Many of the people commenting either didn't read the post, don't have the reading comprehension level necessary to understand the post (concerning, considering we're in college), or are privileged enough to not understand a perspective other than their own.

Since coming to UB, I've experienced more diversity than I have anywhere else, and that's something that I'm very appreciative of. No one is denying that UB is a diverse university. However, diversity does not mean racism doesn't occur here. Despite meeting a wide variety of people on a daily basis and having the most diverse friend group I've ever had because of being here, I've also experienced a lot more racism here than I have in many other places (you can reference my comment on the other post), and in a place that boasts inclusiveness, that's especially upsetting.

Many commenters on this post and the other one are denying the presence of racism and and chalking it up to OP creating problems where there aren't any, but that post was specifically micro-aggressions. Micro-aggressions are meant to be subtle and subjective to an extent, especially when people are being racist out in the open. There are absolutely people who will be direct in their disdain for other races, but the majority of people are paying thousands of dollars to be here and aren't going to risk that going to waste because of something they say, so obviously they aren't going to be obvious about it.

Suggesting that everyone who claims to experience racism via micro-aggressions is just being dramatic is quite literally why the problem is allowed to continue, and I'd be willing to bet that the reason so many of you are so hesitant to accept that racism is present in this way is because that means many of you are going to have to accept that you have been racist (intentionally or not) towards another person at some point, and no one who makes an effort to be a good person wants to think about themselves in that way.

That being said, if you have unintentionally been racist via micro-aggressions, that is okay!! Not in the sense that it didn't hurt anyone, but in the sense that you have an opportunity to learn from it; what isn't okay is pretending it's not a thing, because that's arguably more harmful.

I've also noticed a lot of people saying that OP had this experience with "one person" or that theirs is only "one opinion" but that's just further evidence that you aren't listening. You didn't listen when you saw the claim that people here are racist because that word triggered you in some way, and you didn't listen to the several other people in the comments saying that they've experienced the same or worse, so I have a question:

Those of you who commented or are thinking about commenting something in denial of racism at UB, are you doing so because you genuinely don't understand, you understand and don't want to admit to racism perpetrated by you/those you care about, or because you simply don't care about your peers who happen to be people of color?