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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is talking to who?[/quote]

It's a bit confusing -- but here goes:

1.  at 10:00, I directed a post to a PP
2.  at 10:30, PP responded ("I am the person you quoted . . .")
3.  at 11:02, I acknowledged and thanked PP for her reply (which was so thoughtful that it made me question whether my own child's experience of being an "only" is more like PP's -- afterall, my child (like PP) is the one who's actually living the experience not me).

Then, some other poster swooped-in and started ranting about the post being offensive, ignorant, an example of the evils of DCUM, etc.

4. at 12:04, I told THAT poster "I wasn't talking to you . . ."

Admittedly, I could have told her/him to butt-out in a nicer way (like omitting the jump-off-a-bridge snarkiness) but, then again, I was annoyed that she/he -- as self-described white teacher -- was inserting him/herself into a side conversation on a thread about the experience of being the only or one of very few African American students in a class/school; so I had a WTF-moment when he/she also started ranting about the experience of being a white teacher in a classroom with only one white student.    
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