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In reply to the discussion: If you are the member of a privileged group AND call yourself progressive [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)I think it simply comes down to communication.
Most individuals are empathetic, only a very few are not hardwired to feel for others. Everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, status, etc. has experienced discrimination and suffering at some point in their lives. It is a part of life.
Message boards are very tricky. They are not 'real' in the sense that most of us have no idea who the other person truly is on the other side of that screen. I do not know truly how much you may or may not have suffered nor can you know about how much I may or may not have suffered either. This isn't real time communication either where I can show that I am or am not listening to you or you to me.
Would you not agree that if dismissiveness and one set of assumptions are poor communication that absolutist arbitration of what is and is not ok for all and another set of assumptions are equally poor communication even if the OP or any poster here is rightly hurt or pissed?