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deanSolecki  ·  3599 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is what white male privilege looks like

I think you'd have an argument if I was responding to a serious post with vitriol, but I wasn't; I was responding to race-baiting with the response that it deserves. I did at the very least lay out what made it so off the mark, but even that wasn't desperately in need of explanation.

If someone started a conversation by saying, "I don't get why the US needs affirmative action" or "do we really need protected classes in the US now that racism is more or less solved" I would treat it as a sincere dialogue. In this case I don't think any ceremony is called for, however.