"Y'all are just too sensitive"

Members of marginalized communities are often accused of being “too sensitive” when subjected to supposedly harmless acts of microaggression. This paper explores a simulated society consisting of marginalized and non-marginalized agents who interact and may, based on their individually held convictions, commit acts of microaggressions. Agents witnessing a microaggression might condone, ignore or condemn such microaggressions, thus potentially influencing a perpetrator’s conviction. A prototype model has been implemented in NetLogo, and possible applications are briefly discussed.

Preprint available on arXiv.

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• DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.01017

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Johannah Sprinz, 2022. "Y'all are just too sensitive". A computational ethics approach to understanding how prejudice against marginalized communities becomes epistemic belief. Preprint, Ithaca, NY: arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2207.01017

@misc{10.48550/arXiv.2207.01017,
  author       = "Johannah Sprinz",
  title        = ""Y'all are just too sensitive". A computational ethics approach to understanding how prejudice against marginalized communities becomes epistemic belief.",
  year         = 2022,
  month        = "Jun",
  howpublished = "Preprint, arXiv",
  doi          = "10.48550/arXiv.2207.01017",
}