Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses

• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh, race! I love race.

  Do you think it would be wrong for a black person to be a little bit nervous about wandering through some small, predominantly white town in middle America? 'Cause I’m gonna be real, I think that’s probably a valid fear.

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  • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s an excellent analogy. Zooming out from that scenario, should we welcome the notion of being afraid of being afraid of somebody based on their skin color, because there’s an inherent prejudice of them being dangerous? If so, should we be encouraging each other to vocalize these kinds of prejudices? And by extension, is it acceptable to draw sweeping conclusions about a group of people based on their generic traits?

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you’re black and presently in confederate country, maybe a little?

      The sweeping conclusion, by the way, is “it seems risky,” and I know you know that it is.

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