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It doesn't take profanity to alienate readers who don't already share your views. I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter,

It doesn't take profanity to alienate readers who don't already share your views. I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter, and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem (and how the word privilege is heavily coded with political affiliations and a whole pile of antagonistic/moralizing dogma at this point). You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory. You recognized the problem, and opted to try to reframe it in more favorable terms to deny the possibility for improvement. If the original commenter wants to reach across that Red Tribe / Blue Tribe divider and have an actual discussion (or even convince a neutral 3rd party of their views), their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this.

hnlmorg 5y ago
> I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter, This is a multi-user forum not a peer2peer chat client. > and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem No, I'm saying the accusation of privilege is correct and it's not a problem to point out to people on here that we are privileged. Because we are. > You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory. If you're in the top 10% and can't stand being called privileged then the problem isn't the tone of the accuser, it's the person receiving the comment. The sooner privileged people stop acting like the victims, the sooner we can start fixing the worlds actual problems. > their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this. Actually I was arguing that it's not counter-productive. It was the point of their post and a point very much worth making. I've seen both sides of the social scale and we are definitely not on the side that should be getting offended when people should "privilege" ;)

hnlmorg 5y ago

> I don't know why you're commenting, since you're not the original commenter, This is a multi-user forum not a peer2peer chat client. > and your very comment shows how you already recognize the generic accusation-of-privilege to be the problem No, I'm saying the accusation of privilege is correct and it's not a problem to point out to people on here that we are privileged. Because we are. > You already knew how and why it would be inflammatory. If you're in the top 10% and can't stand being called privileged then the problem isn't the tone of the accuser, it's the person receiving the comment. The sooner privileged people stop acting like the victims, the sooner we can start fixing the worlds actual problems. > their first sentence (and general tone) is quite counter-productive, and you know this. Actually I was arguing that it's not counter-productive. It was the point of their post and a point very much worth making. I've seen both sides of the social scale and we are definitely not on the side that should be getting offended when people should "privilege" ;)