On Friday, January 22, 2016, Aahz Maruch via Callers <callers@lists.sharedweight.net>
wrote:
On Fri, Jan
22, 2016, Lindsay Morris via Callers wrote:
>
> I'm about to leave this list because I'm so appalled at the
amount of time
> spent on this discussion. So many smart, good people:
surely we all have
> something better to do?
Sounds like you're policing what other people choose to spend
their time
on. Oddly enough, I've seen comments like yours countless times
when the
subject lands on sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on. What I
find
especially interesting is that these types of comments are
louder when
it's a subject that isn't "generally recognized" to be hurtful.
In my
own lifetime, I've watched the discussion shift significantly
when the
subject is homophobia, and I currently watch appalled as
fatphobia is
still considered acceptable (with constant deprecatory comments
similar
to yours).
People whose lives are adversely affected by prejudice don't
have the
luxury of walking away from the discussion.
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