> How do you determine if the grievance is valid or not? I can't give you an algorithm in advance that will let you decide every political and social issue eve

> How do you determine if the grievance is valid or not? I can't give you an algorithm in advance that will let you decide every political and social issue ever. That's obviously not possible. There are heuristics, like. You can put yourself in the other person's shoes, try to empathize with them to figure out where they're coming from, and work out what their values and their reasoning is. You're a human being, a social creature whose most distinctive characteristic is extremely complex and nuanced communication. Your brain was made for this. > There are people up in arms about Maryland's flag because the checkered pattern is a confederacy symbol which somehow triggers them. The best course of action for those people is not to change the Maryland flag but rather to get them therapy so they can learn how to live without getting offended. I'm gonna let you in on a secret. If you treat everyone with contempt and dismissal, then every conclusion you come to about them will be contemptful dismissal.