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minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoBeing a victim doesn’t excuse bigotry. You can empathize with a person without excusing bad behaviors. I don’t want to be subjected to hate and vitriol because of the actions of another person in an event that I wasn’t involved in… do you? Bigotry, in all forms, is bad. Even if the bigoted person thinks they have a good excuse (they always do).
minus-squaredrinkwaterkin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoI remember one of my exes repeated a statistic a lot, “one in three women are raped at least once in their life.” I don’t think you’re appreciating the challenge of these circumstances when “not all men” might literally be the exception, not the rule.
Being a victim doesn’t excuse bigotry. You can empathize with a person without excusing bad behaviors.
I don’t want to be subjected to hate and vitriol because of the actions of another person in an event that I wasn’t involved in… do you?
Bigotry, in all forms, is bad. Even if the bigoted person thinks they have a good excuse (they always do).
I remember one of my exes repeated a statistic a lot, “one in three women are raped at least once in their life.”
I don’t think you’re appreciating the challenge of these circumstances when “not all men” might literally be the exception, not the rule.