When did pointing out privilege become a personal attack?

[Phillip McCleod]

6. when everyone feels like they're in prison..

..and have suffered, they become focused on their own suffering and the zero-sum mentality sets in.

but privilege and discrimination as you sooooo rightly point is intersectional. alice might be discriminated against at work for being a woman between 9-5, discriminated against for being black while she looks for another job between 5-7, treated like shit at home by a parent or loved one for being a lesbian between 7-9, and denied entry at a nightclub for being too poor between 9 and midnight.

or it might all come at poor alice at once.

alice isn't a far out example. alice is lots of americans and those were just a handful of the factors that can interplay. what if she was a muslim too? or had poor English language skills in Dallas? or was pregnant? or was paralyzed from the waste down?

no matter our own suffering we can't dismiss the suffering of others. we should let it make us care even more about correcting *all* those injustices, addressing each on necessary terms.