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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 8076954">Well, I wasn't really doing due diligence.  I already knew where I fall in this debate.  (Full disclosure: I read it because I know the author, and then thought, "Whoah!  This is SO relevant to that debate on Enworld...")But the real lesson here is that we don't know what we don't know.  When somebody says something like "OA is culturally offensive" and we don't immediately see why that is true, our reaction to the claim speaks volumes:Do we assume that since we don't see it, it's nonsense, and that therefore the person with the complaint is making stuff up?  And, furthermore, this is a perfect example of how people are making up non-existent problems just to grab attention and make things difficult for the rest of us?Or do we think, with humility, that perhaps there's background we don't know, and that before we start spouting off about what other people should be bothered by, we should ask a lot of questions?The interesting thing about the article I linked is that the author himself was totally unaware of this history for most of his life.  So if earlier in his life you asked him about OA he might have not thought it was a big deal, or even funny.  And it would be easy to use that younger version of him as evidence that Asian-Americans don't have to be offended by OA, and that therefore those who are offended are choosing to be, or making a mountain out of molehill.When what it would really show is that not all members of a demographic group are aware of the history and context of their own group.</blockquote>

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