re: #505 wrenchwench

If that attitude was being enforced with any consequences, you might be right. As it is, a suggestion to listen to someone with a different perspective could be a good thing, especially if you’re operating on the assumption that other people want to be treated the same way you want to be treated.

If someone screams >anything at you, the conversation is over. Doesn’t matter who holds the ‘privilege’ there.

Listening is one thing, but if the other person is primarily using the charge of ‘privilege’ as a weapon, then the situation changes. They don’t have to scream to do that, and I admit that it is not always straightforward determining if that is what is going on. Like most social rules, it takes a fair bit of good judgement to distinguish between just anger and self-serving rhetoric.