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Your experience in an environment doesn't match someone else's experience in an environment you think is similar, so they are wrong and you are right?

Isn't this a core of the whole "woke" thing? Just because you have a nice experience doesn't mean everybody does and you shouldn't silence somebody not having a good time because you don't understand or have the same experience.


It's his "lived experience", so you should respect that.

I'm only half joking...


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Can you please be specific about what you read in my comment that makes you feel I'm a "d0uche"?


I am not ‘TLightful’, but I’m guessing it’s because you used the term “The Elect”, which only certain groups use. It’s one of the shibboleths of these modern times.


I've only ever seen the term written in an essay by a black author denouncing identity politics. What groups are you referring to?


The groups agreeing with that author, basically. The author is black, yes, but he also (according to Wikipedia) criticizes a number of left-wing and activist educators, the anti-racism movement, the concept of “microaggressions” and has denounced affirmative action based on race. So he is, understandably, not without controversy and detractors. Coming back to the term “The Elect”, it is a term adopted by him to make a political point. Therefore, only people who agree with that point will use the term, and people who disagree with that point (or with him, more broadly) will take affront to the term, as is the custom of these modern times.




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