> In real life, people implicitly respond to the fact that they're talking to a physically unable person, a Black person, a Trans person, a cis woman, a person

> In real life, people implicitly respond to the fact that they're talking to a physically unable person, a Black person, a Trans person, a cis woman, a person they're attracted to, an ESL speaker, etc, and this changes the course of things. This doesn't change things, this is how it's supposed to work and how we have evolved to thrive with. I understand that some marginalised groups find it freeing to discuss with someone without having to show their physical presence, but let me stress that that is a change, and a huge one, on how we evolved to communicate and socialise. There is a non-zero number of terrible people online abusing members of these groups that would be able to feel empathy if they could see that the person in they're talking to is Black, queer or disabled. In fact, I reckon that number of people that would be "nicer" in real life is much larger than you'd expect.