Admiral Beez
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I was reading this article https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-victimhood-culture/404794/ and came to this part...
“Hey, that talk looks pretty great,” a white student wrote to a Hispanic student, “but on the off chance you aren’t going or would rather play futbol instead the club team wants to go!!”
This provoked the recipient into an aggrieved reply. You can read it yourself in the article. As I was reading it, what I was asking the entire time was, why is the original author compelled to reply? It's some anonymous nobody, whose reply does not identify you, so there's no slander of reputation to be defended. Why are we compelled to reply? In this case it would have been much more powerful to not reply to the recipient at all, just leave them be, perhaps to wonder if you ever received their reply.
“Hey, that talk looks pretty great,” a white student wrote to a Hispanic student, “but on the off chance you aren’t going or would rather play futbol instead the club team wants to go!!”
This provoked the recipient into an aggrieved reply. You can read it yourself in the article. As I was reading it, what I was asking the entire time was, why is the original author compelled to reply? It's some anonymous nobody, whose reply does not identify you, so there's no slander of reputation to be defended. Why are we compelled to reply? In this case it would have been much more powerful to not reply to the recipient at all, just leave them be, perhaps to wonder if you ever received their reply.