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You're responding to a point he isn't making. He's not claiming that one's circumstances don't contribute to one's success; obviously, we're all "privileged" to
by hacker789 14y ago
You're responding to a point he isn't making. He's not claiming that one's circumstances don't contribute to one's success; obviously, we're all "privileged" to be living in the first world in the 21st century.
You took this opportunity to dismiss his personal experiences, and bizarrely, you implied that one's insight regarding a situation is entirely unwelcome without having personally experienced that exact same situation. If that's the case, take your own advice and leave him alone.
You're poisoning this discussion. Just stop.
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- wpietri 14y agoThe difference being where the discussion started. When a discussion starts with the experience of sexism, then a post that basically says, "well my life as a guy was also hard" derails the discussion. Your criticism would be valid if this were a discussion that had started with Ed's personal experiences. It didn't.
- triplesec 14y agoDo you know this guy? Perhaps there other other unprivileged issues he has had to deal with by being a member of one or more of those groups.
- triplesec 14y agoher experiences, maybe? i believe the poster in question is more likely than not to be female Edit: ah, it seems most people are saying "he" so I suspect prior knowledge of a known poster (though still unclear). My "male assumption" sexist lights were flashing pretty heavily though.