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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Data's data.
I also have to consider, I grew up with Asian and Indian neighbors, in an isolated area where most of the original homeowners were successful Jews and Italians (the local Temple was a solid drive and a three iron away). My high school was also private and filled with Indian, Asian, and Middle Eastern kids.
I think my upbringing may have led me to downplay the prevalence of bigotry. Quite literally, we just never thought about it.
And I've been as oblivious about it since. I could see why this would frustrate people who've spent their entire lives dealing with it. Ultimately, however, I will probably always revert to the thinking I've followed on it from the start: Race/Sexual Persuasion/Ethnicity should be immaterial among enlightened people, and the ultimate fix for bigotry - which sadly won't occur until long after we're all dead - is people ignoring those categories and mixing adequately enough that they become something hardly recognizable. (And get rid of religion, which causes most ethnic bigotry.)
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This is the Color Blindness defense that is so often employed to avoid any actual introspection. It's like saying, "Everyone should be treated like the rich. If we start treating everyone like they're rich, things will be better because the ultimate fix for poverty -- which sadly won't occur until long after we're all dead -- is no one being poor." You cannot ignore the reality of people's actual existence and just act like things aren't the way they are as an effort to effect change.
TM
