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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by prepend on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:24PM (#35891317)
My point is that likely GP and others are aware of these concerns and make their decision knowing the consequences, not that they are oblivious due to privilege.

I was trying to communicate that we should assume best intentions and not that someone is stupid and “privileged.” I put privileged in quotes not because it doesn’t exist, it does, but assuming someone’s privilege is not a good idea and few know others well enough to do so.

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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by slg on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:13PM (#35892070)
>My point is that likely GP and others are aware of these concerns

I don't think OP was aware. They did not say that letting politics influence where they live was a bad decision for them personally. They said they believed it was a bad decision. There was no qualifier. They were stating it universally.

They are also elsewhere in this thread not understanding why a trans person would have trouble making friends with conservative people. I don't think this person deserves the benefit of the doubt you are giving them.

I also didn't call OP "stupid" and "privileged" is not an insult.

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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by readwriterick on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:45PM (#35896256)
"Privileged" is an insult (in popular culture) and if you claim otherwise you are being disingenuous or you are very badly out of touch. (Or you're saying "well I didn't mean it to be an insult" and yeah sure you're very smart.)
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