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In reply to the discussion: I am an older white woman, a retired teacher. [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)who has my very legitimacy to participate on this board attacked on a regular basis. The same is true for the few people of color that remain on this site. If I posted a thread like this, it would be met with tremendous hostility. White senior citizens are the majority of posters on this board. You are not discriminated against on DU.
The way in which age can influence (though is certainly not determinative) political discussions is that anyone with any higher education in the liberal arts in the past quarter century would have some exposure to thinking about issues of race, class, and gender. That was not always the case. When people say discussing such issues is "divisive," they make clear they want no one who doesn't think like them to speak at all. The fact is American society is stratified, and race is a key axis of discrimination. I consider it a great shame that some are so hostile to the fact that even a tiny number of people of color speak discuss politics from their POV, a view that is framed by their life experiences, just as yours are.