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When white people are labeled for their other qualities, and non-white people are labeled for their (perceived) ethnicity, that’s racist. Which is to say, unfair. Not nice.


Were those two examples labeled by the same people? If there really is systematic bias why don’t they mention some statistics? For example, 90% of white people lacked a race tag while 80% of black people had one?

Also, it doesn’t seem like there has been any evil intent here, nor did I see anything about pernicious consequences. It seems a bit overblown to accuse people of racism over something that is unintended and theoretical. Just update the tags.


Shouldn't everyone just be labeled for everything? Seems like we should just add "white" to the tags of white people.




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