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What gives you the right to invalidate my father's feelings? You don't understand his lived experience (he was present at a major Islamic terrorist attack) at a
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
What gives you the right to invalidate my father's feelings? You don't understand his lived experience (he was present at a major Islamic terrorist attack) at all!
I believe that's the standard social justice retort to your claims.
Being a more logically minded person, I'll instead invert it; your retort to my comment is that one person in the aforementioned demographic (e.g. a white/asian male) doesn't agree with me. If I could find one person in your aforementioned demographic (e.g. a black female) who didn't agree with you, would that be a valid retort against your comment?
- SolaceQuantum 11y agoI don't understand why you are dismissing claims as social justice and then trying to claim you are a more logically minded person. How is the claim that not all asian people agree with your father or had traumatic experiences with terrorism also invalidating experiences your father had? You claim to be a logical minded person but I'm not following the logic that your father's experiences are invalidated when someone says they don't share that view.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoPerhaps I misunderstood your post - I thought you were disagreeing and attempting to contribute to the conversation. Perhaps you were just randomly sharing your feelings for no reason?
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- SolaceQuantum 11y agoI'm saying in a time where you are taking the experiences of your father and attributing it to all white/asian middle class people, that isn't necessarily great.
- yummyfajitas 11y ago...attributing it to all white/asian middle class people... I never did this.
- dang 11y agoNot cool. That crosses the line into incivility. I know you like to stay as close to the line as you can get without crossing it—which is far better than crossing it—but I wish you wouldn't. Your posts would be much better if you would show readers the respect of simply taking that edge out. They're literally edgy, and this acts as a low-grade provocation even when you're not technically saying anything abusive. This is not the way to bring the best out of your interlocutors and fellow users, and it's still a toxin in HN's environment, even if it's below the legal level. Instead, you should optimize for overall thread quality, which I'm sure you could do if you wanted to. There's some variant of the principle of charity in here somewhere.
- Tycho 11y agoTo be honest I find it highly entertaining (and interesting).
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