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In reply to the discussion: If African Americans face disparate treatment in America in general wouldn't that affect DU also? [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Do you have evidence that Du-ers make these assumptions that everyone is like them? I go with the editorial voice of the poster and context clues and rarely consider race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
For example, if your statement about DU-er assumptions were correct, then we wouldn't be having a conflict over the nominee or the behavior of BLM a few weeks ago. We would all be assuming other DU-ers were of the camp within which we consider ourselves. Since this behavior is not the case, it is a strong argument that DU-er assumptions do not follow the pattern you described.
There is a difference between qualifying one's experience and "parading the claim". I might state in a post that my parents raised me Catholic in order to qualify my statements. But if I promoted the unproven claim of expertise through the username Pedophile_priest_victim, and I used that handle to gain an undeserved advantage in order to browbeat others, attack Catholics in general, and whine about mistreatment when someone declines to bow down to the expertise I supposedly bring to the discussion, this would count as parading the claim.
We have some on this board who pretend expertise in certain areas, or having topical cultural experiences, but when you interact with those folks for a brief period of time, it becomes obvious they are persons playacting fake personas as a result of mental and emotional issues. Some are certainly high functioning sockpuppets, but they are still puppets and their posts are useless, or worse.