right, except that's not what "you are not persecuted, these people are persecuted and not you" means to literally anyone
i feel like you mean that and want it to be true, but it's not really how things go down
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I literally feel the exact same way about what you're saying. :)
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it seems bizarre to me to think of somebody *wanting* any of what i'm saying to be true
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I think it has to do with having an understanding of how culture works for whole groups as opposed to individual people?
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When we talk about this stuff, we don't specifically say, but to address large societal problems you have to make some groups.
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You literally can't describe what's happening otherwise. And realizing your relationship to your group and to other groups is
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what geek culture has a problem with. And it is *exhausting* to explain this to every single person b/c it's how people talk
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i mean, maybe "i've dismissed your experience as statistical error because sociology" has foundational communication issues
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It's not a dismissal! It saying that, in general, your group has experiences that are more difficult than this group. Not you.
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