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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 26 Jan 2014

    A Western liberal telling an ex-Muslim atheist they’re racist/Islamophobic is like a man telling a feminist woman she’s sexist/a misandrist.

    2:38 AM - 26 Jan 2014
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      2. 𝙾𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗  🇪🇺‏ @ojmason 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral I take it you don't use Western liberal as a term of endearment. How do you define them? What wd you call W atheist social democrats?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 26 Jan 2014
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        @ojmason @ojmason (Take 2) I’m sure people would call me a Western liberal. That doesn’t mean I agree with every popularly-ascribed view :)

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      4. 𝙾𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗  🇪🇺‏ @ojmason 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral I was wondering what was going on in Poole! ;) Tricky to find precise labels for a large set of differentiated views and principles.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 26 Jan 2014
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        @ojmason Yep, sure is :) And yeah, I’m just big in Poole for some reason (thank you autocorrect) :)

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      2. Sam Johnston‏ @samj 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral you and I need to drink one of these days

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 26 Jan 2014
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        @samj Anytime, Sam :)

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      2. LTN‏ @latteine 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral it would be more precise to say 'group sexual abuse victim, turned extreme feminist woman' I guess.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 26 Jan 2014
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        @latteine Alas, 140 characters.

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      4. LTN‏ @latteine 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral yeah keep forgetting about that :P

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      1. Mike Lemur‏ @bmf 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral See also the taste in my back teeth when wealthy white women act like having a penis protects you from discrimination.

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      1. Mike Lemur‏ @bmf 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral Because man, once we start wielding "OPP" we're just walking around in a forest of pointing fingers, aren't we?

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      1. Mike Lemur‏ @bmf 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral I'm less concerned with colliding privileges as I am with barriers to communication and mutual understanding.

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      1. Nuno Job‏ @dscape 26 Jan 2014
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        @aral quite frankly a bunch of stereotyping just leads to more of these episodes. People not stereotypes.

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