On the obligation to educate the uninformed.

[draegonhawke]

There's something I see a lot in discussion of race, of gender, of any sort of marginalized group, really - someone who isn't part of that group will come up to someone who is and say "Wow, I didn't know. Could you tell me more?" And the person they're asking will say "No

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[rachel_swirsky]

additionally (because two once sentence comments on one post is not enough), you are *very* good at stating 101 stuff in simple, easy-to-understand language.

[draegonhawke]

Heh. Thankye. Possibly part of it is because I'm in the process of learning so much of it, myself. (How, precisely, an asexual agendered biracial kid in Nebraska manages to wind up with this much privilege is something I'm still in the process of figuring out. Possibly I just had a very sheltered life, and was cushioned from a few harsh realities by honors programs, general obliviousness and the Unitarian Universalist church.)

[rachel_swirsky]

Class privilege (at least one of your parents was a prof, yes?) seems to do a lot of work in this sort of thing. Not for all people or all situations of course, but...

[draegonhawke]

Yeah. Dad was a professor of English at UNL.

[thiefofvoices]

I second this. You said all of this way better than I ever could have.

[draegonhawke]

Heh. ^^ Dankedanke.