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>And Max acknowledges this privilege.

Closed article.

This part of the article really stood out as awkward placement to me. As a white guy dating a black woman, we often go to events with her friends or family where I am the only white person and it can be quite unwelcoming especially at some night clubs. This idea that if you're white you fit in anywhere has such disconnect from reality.

Relative privilege still applies here. The "only person of of my race in the room" is new for you, but ubiquitous for a huge number of POCs, especially when climbing the corporate/academic ladder.

You seem to have decided he was just out of place, but that's not what he said.

Being out of place and being unwelcome aren't the same thing.

Probably, he was majority-welcome, but minority animosity from just a few of a sea of similar faces feels quite threatening.

I understand the overwhelming influx of SJW stuff, but this is actually quite appropriate here.

As a fellow white guy, I know it's a lot easier for me to walk up to stranger and have them trust me than many minorities would experience.

it's not just trust. a minority person (by which i mean to include all and only the less powerful in society, which has a heavy overlap with racial and ethnic minorities) can seem completely non-threatening, but still won't receive the kind of treatment he gets because the other party cannot muster the mental energe to do it as they finds it hard to imagine such treatment "leading to" anything.

As a very short white guy (5'1 here), I can assure you that height and attractiveness is much more important than race

have you ever been a tall attractive black guy?

Your attitude is part of the very problem, not of the solution.

You wanted to read an article about someone escaping a bubble, but closed the article the first time it challenged your bubble?

Many are becoming fatigued with the unrelenting virtue signalling that's going on these days.

> virtue signalling

A phrase only ever used by people who wish to send their own special kind of virtue signal.

calling out virtue signalling isn't really signalling in itself though, beyond an expression of disapproval obviously.

It's signal turtles all the way down.

Sure man, cool.

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