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Frank's avatar

I find your observations dead on. Too many people have been taught to arrogantly assert their place of the privilege of the oppressed or privilege of the credentialed. If you want to really solve a problem, you should seek to make others understand it, not just shut them down. It's certainly not easy. It takes humility on the listener's part to gain anything from a discussion of what others face and he knows nothing of, and it's not unreasonable to expect no such thing from a stranger. Still, it's the only route to true understanding, compassion, and eventually love.

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Matt Osborne's avatar

The soft bigotry of low expectations

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