>So, look, here's the problem: that never happened
Yes it did. You quoted the very sentence. Twice. Now try parsing it.
>From that you read...
Because that is what it says. Here, let me break it down.
"Of course": of course
a white male programmer": a person who fits in the categories "white" and "programmer"
"wouldn't see an issue with that" can't see sexism or code of conduct violations.
The category: white male programmers. The attribute: blind to sexism and code of conduct violations. Necessarily.
>The post you responded to was a bit of a backpedaling from that utterly inoffensive statement.
That statement is orders of magnitude more offensive than making a joke about a dongle. Classifying an entire sex and race and telling them (or others) what they see is the road to atrocity. And it wasn't a backpedal, it was a rationalization/justification referring directly to the OP (>I don't accuse, or segregate, or treat the other party as lesser.).
>That sentiment or anything like it exists nowhere in anything that was said
That sentiment is the _basis_ for what was said. OP felt (s)he had superior knowledge and insight to white males and used this position to explain to them how they perceive the world.
I'm not even going to comment on your trivialization of mental health issues. Nice one!
>but as a white male I find nothing the least bit challenging in that
I'm not sure what to tell you, except that, like the post you replied to said, "Of course [you] would think that" is a common rhetorical device in idiomatic English that in this context really, really does not mean what you seem to want it to mean. Your parent clearly does not think nor did express any statement of the form "all X are Y", and took great pains to make that, and their actual point, clear, and your "parsing" of that one sentence to make it into something close is exactly what the damn blog post is about.
I'm sorry that you feel I've trivialized mental health issues, but I will say that I've known psychotic people IRL, and again, I used the phrase "slightly psychotic" quite deliberately.
Yes it did. You quoted the very sentence. Twice. Now try parsing it.
>From that you read...
Because that is what it says. Here, let me break it down.
"Of course": of course
a white male programmer": a person who fits in the categories "white" and "programmer"
"wouldn't see an issue with that" can't see sexism or code of conduct violations.
The category: white male programmers. The attribute: blind to sexism and code of conduct violations. Necessarily.
>The post you responded to was a bit of a backpedaling from that utterly inoffensive statement.
That statement is orders of magnitude more offensive than making a joke about a dongle. Classifying an entire sex and race and telling them (or others) what they see is the road to atrocity. And it wasn't a backpedal, it was a rationalization/justification referring directly to the OP (>I don't accuse, or segregate, or treat the other party as lesser.).
>That sentiment or anything like it exists nowhere in anything that was said
That sentiment is the _basis_ for what was said. OP felt (s)he had superior knowledge and insight to white males and used this position to explain to them how they perceive the world.
I'm not even going to comment on your trivialization of mental health issues. Nice one!
>but as a white male I find nothing the least bit challenging in that
Okay then, enjoy your life. Stay positive!