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    It is not the case that Selecting for skin tone to gain racial privilege is a paradigm case where individual optimization reproduces collective domination without any single actor bearing full responsibility.

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    • 1.The claim conflates preference expression with causal responsibility; individuals cannot be held responsible for how markets aggregate their choices.
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    • 2.Systemic racism preceded these individual choices and would persist absent them; treating symptoms as causes obscures structural drivers.
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    • 3.Personal grooming decisions don't necessarily express endorsement of racial hierarchy; attributing political meaning to individual choices overstates their agency.
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    • 1.Individuals making rational self-interested choices (e.g., lightening skin) aggregate into systemic racial hierarchy without requiring central coordination.
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    • 2.Each actor can claim their choice is minimal/defensive rather than aggressive, yet collective effect sustains racial privilege structures.
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    • 3.Responsibility diffusion across many small decisions makes it difficult to identify and hold accountable those maintaining systemic inequality.
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