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briandmyers · 3920 days ago · link · · parent · post: Willful Ignorance - On the Perception of Race From Someone Too White to Be Black and Too Black to Be White
Whenever people are uncomfortable, you can almost always find the cognitive dissonance. It's easier and nicer to think "he's overreacting, it's not that bad", instead of "society is more racist than I am comfortable with". We don't even know we do it sometimes. It might be less willful ignorance than you suppose. But I probably just think that, to make myself feel better ;-)