@rcrackley, I hope you had a good night's sleep. I don't want to argue needlessly, but I need to push back on your rhetoric. > "privileged straight white rich Christian man" is clearly the group you are attacking in this post necause [sic] you see them as being "at the top of the food chain" I was pointing out the fact that this group (not separately) has the highest privilege in the US. Yes, it's a fact. I mentioned this group to admit Ben H's Jewish faith. I would adjust that group if I were talking about Indian society. I find it interesting that you perceive me pointing out privilege as an attack. It literally proves the adage "*when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression*." > To state the obvious, your attacks do not come close to representing all of the people you've chosen to tag. So #NotAllMen? > **repeated**, generalized, pejorative comments. Once again, I'm asking for citations for repeated. If I am pointing out how the dominant (not majority, although they are) class enjoys certain privileges that the historically oppressed classes don't is considered "pejorative," "attacking," or "denigration," you are proving the point I made in my original post. Also, I might point out that invoking the community guidelines right away instead of directly engaging with me was akin to how the dominant class uses the system to silence people who tend to speak up. I saved you the trouble of "calling the cops on me" by calling them myself.

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@jasonekratz Agree about “bloody revolution” being politics too, except I was hoping we wouldn’t get there. I don’t think Andreessen-Horowitz just got this, but in light of DHH’s proclamations, at least we got them to explicitly and openly state that politics is essential to getting your way. Now they may have been already doing that in the shadows via PACs.

Re: my quote about Ben, I still don’t understand your point. It’s clear I was talking about him being a privileged (legacy/social capital) rich white man. I didn’t even think about his religion but yes, I would put an American privileged straight white rich Christian man at the top of the food chain. But unless Ben tells us more about how he is being misrepresented in this world, you and I can only guess. I don’t know about his family history and his Wikipedia entry is scant on details.

Re: NY resolutions, of course, people should do what’s best for their mental health, but some of us don’t have that privilege or the choice so I was just pointing it out. If they feel guilty about me pointing that out, well, I can’t dictate how they should feel.

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@rcrackley, I hope you had a good night’s sleep. I don’t want to argue needlessly, but I need to push back on your rhetoric.

> “privileged straight white rich Christian man” is clearly the group you are attacking in this post necause [sic] you see them as being “at the top of the food chain”

I was pointing out the fact that this group (not separately) has the highest privilege in the US. Yes, it’s a fact. I mentioned this group to admit Ben H’s Jewish faith. I would adjust that group if I were talking about Indian society. I find it interesting that you perceive me pointing out privilege as an attack. It literally proves the adage “when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

> To state the obvious, your attacks do not come close to representing all of the people you’ve chosen to tag.

So #NotAllMen?

> repeated, generalized, pejorative comments.

Once again, I’m asking for citations for repeated. If I am pointing out how the dominant (not majority, although they are) class enjoys certain privileges that the historically oppressed classes don’t is considered “pejorative,” “attacking,” or “denigration,” you are proving the point I made in my original post.

Also, I might point out that invoking the community guidelines right away instead of directly engaging with me was akin to how the dominant class uses the system to silence people who tend to speak up. I saved you the trouble of “calling the cops on me” by calling them myself.

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