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Comment by pavel_lishin | Hacker News Reader

You're right, most people don't understand just how lucky they are to be born that way. But those are exactly the people who should be standing up to this sort of bullshit, because they can do so with less risk.

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Throughout history, some risks when doing activism as a privileged member of society:

    - Oppressing one group while championing another
    - Oppressing the group you are championing
    - Acting in anger and alienating potential allies
    - Acting in anger and discrediting potential allies

I mostly meant personal risk; I'm less likely to be severely harmed, physically or financially.

That's patently not true. You're far more likely to be harmed than, say, women or Asians, though the latter are oppressed.

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