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Good luck making any headway trying to talk about things like this by using reason. These people and their enablers don't care about reason, they'll just accuse

Good luck making any headway trying to talk about things like this by using reason. These people and their enablers don't care about reason, they'll just accuse you of "denying their lived experience" or some other such meaningless string of words. Any attempt to actually help them, as opposed to nodding in firm agreement, is going to be met as if it is an act of aggression. They don't want help because they know they don't need help, not the kind they say they need anyway. They want affirmation. The best thing you can do is just live your life as if they don't matter, mock them whenever you feel like it, and let them destroy their lives, which they inevitably will. That may be cold, but you can take a horse to water...

pessimizer 5y ago
When you derive all of your self-worth from a disadvantaged identity, attacking that identity is akin to attempting murder. This is different from people with actual disadvantages who have spend enormous effort to hide and to hopefully overcome them, not to broadcast them. Broadcasting weakness is not something that animals do except to avoid imminent and overwhelming attack. My upset is when people who actually disadvantaged get caught up in this rhetoric and ideology. When the heat gets too hot for the fakers, they'll move on to the next thing, leaving the people with real problems behind.