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by shimon 3189 days ago
I agree with most of this, but I'm confused about something. Are you saying that it's not OK to prioritize the needs/realities of certain groups of people?

I think there are situations where it's clearly not OK - for example, it's wrong for a government to limit access to voting based on race. But if you're, say, developing a new technology, then almost always it will be initially expensive and limited to wealthy users. Still, if we hadn't had an iPhone for rich folks in 2007, it's hard to imagine we'd be living in a world with decent $40 android smartphones in 2017.

Would you agree with that logic?

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I said nothing about the tech. I only suggested that a specific comment on this forum was a classist framing due to its sweeping claim that this would be for "all" clothing. That's it, and my comment that it was classist got several replies. I have done my best to engage those replies in good faith. That's it.

You seem to be reading in intent which is not there.