What do you mean by “the primary factor”? The primary factor in what? I think it’s true that in many cases, microagressions don’t matter in comparison to macroagressions. E.g. when people make Jew jokes, I’m a little on edge not because of the joke itself, but because the joke being told is a bit of evidence (and maybe a part of a strategy) that some people are trying to gain common knowledge of a shared goal of physically attacking Jews. On the other hand I think that in some contexts, the microaggressions together are an attack on their own, even without the threats.
What do you mean by “the primary factor”? The primary factor in what? I think it’s true that in many cases, microagressions don’t matter in comparison to macroagressions. E.g. when people make Jew jokes, I’m a little on edge not because of the joke itself, but because the joke being told is a bit of evidence (and maybe a part of a strategy) that some people are trying to gain common knowledge of a shared goal of physically attacking Jews. On the other hand I think that in some contexts, the microaggressions together are an attack on their own, even without the threats.