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Why Do Some People Believe They Have the Right to Dominate and Suppress Others ?

ALK2415

Structural
Sep 15, 2014
287
I was shocked seeing the BIG BANNER "you don't have the privilege to post here ?
your site is Great, just don't corrupted it with destructive ideas from British dinosaurs clubs
 
? I've only been here 20 years and have never seen a message like that. Perhaps there are private forums which are invite only, maybe, for posting? A screenshot would be good.
 
Perhaps you are talking about this one?

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It is using privilege in the computing sense read/write/delete privileges, not the woke social sense.
What it means is that the Group in question is read only until you join the Group, which may be by invite only.
 

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