I was not engaging with the argument made by the post I replied to because the poster's argument is completely beside the point. When someone says "I experienc

I was not engaging with the argument made by the post I replied to because the poster's argument is completely beside the point. When someone says "I experienced racism because I'm black," the appropriate response is not "Well, actually, lots of people who aren't black experienced that terrible thing." So what if lots of non-black people experienced that terrible thing? That's not what we're talking about here. Your statement is re-centering the conversation away from the black person who's describing their experience. And you know what? It's the black people who are being routinely discriminated against, incarcerated, and killed because of racism, so maybe it's irrelevant to say "my feelings were hurt on IRC too."