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Someone saying that they feel disenfranchised because their race, a prominent race in the industry, was excluded from a marketing message specifically trying to make everyone feel welcome and included isn't fighting against anything. They're expressing a feeling. You're dismissing and rejecting their feelings. You go a step further by saying that the person is selfish, privileged, and needs own up to all the atrocities their race has ever committed.


White people weren't excluded from the marketing campaign. There was a white man and a white woman there, which at 10% of the worlds population meant that they were over represented. Plenty of races were not represented at all. The guy wasn't upset about not being represented, he was upset that other races were also included so prominently, or in some cases were more prominent.

Did you also miss the part where he said that his race deserved to be the prominent race because it is genetically superior? Is it okay to express feelings like that?

I feel sick.




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