted in underlying/implicit biases that one is not aware of.
Often an attempt at ‘being nice’ that reveals one’s ignorance and internal bias through perpetuation of stereotypes and lack of understanding. It is not intended to cause any form of harm — despite the fact that it does.

Macro-aggressions come from an explicit bias and judgement that is intended to discredit, discomfort, and harm.

This distinction is very important as when people overuse the term ‘micro-aggression’ to describe what are actually macro-aggressions, it chalks up instances of harmful prejudice and perpetuation of stereotypes to being something that is strictly intentional and malicious and minimizes one’s ability to cause harm via their own ignorance and subconscious bias even when they mean well.