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by seanccox 4413 days ago
It's a personal account and you, of course, are under no compunction to consider it. So why comment? I mean, you didn't even read the article far enough to comprehend its context or understand what the author meant by using that word, or how it extends, by analogy, to her experience as a white woman.

It is your privilege that you can reject the article in its entirety after the first sentence, because you are not living any of the oppressive experiences described therein. I just don't see how doing so is less "shockingly biased" than the word itself. It seems like a sort of tu quoque fallacy to avoid engaging either the text or the arguments it might contain.