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Originally Posted by Mathgod
This is not true when we're talking about marginalized & historically repressed groups. Reimer's decision did cause harm in this case. He was asked to simply wear a warm up jersey just like all of his teammates, but he decided to instead stick out like a sore thumb, and push back against something for which there is no reasonable justification for doing so. If he truly believed in inclusion for everyone, he would have wore the damn thing.
He's receiving harsh criticism, as he should. He made a bad choice and there are consequences for making such a choice. However, he's carrying on with his NHL career, and his life of extreme privilege, uninterrupted, so no he is not being "coerced" into making public statements.
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His privileged position allows him the room to make that decision. The problem is if we allow or encourage illiberal coercion, then we might think it's acceptable to do it to people with less privilege than Reimer.