First, context: here's a Storified version of my original Twitter thread on problematic behavior in geek communities, spec. tabletop.
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I think you need to reread. No one's saying bullied geeks don't have problems.
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I'm decrying the tendency of male geeks to be like, "I was bullied, so I understand what it's like to be a woman."
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Or white geeks to be like, "I was bullied, so I understand what it's like to be black."
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And to equate the experience of having been bullied as a kid to massive, structural, society-wide disadvantage.
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They are not the same. They both suck, but they're not the same and they don't affect people the same way.
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Moreover, female geeks, geeks of color, etc. experience BOTH. White male geeks don't.
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Yet they use the experience of being bullied to attempt to shut down conversations about other types of oppression.
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yeah, they do all those things and should knock it off
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maybe that's not what's meant, but if it takes a voxsplainer to understand that then that's not communication
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maybe that's fine, maybe progressive thought just needs to pursue its strategy of alienating its way to utopia harder
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i'm dubious
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No one's saying you don't have problems. They're saying they have problems too, different and often (not always) more difficult.
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right, except that's not what "you are not persecuted, these people are persecuted and not you" means to literally anyone
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Who says "You are not persecuted"? Is that literally being said most of the time, or is it what you're hearing?
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"In a way that marginalizes minority groups" is the key caveat here. There is a difference between the terrible things that
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