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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:21:39 JST Aral Balkan

   Everyone’s for social justice until it threatens their own privilege.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:37:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Huubje

     @Huubje Oh, that’s just perfect; thanks for sharing :)

   • Huubje (huubje@ieji.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:37:08 JST Huubje

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     @aral
     Love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal
     https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3cdqQ2BdgOA

   • Koen Hufkens, PhD (koen_hufkens@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:43:34 JST Koen Hufkens, PhD

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     @aral Isn't that the false dichotomy that giving people additional rights doesn't take yours away?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 18:43:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Koen Hufkens, PhD

     @koen_hufkens Oh, but it does sometimes (or always if you consider the loss to be your exclusive access to those rights) and that’s ok, because you shouldn’t have had that exclusive access or those additional rights to begin with. We don’t have to coddle folks with privilege. If, for example, we build a system incompatible with billionaires, billionaires will lose things (billions of things, to be exact). And that’s ok. They never should have had them to begin with.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 19:34:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • weilawei

     @weilawei Very much agree :) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111051738097034988

   • weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jan-2024 19:34:05 JST weilawei

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     @aral The proper use of privilege is to fix the system that gave it to you so humanity as a whole doesn't need to suffer that again.