Experience in an online game gives us a shocking reminder of the racism underlying everyday interactions in the real world. I think this is less evidence that "the web isn't colorblind after all" than it is proof that we cannot escape our real-world-based assumptions, biases, comfort zones, even when we know intellectually that we are seeing a person via an arbitrary representation. We've got a long way to go...
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