• lime!@feddit.nu
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    3 hours ago

    that’s not being a blank slate though, that’s being so devoid of empathy that you can’t even imagine what it’s like being yourself a few years ago.

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      2 hours ago

      that’s not being a blank slate though

      It’s people who don’t have a strong opinion because they haven’t been bombarded with a particular flavor of social media yet.

      A twenty-year-old is going to have a different view of alternative ethnic groups than a forty-year-old, simply by way of psychological attrition. You can only get so many “Black Man With Sour Face In Orange Jumpsuit” local news jump-scare stories before the racism is bludgeoned into your gray matter.

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        2 hours ago

        sure but that’s all predicated on growing up in an individualist culture.