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		tetrometal on Nov 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase Being "not racist" - AKA the unfairly-maligned philosophy of "color blindness" - is a perfectly reasonable aspiration. I shouldn't be any more concerned with skin color than hair color or eye color. I find the "anti-racist" philosophy of Kendi et al. to be misguided at best and divisive and racist at worst.

approxim8ion on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

> aspiration

That's pretty much what it is, and it cannot be realized in our lifetimes to say the least.

>I shouldn't be any more concerned with skin color than hair color or eye color.

And yet, there are others who will never get to hold those aspirations.

>divisive and racist at worst

Sad, yet unsurprising.

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