On Friday, January 22, 2016, Aahz Maruch via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 22, 2016, Lindsay Morris via Callers
wrote:
 
 I'm about to leave this list because I'm so appalled at the amount of 
time
  spent on this discussion. So many smart, good
people: surely we all have
 something better to do? 
 Sounds like you're policing what other people choose to spend their time
 on.  Oddly enough, I've seen comments like yours countless times when the
 subject lands on sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on.  What I find
 especially interesting is that these types of comments are louder when
 it's a subject that isn't "generally recognized" to be hurtful.  In my
 own lifetime, I've watched the discussion shift significantly when the
 subject is homophobia, and I currently watch appalled as fatphobia is
 still considered acceptable (with constant deprecatory comments similar
 to yours).
 People whose lives are adversely affected by prejudice don't have the
 luxury of walking away from the discussion.
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