This is one of the many bullshit excuses I get for why it's okay for no one here to break with tradition and somehow find some way to reach out to me and help me solve this. It amounts to a silencing technique: We don't really want to know what poor people or women or whatever think.

No opinions allowed except those of "the right kind of people" supported in "the right way" which pretty much guarantees that the status quo will be reinforced.