We're talking about perceptual junk that gets in the way of seeing another person as an individual worthy of the same respect we would hope others would give us. There are few things unsexier than being told that you must not a valid ethnic person because you don't know how to do the thing that white people saw someone do in that one TV show. Microaggressions are real, and it's no one's job to pretend you're not a clueless boob when you persist in acting like one.) Race Devaluation I wish this wasn't even a thing to have to talk about, but race devaluation is the ugly, ugly flipside of race fetishization.