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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI find that when I treat people as individuals
as not as members of one classification or another, that it makes the world a much simpler place.
Just my 2 cents...
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I find that when I treat people as individuals (Original Post)
CFLDem
May 2014
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Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)1. ^^winner^^
boston bean
(36,221 posts)2. For you, because you ignore the plights of others.
Ignorance is bliss as they say.
Silent3
(15,204 posts)3. Sure that sounds reasonable, but could be stealth MRA proganda...
...so I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to denounce you as a misogynist, rail about how you "just don't get it", and tell you to shut up if you can't get with the program.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)4. That's a good strategy for dealing with individuals; it is less good when dealing with groups
or political issues or the social environment we live in.
Bryant
scruboak
(34 posts)5. Sometimes that is an excuse
for members of one group to ignore what other members of that group are doing, rather than calling them out on it.
For example, when some Catholic priests ignore rampant sexual abuse among their ranks because they personally didn't do it, no one would say, "Well, then, that's okay." Sometimes your silence makes you guilty.