'Microaggressions' | BBC staff to receive diversity lessons

Staff based at the BBC are set to be given diversity lessons in order to stamp out inadvertent instances of racism, also known as ‘microaggressions’.

According to the Daily Mail, the BBC’s Drama Commissioning Controller, Piers Wenger, has been in discussions about how the organisation can remove unconscious bias in order to help improve the representation of ethnic minorities.

Speaking to Edinburgh TV, Wenger said that it was now ‘ground zero’ and ‘the moment where we have to get it right’.

A 'microaggression' is defined as a statement or action which can be regarded as indirect or unintentional discrimination against an ethnic minority group.