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red sox 777 posted...

If you honestly can't see things from this perspective, I think you are very out of touch with a large segment of America. And that's not their fault.

If they jump immediately into that slippery slope you just provided, then yes, that is their fault and speaks to a persecution complex.

To jump to a slightly different, but not entirely unrelated topic, let's take race. When people talk about white privilege or "white people have done [negative thing]" and such. I can understand the knee-jerk reaction of thinking/saying, "Wait a second! I don't think/believe/do [thing]! That's wrong!" I can absolutely understand how someone could take such statements and immediately personalize it and view it as a personal attack on them. I can get that.

But I don't think it should be too much to ask to look past that kind of initial reaction and realize the one making it about you is you. And to look at the statement as it was actually presented and analyze/think about it/discuss it instead of entrenching into some siege mentality forever.

To have that initial reaction, sure, I can understand that. I can relate to it even because it can be hard sometimes to not try and defend yourself when you feel you're being lumped into a group and criticized or blamed when you feel that doesn't reflect you as an individual.

But if you elect to stay there and have that reaction cease being a reaction and instead become a mentality? Nope. Sorry. That is on you. I can understand intellectually how you got there but that doesn't mean I think it's right or rational.
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