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In reply to the discussion: I am an older white woman, a retired teacher. [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:33 AM - Edit history (1)
They wouldn't single out a member to create more and insist, as you just did, that some human beings on this site are worth intrinsically less than others. The post that prompted this OP was about the future of the Democratic Party, whereas this one you applaud is Meta. What I object to is a blatantly false mischaracterization of the exchange in question and especially your assertion that some people are worth more than others, particularly when the person you have decided is worth less is a person of color, as you well know from my post.
You accuse others of stoking division simply for being who they are, from writing from the perspective of their experiences as a person of color, whereas you stoke division by insisting people who don't adhere to your orthodoxy of silence on issues or race and gender--issues that pertain to the majority of the country's population--are worthless because you have decided their concerns and hence their very worth as human beings are inconsequential. That is precisely what stokes division, and it is entirely deliberate. You seek to exclude anyone who has the audacity to be born different, to think differently, and to care about anyone the lives of people of the majority of people in this nation.
As for your "bait" comment, it can hardly be bating when she wasn't even addressing the person offended. Perhaps you should consider for a minute or two that other people have the right to express views, even if you don't like them. Since you find diversity of opinion so objectionable, use ignore. No one requires you to read posts you don't like, and I seriously doubt anyone will be heartbroken if you choose not to.