An elite City law firm has vowed to crackdown on “microaggressions” in the office by launching an anonymous reporting hotline for staff upset by “non-inclusive” language, behaviour or facial gestures at work.
Hogan Lovell, one of the highest earning firms in the world, says the hotline – which it describes with presumably unintended irony as “a progressive tool” – aims to create a “secure, anonymous channel to log incidents such as microaggressions or interactional bias related to gender, race, sexual orientation, disability and more”.
The new internal system was developed in partnership with InChorus, a technology firm which describes “microaggression” as “subtle, often unintentional, behaviours or comments that convey negative assumptions about a person’s identity or background”.
Culled from Critical Race Theory, this concept implicitly assumes that the people committing the ‘aggression’ will invariably be from an ‘oppressor’ class – white, male, heteronormative, etc – while those at the receiving end are those categories who have been historically marginalised.
Lawyers- there is a special place in hell, reserved just for them.
