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If I'm having a rational discussion with someone who disagrees with me then I'm automatically a troll? I tend to feel the trolls are the hordes of people calling for me to be executed or using nothing but insults instead of contributing meaningfully.

Everyone is free to their own worldview, shutting down discussions with "I hope you get raped in hell n*" isn't what I call a different worldview, it's what I call an arsehole.

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The ability to have a rational discussion comes from a place of [typically white, male] privilege, though. If you are being sexually harassed, racially discriminated against, or are otherwise in a psychologically unsafe position, you're not going to be in a position to "back up your opinion with facts" or "explain why you feel the way you do" or even listen to someone who calmly, rationally explains that "he's never made me feel uncomfortable", or "why didn't you report [being raped to the police] / [being discriminated against to HR]" or "I don't see race".

Well I'm just taking about Not being spammed with loads of shite instead of genuine prejudices as you point out. I have a hard time really understand the race thing as a Brit thigh. I think the colour thing is a predominantly American problem; while I'm sure there is discrimination in the UK Ive never witnessed black folks here getting a hard time any worse than anyone else and Ive lived loved and employed people of different colour to me most of my life and it's not something I've ever had to really even contemplate.

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