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In reply to the discussion: why I suspect reaction to Hobby Lobby is somewhat hair-on-fire [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)that said something like, "Let me guess: You're not a woman."
There is also such a thing as willful ignorance, aka very convenient ignorance.
But, in fairness, he said, But what about Obama?, not what about me?
Then again, I never discounted the possibility that Obama was only an excuse.
This goes back to Trumad's question about whether one actually must have been poor at some point to understand the poor. My answer on that thread was yes. Though of course, you don't need to have been poor to care about poor people. That is a different issue.
Unless and until you have been a member of a group that has been discriminated against forever, or at least for centuries, I don't think you can get it. And those people should get that don't get it and STFU about mocking people who do get it.