Viewpoint: 'I feel like I was accidentally hired'
This is a bit of an aside, but...<p>What I think is getting obscured in all of the overheated rhetoric about race is the fact that all humans want a tribe. We want to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.<p>I&#x27;m Canadian, but I can imagine if I were to move to France to learn French it would be similar. Many people would be welcoming, but some might be impatient with my shitty French and say&#x2F;do rude things. I&#x27;d probably end up affiliating with other Anglophones because we&#x27;d all be going through the same journey.<p>Expecting people to completely suppress this tendency towards in-group affiliation seems, frankly, unscientific. Most of the popular proposals aimed at &quot;eliminating racism&quot; seem likely to fail, or even backfire, because they treat racism like it&#x27;s something evil people do rather than a byproduct of our tendency to connect more easily to people like us.