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Old 10-31-2019, 08:53 AM   #1
Undertoad
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Wull wait a minute

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if we heard some cis white dude in a bar
If you did, you would have totally assumed an individual's preference, gender, and race in order to openly declare prejudice against status across those things

But it would have been okay because you are doing it with oppressed-class comrades and can be seen as an ally
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Old 10-31-2019, 02:30 PM   #2
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But it would have been okay because you are doing it with oppressed-class comrades and can be seen as an ally
:::whoosh:::
We were laughing at our own implicit bias, in an imaginary scenario that we ourselves purposefully designed to call ourselves out.

But then I got very educated by your reverse double-whammy virtue signal, as one does.
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