Well now, hold on a minute. Wouldn't you have a problem with someone who was white and upperclass, who made statements about what was super easy for you on the basis of their ideas about what people of your 'race' and class are like?
Leaving aside the red-herring question of dermal pigmentation, it's true that being born into the upper class generally does give one access to an education, whether or not one chooses to avail oneself of it. And it is certainly true that familiarity with the scientific method is considered essential to a proper education. The whole concept of 'race' is utterly unscientific, "not even wrong", as was conclusively demonstrated half a century ago.
The fact that one knows this doesn't make one unable to distinguish relative skin-tones, nor to discern class-markers in behavior and appearance. It doesn't make one more compassionate than other people, either. It only makes one less ignorant.
Yeah, being white and upperclass, or middle-class at least, the girl has probably never been subjected to routine scarcity and systematic oppression, nor lived among those who have been, and doesn't realize the differences that makes. That's what she doesn't SEE; she erroneously imagines that people who have, still think and feel and live pretty-much the same way she does.
Well, is that so awful? It's naive, yes, but naivete is a function of youth (and so is inappropriate giggling.) Surely there are enough people out there who DO see race and class, and intend to war about it to the bitter end, that this idealistic little chickie can be excused for the time being.
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Leaving aside the red-herring question of dermal pigmentation, it's true that being born into the upper class generally does give one access to an education, whether or not one chooses to avail oneself of it. And it is certainly true that familiarity with the scientific method is considered essential to a proper education. The whole concept of 'race' is utterly unscientific, "not even wrong", as was conclusively demonstrated half a century ago.
The fact that one knows this doesn't make one unable to distinguish relative skin-tones, nor to discern class-markers in behavior and appearance. It doesn't make one more compassionate than other people, either. It only makes one less ignorant.
Yeah, being white and upperclass, or middle-class at least, the girl has probably never been subjected to routine scarcity and systematic oppression, nor lived among those who have been, and doesn't realize the differences that makes. That's what she doesn't SEE; she erroneously imagines that people who have, still think and feel and live pretty-much the same way she does.
Well, is that so awful? It's naive, yes, but naivete is a function of youth (and so is inappropriate giggling.) Surely there are enough people out there who DO see race and class, and intend to war about it to the bitter end, that this idealistic little chickie can be excused for the time being.