you know how sometimes people attempt to diminish the harm of their oppressive actions by reducing it to

hurt feelings?

it occurs to me that if we accept this as a valid claim

that oppression just hurts feelings

i’m still unclear as to why even that level of (according to them) inconsequential harm is okay

i understand that my feelings might seem trivial to you

seeing as how i’m not even human in your eyes

but given that i actually am a person

hurting my feelings still counts as harm

so, could you not?