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Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies
Molly McHugh (3774987) writes with an intriguing use of VR technology: "It's as simple as making a light-skinned person feel connected to a virtual, darker skinned self—a thought experiment pretty much impossible without the immersive potency of VR. The effect is achieved by outfitting participants in VR headsets with built-in head-tracking and motion capture capabilities that sync actual movement to virtual experience." From the article: Evolving from cruder methods, VR is a natural extension of research examining the ways that people think differently when made to feel like they are part of a meaningfully different social group, known as an outgroup.
... What’s most exciting about this channel of research is that it gets at the kind of complex, subtle prejudices that most people can’t even articulate if asked directly.
" heterosexual white male privilege"
Add that to the list of bullshit I'm tired of. I'm not repressing you. I'm not oppressing you.
So get off your fucking High Horse.
No one is accusing you of oppression or repression, they are only stating that you have privileges that you don't see. You just can't see your privilege because like everyone, you only live in your viewpoint.
I am a straight, white male raised by two educated, middle-class parents who valued education. This gives me an ENORMOUS advantage over 95% of the population. I work hard, but honestly I have NOT had to bust my ass too hard to become a successful, upper-income, white male. I get out of bad situations easily merely because I am not seen as a threat by anyone in power, but rather an ally, just because of the color of my skin.
You have to realize that the reason that YOU think your life is not privileged is because you live in the middle of it. You think that if you have problems you are not privileged, but even the 1% has problems. I have only in the past few years come to realize the advantages I have had all my life, and when you get older you will hopefully see the same thing.
So no one is accusing you of anything, they are just letting you know that you have it better than you realize.
Not really, no. I find, when Whites complain about having been "broad brushed", it's because not just the color of Their skin but Their apparent willingness to do nothing or next to nothing about the lingering racism in America, such as (1) laws and/or policies which disproportionately burden People of color or disproportionately diminish opportunities for such Individuals, (2) business practices which tend to cater solely to Whites, portray All Blacks with gross stereotypes, or act as if north western European cultures, so-called "white cultures", are the normative standard against which all cultures are to be judged, (3) simple day to day acts of cultural insensitivity, such as placing traditional Hispanic, Asian, and certified kosher/halal foods all in 1/2 of one grocery store aisle, despite almost half of that store's Customers being Hispanic, Asian, and/or of a religion, race, or ethnicity which emphasizes kosher/halal food, (4) more egregious acts of ethnic ostracization, such as Black Neurosurgeons in New York being incapable of getting a cab, despite being a Neurosurgeon, because of being Black, and (5) horrendously degrading treatment, such as when a well dressed Reporter recently entered a business office while a border-line stereotypically-Hobo-looking White Guy entered that same office immediately in line in front of the Reporter and that Reporter was singled out for increased security solely because He's black. Whites in America, on average, do not (or at least act as if They do not) even remotely understand the harassment which Blacks in America have to endure on a daily, if not hourly, basis and do so with an incredible grace to which Nobody should have to resort. Consistent with that lack of understanding, Whites in America will often just stand back, turn a metaphorical blind eye, and say something to the effect of, "Hey, Nobody shouted 'the n-word' and Nobody explicitly said to single People out for being Black. So, there's no racism here." Yet, the inaction of confrontation allows the festering of white supremacy advocacy to spread, even if only spoken in private, and for the systemic means of disproportionately degrading, disenfranchising, and destroying People of color to perpetuate just as much as if Those particular Whites put on a hood and light a cross in Morgan Freeman's front yard each and every single night.
"like the current President who keeps telling me how much more privileged I am than he was."
Your racism is showing. He doesn't say this kind of thing. Who are these knobs who mod up the parent post?
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