@Monstercloud: Look, if you in any way considered yourself a decent human being you'd realize that respective minorities have their lives pretty damn hard enough without you enabling the people that attack them on a regular basis.

@nacatak: That's just it though. As a white, male, straight candian university student your worst situation of sitting in a minority population is (and I mean, your worst case) is being Canadian.

@Monstercloud:

Every single time we have one of these articles we have a regular peanut gallery of just exactly why gaming is considered such a hostile environment to anyone who isn't white, male, and heterosexual.

@Jonn: And I am saying that if you want to go on a witch hunt of "well this person espouses more racial animus!" then you're going to have an impossible task that is both unproveable and unproductive. I quite literally have zero interest in trying to to discern WHO IS THE BIGGER RACIST?!

@Jonn: Please. If you'd like to discuss some other issue, that's all fine and dandy. But privelege is about power relationships. Not on a small-time level but on a larger sociological issue. If you want to discuss racism as a function of racial animus then it is not a discussion I'm interested in having with you. Or…

@Damios: I don't think anyone truly thinks that anyone always thinks that words are exclusively targetted towards them ( and as I said it, I immediately thought, "I'm sure there's somebody..."), ultimately the issue always comes down to the 'shotgun effect' of words. Words like the n-word and the like - even when not…

@Liam Potter: 'Humanity' in abstract. As in sense of self, conception of the world, that sort of thing.

@Damios: I don't think that's fair. There's a clear structural bias that favors the conservatism of words in both connontation and denotation and that is this: language is necessarily communal. You just can't wake up one morning and say to yourself "Today, the word 'toast' will now mean 'dog'". While hypothetically…

@Jonn: Privelege is not about opinions.

@Damios: Ah, but there's the trick. Words tend conservative in how quickly they pick up new meanings. Regarding language itself, very rarely does a word actually pick up a new meaning that holds greater sway than its original definition. Much more frequently words are retired to make way for new words.

@Orin: You can try and do better.

@Orin: No, the damned problem with this country is that you cannot discuss racial privelege without people defensively retreating to the line of "WELL I'M NOT GEORGE WALLACE"

@spidermann: I'm going to respond to this as a writer.

@blackcat7k: I think you are correct in your appraisal however this joke is not doing what you accuse it of doing.

@mgallagher713: There's no evidence the security theater is effective. The point is it is a sham and a farce, a wholly unecessary, ineffective farce that takes a real threat as an excuse to perform meaningless, unecessary, and highly invasive strikes into privacy.

@Elizabth_Bennet: COTD, even if it ain't the site's, it's mine.

@annie.lincoln16: I have things to say with regards to this but it would be off-topic. If you'd like to have a discussion regarding fiscal policy, send me a PM.