Someone with darker skin would try without luck until they put on the white mask I had put on the table. I overheard a fair-skinned person say, “It works so well for me, I didn’t even imagine it wouldn’t work for someone else.” And someone else, with a darker complexion, commented, “Dang, the machines can’t see us either?” Without seeing someone else struggle with the Upbeat Walls system, the person for whom it had worked just assumed that it worked for everyone. But when they realized that wasn’t the case, their new awareness was reinforced by watching a video about the coded gaze. And the
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