re: #531 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You and me, friend. I grew up near NYC, as did my parents. Diversity was normal.

I grew up in segregated Maryland until I was seven, then not-very-diverse Central Michigan until I joined the Navy. (I did spend a year as an exchange student in 1976-77 in Brazil - financing that was an interesting problem for my mother, solved by winning the lottery).

The idea of “my culture is superior” just never took with me. I do understand the huge hurdles minorities, women, and immigrants have faced in the USA and why recognising those struggles are important for advancing compassion, even if I can never understand through personal experience those struggles myself.

I don’t get it. I am a middle-aged high school educated white straight male (the sort of person ofttimes viewed as most hidebound), but as far as I can ascertain I am pretty much open to anyone as long as they don’t try to impose some sort of restrictions on me. Perhaps I am defective?