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In reply to the discussion: White people (especially men...especially straight) seem to have lived in a bubble all their lives [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)Every single part of our national culture, the media and messages that have surrounded me since the day I was born, have been built with the assumption that people like me are the center point, and that everyone else is defined by how they differ from me, how they exist in relation to me.
Given that, I contend that it's basically impossible for me to have grown up without developing inbuilt assumptions and petty bigotries even while trying to be a decent liberal. This last year it seems there's been a sea change in how the world around me works, and all I can hope to do, and what I hope I've done, is learn and change with it.
Despite the pushback your post will get, please know that the PoC that have expressed themselves with such passion and conviction on DU have made some of us think and reflect and engage in what I hope is useful self-examination.