• lurch (he/him)
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    694 months ago

    There’s also the “I have suffered it and therefore everyone else must suffer it as well”

      • @Klear
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        194 months ago

        Which actually means “I’ve pretended to suffer it and you are probably too”.

        • @[email protected]
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          194 months ago

          “I experienced racism. I was called a potato once and seriously, it wasn’t as bad as all the n* pretend it is. Get over it.”

        • Zagorath
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          34 months ago

          Sometimes it means “I did a thing in the past and don’t recognise the ways in which it has changed over time to become worse today than it was in my day”.