[Content Note: Privilege; silencing.]
"Civility is nothing more than a word that gets tossed around by pontificating assholes with zero actual experience in the oppression being discussed. Perhaps it isn't the oppressed groups that the word 'sensitive' should be leveled at. Maybe it's the ones who can’t bear to be told to shut up every once in a while."—Courtney Caldwell, in a great post about Penn Jillette being an asshole. Again.
Altogether now: Maybe it's not that we're being too sensitive; maybe it's that you're not being sensitive enough.
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