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I think comments like this aren't viewed as being as discriminatory as they actually are because they can be easily dismissed as 'punching up'.. but in reality it's just punching.


Yeah, woke rhetoric is a preferred tool of a certain type of bully these days; it’s often used to reinforce privilege hierarchies (especially class based ones) rather than deconstruct them. Which is unfortunate because people start to tune it out, allowing genuine misconduct to fly under the radar.




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