Microaggressions

It makes me happy that someone has finally put a name on it. It being the seemingly harmless comments people make. Some common microaggressions are " you're pretty for a black girl", " you're too smart to be black", or " you're strong for a girl". All of these comments have a little backlash that commentor may not notice, but the one receiving the compliment definately will. The author talks about transexual microaggressions and how to stop them. I understand need to stop them, but I don't understand how. The only way to stop them is for everyone to be open minded, which I doubt will ever happen. Instead the commentor of the microaggression should be informed how offensive their comment really was. I surprisingly haven't had any run in with microaggressions, atleast I don't think so. The author worked in technology, the last place we'd think to have prejudice employees because it's so diverse.