therufs comments on State of the Solstice 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: therufs 27 December 2014 09:08:19PM 2 points [-]

As a guideline, I don't think anyone should be generally jerky. And I am on board with mutual respect.

I probably should have said something more like "It isn't the responsibility of a marginalized community to abide by the expectations of its marginalizers in its own space." In particular, I see a need for spaces where people can express their own experiences without censorship or self-censorship or having to explain themselves.

By way of illustration: I used to be one of those people who ran around nontheist blogs insisting that anyone with complaints to level about Christians or Christianity be excruciatingly specific that not every Christians was a terrible person (or whatever). Then #NotAllMen happened, and lo, I was ashamed of myself, and stopped doing that.