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Originally posted by Brian Kinney
Going by your logic, straight people shouldn't fight for gay rights?! And men shouldn't fight for gender equality?! Stupid logic.
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That's not at all what I said, actually.
But since you're obviously fishing for a reason to call me out without having any sense of comprehension skills: the ACTUAL logic that my comment suggests is that a straight person has no right to tell a gay person they can't be offended by something someone spouting off some anti-gay bs. Because straight people will never know what it feels like to be ostracized the way gay people are. Men will never know what it's like to be treated like you're automatically dumber because of what's between your legs. And a white person will never know what it feels like to be ostracized and be treated as less than because of the color of their skin.
Maybe I should've ammended my statement to "if you're white, you have no say in whether someone should be offended by this". But yes, you have no say in whether or not someone is allowed to be offended by something like this, especially if that someone is Native American and you're white. Fight for minority rights all you want, but don't go around trying to
invalidate another's experience if you've never had to go through that experience yourself.