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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8526799">This is a much larger topic, but I think people very much overestimate how much of an idea they can get about a person's experience with these things from the positions they take on a gaming forum, even when it veers into the political. I am often very surprised just how off my assumptions are about a person's background, experience with suffering, experience with racism, experience with poverty, is based on posting style a lone. I have also learned the hard way, when you think are absolutely right about a thing, it is very easy to veer into being judgmental and cruel (there are times I've called people racist for example, when it became clear to me that is actually not what was going on, and I was ashamed to have used that to justify my own bad behavior towards another person-----and but the same token, there are times when I've disagreed with posters like yourself about these issues, and used my own sense of righteous indignation to justify similar behavior......and both these things often stem from an over-confidence in one's own certainty). In terms of wages, sure there are always going to be people who think they have it tough, who don't know what tough is. But I really don't find that people taking the positions I am taking, often align with being financially well off (I find in the US, it is the opposite---people taking your position are usually more likely to be financially secure and college educated, often with advanced degrees). But that is just an impression, based on my narrow experience. I shouldn't make assumptions about you for example, because I don't know you. I shouldn't make assumptions about other posters, because I don't know them. And I don't want people to make assumptions about me on this front either (I won't go into it, but I can say I am not well off at all and I know what it is like to struggle and have significant disadvantages).</blockquote>

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