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by sigmar 52 days ago
>It also quietly insinuates that only people with a certain minority lifestyle would care about privacy or that their privacy is somehow more important than others. It's not.

How exactly does their post insinuate that? this comment is the "I don't even see color" as applied to internet privacy (with a touch of "just don't rub it in our faces")

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The author is saying that it's worth noting that their privacy is more important because they personally identify as a group with the same mainstream popularity as Coca Cola and Football.

Nothing is being rubbed in anyone's face. The writer is just arrogant and self-centered.

"That includes gay people like me, who could hardly have admitted under our names to how we lived our lives for most of America’s history, as well as many other groups with minoritarian lifestyles and beliefs. It includes lots of people whose ideas were badly wrong for every one whose ideas were right — and I’m glad of it for all of them."

>The author is saying that it's worth noting that their privacy is more important because

again, where does it say that?