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I did mention both gender (guy) and economic (rich) status, clearly this race thing is very sensitive to you.

> I think it’s a dick move to violate that desire and subtly imply they don’t care about race issues.

There was no subtle implication, only your own fantasy.



Ah, the “you’re just a rich white guy” argument. Okay… How can I refute that? I would have responded the same way if you made a comment about climate change or any other political topic. It seems exhausting to think about your entire worldview through a political lens. I think my previous comment made a coherent argument that you can’t talk about all important things all the time. The fact that you’ve ignored it makes me think you don’t have a good retort.

Also I do think you’re a jerk. You’ve gone from subtly implying I’m racist to an overt accusation. That’s inappropriate imo.


Dude, take a break and come back to this in a day or two. I have not said that you're a rich white guy, and I have not said that you're a racist. If you want to talk about this with less emotion and with the assumption that I do listen to you and respect you, then we can do that.


I went back and re-read our thread and you’re right. I was too focused on race. When you implied I had an indifference to the struggle of others by calling me a “white and rich guy” you weren’t only calling me a racist, but sexist and classist as well.

If this is an incorrect interpretation of your words, I apologize. But maybe next time, you shouldn’t try to reduce people to their sex, class, and gender.


>But maybe next time, you shouldn’t try to reduce people to their sex, class, and gender.

Oh fuck off lmao.

You have absolutely no clue what I meant, if you had taken a step back instead of getting of this offended over a stranger on the internet we could have had a good conversation. You are willfully ignoring what I am saying, let me quote myself:

>I have not said that you're a rich white guy, and I have not said that you're a racist. If you want to talk about this with less emotion and with the assumption that I do listen to you and respect you, then we can do that.

You're still assuming I'm some internet troll, out to hurt your feelings, it's absolute insanity! This is why I asked you to take a day or two.

If you wanna talk in a day or two, then we can still do so, with the same assumptions I outlined in my self-quote.




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