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Clearly the cellar is not a safe and receptive place for me to voice my progressive and anti-oppressive views,
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You can't be serious.
Unless there have been some unpublished threats we don't know about, I can't find anything in this thread that constitutes a danger to you.
Your ideas are a different story, they are "under attack", but they should be strong enough to withstand a challenge. If not, they deserve to be taken down.
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and so i might not be around much for a while, but if you or any other dwellars want to discuss, earnestly and un-antagonistically or defensively,
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What do you mean by this? No disagreement? I've been un-antagonistic and un-defensive in my discourse with you, so let's continue, hm?
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how I think generations of oppressive narratives and positions have hurt our nation, how I can't feel comfortable identifying as someone who is "patriotic" in supporting the country I want to serve as a career (as someone who plans to serve in the state dep't as an FSO),
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totally legit.
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why I believe the "I'll say what I want, I know better than oppressed people how to fix oppression, your political-correctness-run-amok-worldview-makes-things-worse" culture only perpetuates problems...
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... I'll say this as plainly as I can. This is what you are doing. You say it's what others are doing and by so doing perpetuate the problem. And you're equally guilty. You've been open about some of the struggles you've faced and how they've informed and equipped you to overcome your difficulties. But others here, *every* other person here, has faced similar challenges, or oppression, or tragedy, or disadvantages or all of the above, that shapes their responses too. No one has a monopoly on being oppressed. You know your story better than anyone, but you don't know all stories better. Your arguments lose strength when you display hypocrisy and contradiction.
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If you or any other dwellar really wants to know why I find that argument hurtful to all marginalized Americans, and wants to understand why I am very passionate about my slightly-revolutionary, controversial "core beliefs" about privilege and oppression, please PM me for a contact link.
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Consider this your Public Message. I'm all ears.
Ali, xoB, for the record, this post has been incubating for a couple days.