One thing I’ve learned about from the discussion in this community since I joined it is privilege. I never thought about it much, but the idea that I’m a stereoypical white middle aged guy from a (relatively) middle class background gives me a lot of “invisible knapsack” advantages.
Thanks to my participation here, I do pause more to think about privilege, and how it colors our interactions with the world and each other, much more often. So I now react to this:
(yes, that’s the Bill Budge.)
With this:
So over and beyond the Happy Mutant Fun I expected (and got! always a huge fan of BB), I … learned some stuff. That’s the best part of discussion, not yelling at people for having an opinion that’s different than yours, but listening to others with some semblance of empathy and improving your opinions.
(On the other hand, I also learned about concern trolling… not so much a fan of that.)
