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Isn't it more offensive that you're saying minorities are insecure and/or oversensitive?
by gthtjtkt 8y ago
Isn't it more offensive that you're saying minorities are insecure and/or oversensitive?
- lakechfoma 8y agoRead the comment from mistersquid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935683 to understand the point
- gthtjtkt 8y agoThat comment doesn't contradict my point at all. All it says is "Someone who has been bullied may interpret future slights as more of the same bullying." That has absolutely nothing to do with race or gender, and I still think it's for more insulting to imply that people in specific demographics are more sensitive or insecure.
- ajkjk 8y agoI think that the reason so many people find this implication palatable is that there are loads of examples of people saying, from experience, that it does in fact happen this way. The idea is not that they're 'fundamentally' more sensitive or insecure; it's that they're _empirically_ more sensitive and insecure, due to the circumstances of reality.
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