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People act like it’s a perfectly normal question, but how normal is a question when you’re expecting the answer to be gruesome?
maybe questions don’t stem from interest in the other person so much as curiosity about the lives we might have led
The platform doesn’t allow people to post things like “All Muslims are terrorists,” because Muslims are a PC, a “protected category,” just like women, gay people, and, believe it or not, Mr. Stitic, heterosexuals. “All terrorists are Muslims,” on the other hand, is allowed, because terrorists are not a PC and besides, Muslim isn’t an offensive term.
How wonderful, I thought, how terrific that no one’s shouting at me. And yes, the posts I had to review contained the most heinous slurs sometimes—but at least those slurs weren’t directed at me.
