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2/ Racism arouses strong sentiments, but is fundamentally better understood as a cognitive technology rather than a moral issue
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3/ One clear phenomenon is that racism is effectively disrupted by personal relationships across race. Racism needs isolation to function.
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4/ Cities are less racist than the countryside imo. Even if neighborhoods are segregated, there is humanizing contact.
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5/ Social media is curious: it partly disrupts racism by hiding irrelevant context, partly amplifies via filter bubbles.
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7/ The reason spelling-bee racists seem so funny is that their very choice of target marks them as living in uncool part of online world
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8/ So prediction: social media will eventually eliminate racism via ephemeralization, because on the social graph isolation is atrophy
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