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John Colagioia (he/him)

There "are bigger problems" to you. When someone expresses their pain, the useful response isn't to talk about hypothetical worse problems and defend the people causing the pain. It's 2021; people have voiced how language hurts them, and most of it's backed by research, so stop doing it and apologize when you do.

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Varun Subramanian

I am not defending anyone here. All I am saying is there will always be problems and you can’t keep letting yourself down or get hurt by everything what one or two individuals say.
You cannot grow as a society if you keep fighting and voicing concerns over every single issue. You can’t just keep branching out problems rather than solve the root cause.

In 2022, it will be something else and this will be shelved. That’s how the current trend is and again no one is defended here. It is just my opinion.

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John Colagioia (he/him)

So, when people tell you and research shows that you--you, specifically, since you are defending this behavior by saying that it's fine--that something is hurting them, you think "progress" lies in ignoring the harm. Gotcha. That's everything that I need to know about you.

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Varun Subramanian

Now what you did there judging me is “Offending” me. Are you going to apologise or are you going to ignore? Let us see what kind of a person you are now.

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John Colagioia (he/him)

I'm describing your behavior. I'm now judging you for trying to defend your behavior instead of examining it. It's 2021; I've stopped caring what misogynists think about me.

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Varun Subramanian

The fact that you don’t want to apologise shows that you are arguing for the sake of it and you are contradicting what you had said earlier.

I don’t want to waste my time with someone who is not constructive enough. Take care.