>>299729386
To be fair though, the internet really has made the world more equal.
I mean sure, there's still tons of problems with inequality in regards to everything from race to gender to sexual orientation to economic class, but, despite still existing, the internet has made progress with them. I mean think about how easily the internet makes it for people to un-indoctrinate themselves from extremist ideology. Sure, it's given people tools to do the reverse as well, but before digital communication, it was practically impossible to ever deradicalize yourself because your information could be more easily controlled. Plus, the internet has (for those willing to engage with it) given us the ability to anonymously interact with people of a variety of backgrounds without any preconceived biases, thus increasing our exposure to alternate viewpoints which is a surefire way to chip away at prejudice. Once again, the internet can do the opposite by creating echo-chambers, but people who remain in those would've found a way to stay ignorant whether the internet existed or not.
VR takes all of this to a deeper level as places like VR chat can give more human interactions than text based forums ever could, and can remove even more barriers with anonymous avatars and such. Of course, I don't have some Pollyanna view that VR is gonna fix all our problems and create some new spiritual awakening in the masses or anything, but it has the potential to create improvement just like the internet did before it, and even the printing press did before that.

TL;DR
VR isn't a panacea for ignorance but tech that connects people tends to have a net positive affect against prejudice and ignorance, so OP isn't far off.