Anyway that piece definitely assumed its audience was white and college educated as a default.

something something universally accepting spaces are only actually inclusive of oppressors or whatever

Looking directly 👁️👄👁️ at all the archy bros I've been in school with who doggedly evaded learning anything about Indigenous land rights.

for 15 seconds this op-ed was about 20% down the road to a good point

This is such a fundamentally goofy undertaking. Sure, let's build a bridge between me, a trans, and someone who thinks I should have my junked checked at the door before I can piss. Like?? There is no such thing "dialogue" between a person who simply exists and another person that hates them for it.

Aw man I thought they made that up for If Books Could Kill

pot + kettle, dude

Even in very "liberal" fields (like anth), you find so many people were weird pockets of conservativism built into their worldviews. This is how a friend ended up in a class with a cultural anth prof who read the f slur as written in an article. because free speech I guess.