Fine. You win. You’ve made a stranger on the internet sick of arguing with you, and thoroughly depressed me to boot. Go crow about your victory to BuzzFeed. They’ll give you a nice victorious title like “iO9 User Says Privilege Doesn’t Exist and This Person Had the Best Response.”

I never questioned whether those discrepancies existed, or whether or not they needed to be dealt with quickly. They do exist, and they do need to be dealt with. What I questioned was how the existence of those discrepancies justifies your treating me like an idiot and a willful participant in systemic racism for…

Did you even consider a word I just said?

“People like me”? You’ve never met me. You don’t know what I’m like, and yet because I expressed my disapproval of a term of which you approve, you are heaping assumptions on me. This is what I dislike about the term “privilege,” more than anything. It separates people into white and black, us and them, oppressors and…

Have you even read the rest of the comments in this thread?

Neither do the people who’ve used it to shut me down, apparently.

Or you could ask me, and others like me, why we hate that word so much. (Hint: It starts with “A” and ends with “buse.”) But sure, by all means, continue to shout down anyone who expresses displeasure with your viewpoint. That’ll fix America right up.

Funny, I don’t remember saying that.

I just hate the term “privilege,” no matter how it’s used. It’s like someone saying “Shut up. No matter the shit you’ve seen, you don’t know how good you’ve got it, so stop complaining.” Deepens divisions, in my opinion.

Disappointing clowns. They’re not scary, they’re not funny, they just leave you with a nagging sense of disappointment.

Could be. Though given Nick Spencer’s other work, I’m not hopeful. Political soapboxing isn’t a literary technique of which I am overly fond.

But surely he could have delivered that message another way. The message doesn’t matter at this point, in my opinion; Spencer’s move has alienated many fans, left others heartbroken, and made many Jewish readers feel as though he were spitting on the legacy of Cap’s original creators, who you probably know were…

Steve Rogers is a whole lot more than just saying Hail Hydra and taking orders from the Red Skull. He’s got plans. Straight-up evil plans.

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Nicely off-topic, veering seamlessly into the War on Straw.

Are you familiar with the term “insane troll logic”?

I’m still wondering why everyone is hung up on the gun and not the fact that, holy shit, this guy tweeted about killing his roommate and then went ahead and did it. If someone that unbalanced came after me, I wouldn't care if the only weapon they had was their bare hands, because they would find a way to end my life .…

And if the gun had been unavailable to him, he'd have used the knife.

Why? Some knives are large, some are small. “Large” is a descriptive term.

There's no way to know for sure. He could have been made just as brave by a large knife, or a lighted match and a canister of gasoline.