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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Are you white? || If you press the button, everybody's skin color in the entire world becomes an average, medium shade of brown, for five years, and all faces shift slightly to become a bit more ethnically ambiguous. After 5 years, all changes reverse. You:
  • yes || press button
    43.1%
  • yes || don't press
    35.2%
  • no || press button
    7.4%
  • no || don't press
    14.3%
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Quiir0
@Quiir0_
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@Aella_Girl
Same thing as in your other twitter’s post (changed percentages): Interesting how 75% non white people (of which I’m part of) have chosen to not press the button, while the 50% of white people opt to press it. I would like to know the reasoning behind this.
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@Insect_Song
Replying to
@Quiir0_
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@Aella_Girl
My mental model is that the high SES people following Aella on Twitter think white skin colour is a disadvantage. If I pressed the button I'd retain my advantages, and I'd stop losing out to the explicit and implicit affirmative action designed to level the playing field.
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Quiir0
@Quiir0_
Replying to
@Aella_Girl
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@Insect_Song
So that begs the question, though your other Twitter is populated by people who don’t know about your views, the percentage is still similar. Yet the reasoning behind it escapes me. I have a theory but idk how to put it in words. Also, what does SES mean?
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