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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by alfromspace on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:01PM (#20716508)
What if they disagree with your premises? I'd rather be your enemy than ally if all I can do is nod my head like an idiot puppet at all of the terribly misinformed social justice rhetoric you're throwing at me.
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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by jayventura on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:17PM (#20716688)
You have the right and freedom to disagree.

But at least ask yourself why you disagree and why you think someone is wrong about their oppression. And then apply that lens of thinking to another era, say Jim Crow, and how your lens of thinking can affect others.

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Re:Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Bl... by commandlinefan on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:37PM (#20718183)
Ironically, his line of thinking excludes everybody _except_ the people who disagree with you from joining the conversation.
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