Karky’s Reviews > The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together > Status Update
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Zero-sum game policies hurt everyone. Pools were filled w cement rather than integrate, & now those communities lack that amenity. College was largely free until the 1960s. White people benefit most from social programs, but fed contradictory narrative. White wages are kept down thru exploiting minority labor. Said programs built the white middle class before anti-discrimination laws, & now they're being destroyed.
— Sep 14, 2023 12:53PM
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Karky
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Homogenous groups tend to assume that they think alike, and so there's more mental friction in diverse groups. It's like Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow when he described how harder to read text is more mentally taxing, but forcing us to slow down and critically think leads to better comprehension. Diversity is harder but the results are better because we're forced to critically think. Studies confirm.
— Sep 22, 2023 11:45AM
Karky
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White kids in diverse schools test higher, particularly in math & science. Better critical thinking skills when introduced to other perspectives.
— Sep 19, 2023 04:52PM
Karky
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Reducing Chicago's segregation to the national average: more finish higher education and earn more lifetime earnings. 30% decrease in homicide leading to less public costs in police, courts, and correction facilities. Raising real estate values & preserving the income tax revenue. Increased life expectancy. Integrated communities are less polluted, for white people too. Less insane housing prices.
— Sep 19, 2023 04:02PM
