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In reply to the discussion: Let's talk about white privilege. [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)Every individual person is trying to get through their own day. There are 7+ billion people. Most won't die tomorrow, and there will still be more of us tomorrow than there are today. Our survival as a species motivates exactly 0 people to do anything. You might know a very small fraction of the people on the planet. In terms of day to day existence, most people aren't on anyone's radar, and so might as well not even exist anyway.
In terms of loans or job interviews, automate it the process or something. Where the name or sex isn't even recognized. In fact, get humans out of the loop altogether. With their opinions, beliefs, biases, need for food, need for sleep, etc. We're all really just a burden to the machine.
As a white person, I guess you could turn down any jobs that you get, figuring that you got it over someone else because you're white. But again, we get back to the day to day thing. Which also gets us back to the leaving humans in charge of anything thing. We're not going to get things all exactly equal, because we're all prisoners of history. We'll keep trying though, because we have that idea of fairness. Even though it exists nowhere but within the human imagination.
If you have it, why can't I have it? If they have it, why can't we have it? Which is then part of the way that we have all of the environmental issues that we do, which goes back to your survival as a species sentence. It's a whole complicated circle.