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In general, people may more likely believe they got where they are based on merit when they're higher up on the totem pole. That makes sense to me. Where you lo
by bitshiftfaced 5y ago
In general, people may more likely believe they got where they are based on merit when they're higher up on the totem pole. That makes sense to me. Where you lose me is when you say that someone's skin color makes them have even more of a tendency (and to say that "of course" that's the way it works).
- kenjackson 5y agoThe poster I was responding to was noting that white people would look askance at blacks on the board, but I assume not whites. Both are at a high position, it only one group would be looked down on for any sort of privilege granted them. It is a function of race. Not an inherent function of being white, but rather the culture that allows white people to always believe “I did this myself”.
- bitshiftfaced 5y ago> Both are at a high position, it only one group would be looked down on for any sort of privilege granted them. It is a function of race. Not an inherent function of being white, but rather the culture that allows white people to always believe “I did this myself”. How is "looking down on for any sort of privilege" a function of race? I thought it was a function of the asymmetrical nature of the privilege.
- kenjackson 5y agoYes, the asymmetry’a axis is race.
- sanity31415 5y agoNo, it's class. Race is what the privileged use to distract attention from that.