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by makomk 3321 days ago
There's this idea I've seen a lot lately amongst social justice activists that the correct boundaries are obvious and a simple matter of common decency, and that anyone who dares to question this by asking where they should be placed is simply obfuscating to justify bigotry and harassment. Of course, no two people's idea of where the obvious, clear boundaries are is actually the same, it's just they don't generally realise this because it's never discussed. Occasionally something happens that different members of the community do see differently and all hell breaks loose.
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Many times, the "asking questions" thing is done not in good faith, and that's why it's dismissed out of hand.