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1/ Here are two very different takes on the racial disparities in #COVID19. If you read them back to back, you’ll have a perfect understand of the root cause of most racism and inequality in the world: the fundamental attribution error.
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2/ Article 1 @phillymag is some classic victim blaming from my hometown of Philly: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/03/31/philadelphia-stricter-coronavirus-restrictions/
3/ “My fiancé and I *decided* to only grocery shop online and no longer go outside for anything.”
Then rails at African Americans for not doing the same.
Umm who’s delivering your groceries? Picking up your trash? You get $ to sit home and write, others have to go drive a bus.
Then rails at African Americans for not doing the same.
Umm who’s delivering your groceries? Picking up your trash? You get $ to sit home and write, others have to go drive a bus.
4/Article 2 @BrookingsInst Beautifully explains #COVID__19 through the lens of structural inequality. Lays out all the reasons why “When America catches a cold, Black people get the flu.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/04/09/why-are-blacks-dying-at-higher-rates-from-covid-19/amp/
5/The fundamental attribution error is the tendency we all have to overemphasize personal choices and underemphasize the situations we are in. https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/fundamental-attribution-error
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