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How to handle resentment about reparative opportunities

I got a full scholarship to an elite university and my roommate keeps making comments about how lucky I am to get free money while her parents have to pay full tuition.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The burden of representing both individual merit and collective redress creates impossible emotional labor.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”

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