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> This is of course a common bias people have, not understanding what others do, but it's also exacerbated by a) being a privileged white man What does his ski
by boeingUH60 4y ago
> This is of course a common bias people have, not understanding what others do, but it's also exacerbated by a) being a privileged white man
What does his skin color have to do with this? You could have just simply said "privileged multi-billionaire".
- danpalmer 4y agoI was being a little facetious, but there’s some truth in it. White men have a lot of privilege, that’s fairly well accepted, and something I know from first hand experience. That privilege is what leads to things like mansplaining and overconfidence in one’s own opinions, or even deeming one’s own opinions to be facts. It leads there because the privileged are less likely to receive pushback on their ideas, more likely to receive praise, or even funding for their ideas, and society treats them as overall more correct. Huge generalisations of course, but so is most of this thread.