Racist lady on bus informed U.S. has no official language

[NickyG]

@ficuswhisperer

There’s no reason someone who’s white and male for example can’t subvert this privilege to benefit others. It’s just that all too many who are comfortable with their lot in life would rather fight against making things better for others, lest they lose any of their precious privilege by someone else being able to have more advantages because to them everything in life is a zero sum game.

Yes, this! The idea that “winning at society” even is a zero sum game is a ridiculous notion IMO. I’d even say it’s at the core of the mental shackles that hold back our world. We can make this place better for everyone, if by “better” you have a more expansive definition than “can use extreme wealth to dominate others and simultaneously make the world a worse place.”