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An Anonymous Coward writes:

The list below appeared in my email the other day, I asked the sender if I could post his work and he said to go ahead. His inspiration for creating the list was this blog http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/03/more-microaggression-resources.html [blogspot.com] which in turn has some additional links ...

Micro-aggressions are becoming more common. I thought I would attempt to clarify the terminology by defining an aggression unit as a homicide and proceeding forward from there. The results are as follows:

yotta-aggression -- God destroying the multiverse in a fit of pique
zetta-aggression -- Armegadon
exa-aggression -- Deliberate Ignition of Super Nova
peta-aggression -- Intergalactic War
tera-aggression -- Interplanetary/Interspecies War
giga-aggression -- Major Nuclear War
mega-aggression -- Genocide
kilo-aggression -- Serious Terrorist Attack
hecto-aggression -- Pogrom/Tribal Warfare
deca-aggression -- Average Mass Murder Incident
Aggression Unit -- Individual homicide
deci-aggression -- Individual Mayhem
centi-aggression -- Bar Room Fist Fight
milli-aggression -- Deliberate use of a slur
micro-aggression -- Mentioning unpleasant facts
nano-aggression -- Distinguishing individuals
pico-aggression -- Distinguishing self from other
femto-aggression -- Existing
atto-aggression -- Accidentally ceasing to exist
zepto-aggression -- Deliberately ceasing to exist
yocto-aggression -- Never having existed

The last three are aggressive because they frustrate aggrieved individuals by removing targets upon which to vent their outrage, spleen, and general dissatisfaction with the way the universe has treated them.

...Personally, I thought he could have used a better title, perhaps something to do with the total perspective vortex from THHGTTG, or looking back to the famous book (later made into a movie) "Powers of Ten". Whatever the title, it helped me to put some things in perspective.

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