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...are messed up. "Privilege Blindness" can be pretty toxic. Often the person with the privilege, first, lacks the self awareness
that what they're saying is hurtful because they're accustomed to not having to take that into account. Second, in my experience
they often lack the empathy to understand, at a fundamental level why they should accept the discomfort of knowing that they're
maybe kind of ignorant, rather than the alternative of (often) angrily asserting that they have a right to say what they want.
There is also something to be said for recognizing the difference between a microaggression and offhanded ignorance. The former
is a kind of privilege-of-bullying while that latter is often a dumb assumption, like stereotyping. It's when you start defending
the stereotyping, and dismissing the idea that its harmful, that microagressions occur.
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