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Re:This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University by venomsnake on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:27AM (#10655513)
> why can't we try to reform your aggressors in the first place?

Because someone somewhere defines something about another group of people as aggression and we can go "reforming" them with impunity. Take a wild guess what the ranges of something could be ...

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Re:This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University by coldpie on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:33AM (#10655564)
OP said,

> I grew up being called Gwailo, Gaijin, Auslander, and when I finally returned to the anglosphere in my early teens, I was still an outsider as I spoke with a weird accent and was by that point a through-and-through third culture kid. I got the crap bullied out of me

I don't see any value in accepting this behavior. What harm is there in trying to eliminate it?

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Re:This Is Not a Day Care. It’s a University by venomsnake on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:41AM (#10655620)
Because someone somewhere will use the framework and legal precedents you create to eliminate other behavior. Which may happen to be behavior you approve of.
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