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When you benefit from bias but can't afford to reject the advantage

I got promoted over my Black colleague who has been here longer and I know it's because I'm white, but I also need this job.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Recognizing unfair advantages doesn't eliminate the practical need to accept them, creating moral complexity about complicity in unjust systems.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Privilege and its acknowledgment?”

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