& probably vice versa though I don’t really understand the vice versa. I don’t know how to solve the general bitterness problem. Seems hard
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But if I were part of a group that had to fight an oppressive majority for as long as some minorities have here,
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I could see myself just out of instinct continuing to fight over certain things even when it might not exactly be optimal to do so.
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Have you ever had an experience, and then a third-party person who wasn't there comes back and tells you what happened?
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And then you're like... no no, actually what happened was xyz, not abc, I know 'cause I was there.
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But for whatever reason that other friend is like, more popular than you or whatever and all of a sudden everybody believes their version...
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Of what happened instead of yours, even though you were actually there and it actually involved you?
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Maybe it was even something important to you, a key part of how you understand your life, but now someone else's version of it is the truth.
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And all your friends LOVE telling the story at parties and it always gets a laugh and you even laugh along but you still know it's wrong?
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How would you feel about that? Bad? That's the feeling we're fighting against when we talk about this kind of cultural appropriation.
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It's not just a nerve that was hit a long time ago and is still tingling or whatever. It's a real thing.
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