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All of this is exactly what I take issue with. You seem to make several assumptions, chiefly that I need a lecture about privilege. I don't. Just because something can be more easily explained or understood doesn't make it okay. I have been the target of racial and sexist hatred as a white male. The power imbalance explains it but makes it 0% less shitty. I make no excuses for those people who sought to make me feel awful and I think any defense or letting them off the hook is hurting society. This way of thinking teaches us that shitty misguided attempts at retaliation for mega shitty societal issues are okay as long as they can be understood.
I just read your comments multiple times and all I can come away with is that you think I don't understand power imbalances which is completely wrong. Make whatever assumptions you want, but preaching something I already get... Is proving my point perfectly. The up and votes in this thread prove it further.
People just cannot seem to grasp that I can say "ya know what that's shitty and shouldn't be excused" without piles of other implied baggage which isn't there. I don't want or need to defend myself, I wanted to remind someone talking about needing to browbeat themselves for things they didn't do that it's really of no value to do that and further, that it's actually harmful to uphold this unspoken belief that two wrongs make a right.