> It's structural and systemic, so for the first time a lot of of white progressives are discovering that we're part of the problem. Saying "I don't see colour"

> It's structural and systemic, so for the first time a lot of of white progressives are discovering that we're part of the problem. Saying "I don't see colour" is suddenly the wrong thing to say. For a long time it was the correct thing to say and think. K-12 schools, even in "red" America, very successfully taught me that sex and color aren't how you judge people, and gave me the impression we were past that. The dissonance of seeing that not everyone was on-board with that program the way I thought they (we) just about all were, and of backlash against that attitude itself(!) has taken me from legitimately, no-BS, about as close to being not-racist and not-sexist as possible, as a kid, to feeling like I'm more racist and sexist than I was. And I don't just mean that my eyes have been opened to ways I was without realizing it, but actually transforming my thinking to consider those factors way more and (inevitably) incorporate biases from them. It's weird and fairly unpleasant (and, as a symptom of precisely this issue, I must hasten to add that I don't intend this as crying about getting the short end of the stick or setting myself up as victim-in-chief, obviously).