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Privilege Checking the Privilege Checkers
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThere is some balance needed. Take "speech is violence", for example. I've seen a family member destroyed by verbal abuse. I've seen a friend destroyed by gossip, and thought that it might have been kinder for them to just stick a knife in his back. Some speech really does qualify as a kind of violence. And yet, most (90%? 95%? 99%?) of the "speech is violence" stuff is "this person is criticizing my ideas or beliefs and it makes me feel bad" variety. The correct response is some variant of "grow a thicker skin".
- grawprog 9y agoEveryone's privileged over someone else in some way unless you are literally living the worst life on the planet. That's how life is. I don't even understand how that could possibly change.