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I Don't Love Conflicts Like All These Things Will Hold Me Into Doing Less, Not More
Psychologists found that when white people were reminded of their racial privilege, they felt more cognitively and emotionally drained. White amer as are advantaged in the domains of academics, housing, health care, jobs and more compared to black americans. Our minds go through a whole host of mental gymnastics when our self image as a decent person is threatened. The process of motivated reasoning can sometimes get so extreme that we lie to ourselves and re invent our past....