How to get through the door
“Oi! Let me in!”
“Why? No way! I don’t know who you are and I don’t like the looks of ya! Or the smell! Where are you from again? Are you the police? I didn’t order pizza!”
“Okay — stand back then! Here I come!”
Thud, thud, thud — CRACK!
How’s that working out for you? You’d never do that would you?
Well, you probably are you know, at least based on what I’m seeing when I look around on Medium — at least psychologically speaking.
Because unfortunately the moment you put up a profile photo, profile information, “foreign” name etc stuff that reveals your race, age, gender, orientation, nationality, family status, tattoos etc etc — basically any indication of identity, you are triggering the built in brain bug of “in group bias” and you’re going to get filtered.
Yep it sucks.
Let’s call it the obstacle of identity. I touched on it this morning:
