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@spiderrobotpig debating somebody right now over this. Basic attitude: "hey if you don't like something, block it. Troll control is an imposition on freedom".
Asked him if he was white cishet guy: "Um yea but so what?"
I always hit an impasse here—how do you explain harassment to someone who doesn't experience it and doesn't care about people who do?
(I remember someone said this re: defending the ACA:) "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people.")
@csilverman Same guy probably whines occasionally about how hard white cishet guys have it these days "because thry are the only gtoup it's okay to discrimjnste against"......
@ElectricMink Eh—I do see contempt directed at whites. I don't like it. Addressing racism isn't about gratuitously shitting on people—it's about *not* gratuitously shitting on anyone, no matter how privileged they are/aren't.
It also means recognizing that one person's right to not be gratuitously shit on comes before someone else's desire to gratuitously shit on them. If you haven't been shit on, you might not know how much of a problem it is, or identify with ppl who have been.