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David Zugman's avatar

We are all bearing the contradiction that we must always consider race, but also must never consider it. Puts us in a state of psychological contradiction and results in weird virtue signaling.

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Nelly V's avatar

Well written!

I remember living in red America just before the Iraq war and being ostracized or loudly mocked because I was French. I privately supported my government, with which I usually disagreed, in opposing the US march to war at the UN asking the same questions listed here. I did not talk about it openly. Nonetheless an assumption was made about me and it was too loud to fight. To this day I do not know if they ultimately recognized their misconception as I have since moved out of there. Cowardly!

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