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Old 26-06-2022, 10:00 AM #24
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier View Post
The GOAL of having a world where the colour of peoples skin is irrelevant and everyone can be “colour blind” is ultimately a positive one, but to suggest that we’re anywhere near that in todays world and can just sort of choose to pretend that race is not an issue is … questionable… and a privileged thing to be able to do.

It sort of makes me think of wealthy people saying “money doesn’t matter to me!”
Well, class/wealth is more influential over the paths someone can follow in life, than the amount of pigment they have in their skin. Ziggy is obviously well off, and being the son of someone like Jacob Marley would pretty much set anyone up for life, and give them built-in media careers.
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