You know what else -- if you find that certain frequencies in the music you're listening to are over-represented, they make these earplugs which can dampen only

You know what else -- if you find that certain frequencies in the music you're listening to are over-represented, they make these earplugs which can dampen only those frequencies. The song isn't anymore equalized coming out of the speaker, but as long as you've got your earplugs in you won't know the difference. I can very honestly and sincerely say that I find this more insidious form of racism, which is so widely accepted, to be much more disturbing and frightening. I can see why you would say that, because nobody reasonable accepts the open racism you grew up with, whereas -- if you think diversity efforts are racism and sexism -- then it seems to you that there is unspoken acceptance of race/gender-based discrimination. Consider that, a) your solution would require everyone to be ignorant of race, not just you, b) not all racism is overt and visible, or even intentional, and therefore well-meaning people can still end up perpetuating racial biases because they can't correct for what they don't see c) supposing that you, on the basis of your race, were a member of a historically empowered group -- any efforts to reverse that advantage would feel to your group like a loss of power, which is naturally against your near-term interests d) supposing again that racial biases exist and have disempowered certain groups, over time, and empowered others -- the advantages would have had a cumulative effect over generations, as this is how advantage (in terms of wealth, connections, access, transmitted/received knowledge) is often-observed to accrue. In that case simply putting on the blinders would be like dragging one runner down with a 100 lb weight for half the race, then removing the weight and simply expecting the rest of the race to be fair.