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Okay, collective brain, help me out here.
There almost certainly already is a term for the retort in the form of:
"I don't think that's offensive, because it doesn't bother me, personally"
If not, perhaps we might coin such a term?
[Much of the effort thus far has been expended on trying to attribute the above retort to a mindset, rather than in characterizing the speech act on its own terms.]
Leaves out the positionality of such assertions, no?
The person committing such error might very well couch their reasoning in a naive solipsism, but even to assert such an ego-centered justification would implicate privilege, which stands structurally distinct from self.
That earns a chuckle.
Something tells me peers in Black and POC communities of discourse probably already have long had a less clunky term for this.
But we can keep playing swap the doll-heads with affixes until someone chimes in to tell us there's already an established turn-of-phrase in the wild.
