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this mechanism also could underly apathies like privilege blindness--having the world seemingly match your expectations makes you unaware of how it can be skewe

this mechanism also could underly apathies like privilege blindness--having the world seemingly match your expectations makes you unaware of how it can be skewed in your favor and against others.

EGreg 7y ago
Most likely the gap happens because, on the one hand: 1. The privileged do not see enough actual evidence of the lack of privilege — for example all those little or big moments when someone who doesn’t have the privilege has a much harder time and on the other hand: 2. The people who seek to speak on behalf of the underprivileged group as a whole tend to play up the claims of hardship and bias, often using anecdotal evidence or partial explanations while ignoring or dismissing out of hand rebuttals to their assertions. The truth is somewhere in between. The best way, in my opinion, to call attention the plight of a group of people is to massively document what is being spoken about, and show the disproportionality. It is tempting to cherrypick isolated incidents and blow them up into a global narrative. That’s what mainstream media in all countries does, including (funny enough) some Russian and North Korean media claiming the US is building internment camps for its citizens, or US seizing on isolated extreme incidents and alleging there are millions of them (in China, for example). We absolutely need a platform for regular people to document claims at scale. Not Wikileaks, but for regular people. End to end encrypted, anonymous but with reputations, and able to aggregate videos under different topics.
pizza 7y ago
Another area this would be interesting to do more research would be agoraphobes, and/or people who stay in their bedrooms playing video games all day long. Wonder what the reward terrain would be like from their perspective.

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this mechanism also could underly apathies like privilege blindness--having the world seemingly match your expectations makes you unaware of how it can be skewe

by clairity 7y ago

this mechanism also could underly apathies like privilege blindness--having the world seemingly match your expectations makes you unaware of how it can be skewed in your favor and against others.

EGreg 7y ago
Most likely the gap happens because, on the one hand: 1. The privileged do not see enough actual evidence of the lack of privilege — for example all those little or big moments when someone who doesn’t have the privilege has a much harder time and on the other hand: 2. The people who seek to speak on behalf of the underprivileged group as a whole tend to play up the claims of hardship and bias, often using anecdotal evidence or partial explanations while ignoring or dismissing out of hand rebuttals to their assertions. The truth is somewhere in between. The best way, in my opinion, to call attention the plight of a group of people is to massively document what is being spoken about, and show the disproportionality. It is tempting to cherrypick isolated incidents and blow them up into a global narrative. That’s what mainstream media in all countries does, including (funny enough) some Russian and North Korean media claiming the US is building internment camps for its citizens, or US seizing on isolated extreme incidents and alleging there are millions of them (in China, for example). We absolutely need a platform for regular people to document claims at scale. Not Wikileaks, but for regular people. End to end encrypted, anonymous but with reputations, and able to aggregate videos under different topics.
pizza 7y ago
Another area this would be interesting to do more research would be agoraphobes, and/or people who stay in their bedrooms playing video games all day long. Wonder what the reward terrain would be like from their perspective.