Echoing the 1960s, the 2020s opened with racial tensions boiling. The Black Lives Matter movement is energized, issuing pleas to listen to Black voices regarding day-to-day discrimination and expressing frustrations over the slow progress of social justice. However, psychological scientists have published only several opinion pieces on racial microaggressions, primarily objections, and strikingly little empirical data. Here I document three trends in psychology that coincide with the academic pushback against microaggressions: concept-creep concerns, especially those regarding expanded notions of harm; the expansion of right-leaning values in moral judgments (moral foundations theory); and an emphasis on prejudice symmetry, with the political left deemed equivalently biased against right-leaning targets (e.g., the rich, police) as the right is against left-leaning targets (e.g., Black people, women, LGBT+ people). Psychological scientists have ignored power dynamics and have strayed from their mission to understand and combat prejudice against disadvantaged populations, rendering researchers distracted and ill-equipped to tackle the microaggression concept. An apparent creep paradox, with calls to both reduce (e.g., harm) and expand (e.g., liberal prejudices, conservative moral foundations) concepts, poses a serious challenge to research on prejudice. I discuss the need for psychology to better capture Black experiences and to “tell it like it is” or risk becoming an irrelevant discipline of study.

与 1960 年代相呼应，2020 年代开始时种族紧张局势沸腾。Black Lives Matter 运动充满活力，呼吁倾听黑人关于日常歧视的声音，并对社会正义进展缓慢表示失望。然而，心理学家只发表了几篇关于种族微攻击的观点文章，主要是反对意见，而且经验数据非常少。在这里，我记录了与学术反对微攻击相一致的三个心理学趋势：概念蠕变问题，尤其是关于伤害概念的扩展问题；道德判断中右倾价值观的扩展（道德基础理论）；并强调偏见对称, 政治左派被视为对右倾目标（例如，富人、警察）具有同等偏见，因为右派反对左倾目标（例如，黑人、妇女、LGBT+ 人）。心理科学家忽视了权力动态，偏离了理解和打击对弱势群体的偏见的使命，使研究人员分心并且没有能力解决微攻击概念。一个明显的蠕变悖论，呼吁减少（例如，伤害）和扩大（例如，自由主义偏见，保守的道德基础）概念，对偏见的研究提出了严峻的挑战。我讨论了心理学需要更好地捕捉黑人的经历，并“照原样说出来”，否则就有可能成为一门不相关的研究学科。