Echo Chamber

[Dynamic_fire]

[quote=““Sheeda Pistol””]
I think the question here is not whether GS awaam wants to listen to the opposing opinion or not.

E.g., I think that Biryaani is over-rated. A whole lot of people will disagree with me. That is fine. But If I keep harping the same thing and shoving the same “biryaani is over-rated” down other’s throat, thats when the problem arises. I need to respect that people prefer biryani over pulao and its ok.
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Biryanni is over-rated

[Captain_Obvious]

@""Mademoiselle""

This whole discussion that happened as a result of BLM has opened the eyes of many people, including mine. Including those with a white privilige. This has happened in part due to seeing the resistance of bigots and/or ignorants with the claim All Lives Matter. It has forced alot of people to change their (passive) stance, including those who claimed they ain’t racist because they don’t see colour. People have realized their white and brown privilige, they have accepted that they will probably never understand but will listen and educate themselves. And mostly, that being non-racist isn’t enough, we need to be anti-racist. It’s sad that this is still an issue in the 21st century when mankind has achieved so much, but even listening to a foolish point of view can teach us what not to do.

I’ve been hearing a lot about white privilege recently but I didn’t realize brown privilege was a thing.

[navzzz]

I think we are an inherently racist tribalist species - being wary of the strangers from over the hill and slow to trust and believing we were superior was a product of genetic and cultural evolution - ‘we’ being each group/tribe/civilisation etc. Lots of now history has happened, previously separate peoples are mixed in various proportions and variously advantaged or disadvantaged due to aformentioned history and the interacting cultures. If we don’t recognise this we can’t address it. Conscious and subconscious bias at play in all of us.