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Showing Original Post only (View all)White people (especially men...especially straight) seem to have lived in a bubble all their lives [View all]
and it seems as if the bubble is bursting.
You know, it's not as if POC and LGBT's never took offense at anything that was said and done...be they insults, epithets thrown, etc.
The problem always was that with white (men) in power, if any sort of complaint was made or action taken to protest anything that was said in utter disrespect, it could very well cost a POC or an LGBT their livelihood, their home, or even their life
So, yes, if a white man called his black housekeeper "gal," it wasn't as if that black housekeeper was going to say anything about it...in the old days.
Nowadays...yes, white people do have to be more respectful and considerate to "others" and frm the looks of several thread, y'all don't like it.
Granted, I do think that sometimes, the discussion of "microaggressions and "safe spaces" goes overboard on occasion, but it exists for a reason.