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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
(1) She made this Slateworthy by saying it's from members of her "own community." I think she's discovered, as many before her, that you don't have some greater right to dignity and respect within a self-defined community as without. It's wrong to be rude; it's not wronger to be rude to someone "in your community." It's that type of insider/outsider bullshit that leads to privilege, and excuses terrible things like FGM and hazing. There is no higher standard; the standard is the same.
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dissent. We have a community here and we have had insane rude people from time to time post horribly racist and sexist crap (not Me anyone?). We sort of banded together as a community and ran them off in a way that we wouldn't have had it occurred on "I love the SF Giants" or some other more general chat board, didn't we? I think she is naive not to realize the internet is just full of sick fucks willing to hit post on vile rants, but that it grew out of people she felt a kinship with is worthy of some additional, what, angst?
On the other hand, if I recall the story, she was bothered that someone in her "community" offered to have sex with her, so maybe she is far from in touch with her community.
