So, sum: if even possible to speak of larger "geek community", or if we're just speaking of commonalities among smaller communities:
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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happen to geeks and that happen to marginalized people.
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right. so we tell the geek that when he was on that floor with the foot on his back, it didn't matter. and declare victory.
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It's not a competition! Recognizing differences does not raise or lower anyone's importance.
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i mean, that would be lovely, but the geek is not *asked to recognize differences*, he is publicly mocked, derided and shamed
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he is told that by using the wrong words for his experience he is appropriating the experience of people who actually suffered
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