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So I had to listen again to one part of the TOTW discussion to make sure I heard correctly. About 43:35 Babylon is commenting on someone saying -all we can do is not oppress or be oppressed by strangers- and Babylon says "you can't know what is oppression to someone until you get to know them."
But then he goes on to talk about "affronts" and "hostility".

First, oppression is not merely an affront, nor is hostility oppression, & I would agree that different people have different criteria for what is considered an affront or what is hostile. I disagree though that it is hard not to oppress strangers.

Because, second, this seems to assume the stranger here has no voice & won't tell you to back off. Being in a position to oppress already implies a severe power imbalance and one hopes anarchists are never in such a position.
While there is no one size fits all approach to interacting with people, if one wants to get along nothing is better than, you know, listening to people.