The cure for privilege.

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69. I think there is ignorance and there is stupidity.

Stupidity is self inflicted ignorance.

And, as Ron White famously said, you can't fix stupid. Now, people who have a vested interest in racism are stupid. They can't be fixed. They can only be controlled. People who may be racist or hold racist ideas and not know it can be educated. And I expect most people that hold racist ideas do so out of a need for little more than social plumage themselves or have simply not given the issue any serious thought. Given a choice between a better life and their racism, they would choose a better life.

I don't think that the people who might be the most easily changed would benefit from being lectured about how much better they have it while they are struggling as well. Belittling people's accomplishments is no way to teach them anything. It's certainly no way to bring them to your side.

Imagine yourself on a desert island with someone who hates you with visceral intensity. You need each other to survive. You need him, he needs you. Do you think either one of you will survive if you spend your time telling him how stupid he is? We are on that island right now. This country and the entire species is on a precipice. We will survive together or fall separately.