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It is so refreshing to listen to this man in the video
His idea of a party without seeing reminded me of places like this or discord or reddit. Unless someone makes their profile picture a picture of themselves we have no idea what each other look like. (Unless I click on your profile and you have it listed) I don't know who's a man or a woman, who's old or young, I don't know what race or nationality you all are. I just like that his idea is a reality, and it does kind of seem like spaces like that have so much less of that sort of judgement because it's all irrelevant to the conversations we have and the friendships we form.
Party pooper!I'll be a bit of party pooper, but you could make everybody blind permanently and racism wouldn't go away or even be substantially diminished. Experiments have shown that if you remove faces, racist people will focus on names to assess who is in their in-group or out-group. They can even use addresses, accents, manner of speech to identify their vilified "other" just as much. The only difference is that sometime they get it wrong, let an "other" in and push out someone they would rather not in other circumstances, but most racist people consider this a fair trade-off to avoid cosmopolitanism. Putting a "blindfold on people" only shifts the problem to another area and, to a lesser extent, makes racism more insidious. Unfortunately there is no easy solution to racism beside time, education and repeated positive experience with the "other". Considering how our psyche is built, the best we can do is reduce its prevalence and, especially, its influence and power on society.