04-13-2018, 01:50 PM
(04-13-2018, 01:31 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I'm not saying all the time, but - and I know this is anecdotally - I've seen far more people claim racism or see racism tha tisn't there than the other way around.
I don't deny their existence; I just don't believe it is happening with the regularity that you think it is.
The evidence through studies points to such a high prevalence of implicit biases at work that it is difficult to not see it at a high rate of occurrence. The whole idea of these implicit biases is that there is a racially discriminatory component to the social interactions that is not being executed consciously. So the person who acts on these biases is not actively viewing them as racist, which means there are actually more instances of racial discrimination occurring than we perceive, not fewer.
This is some very interesting stuff to look at, in all seriousness. One of the things I look at in research, sometimes, is how implicit biases impact the way public policy is enacted and carried out. Trying to craft policy that is truly colorblind is extremely difficult because of how impactful these biases are, and they are something everyone has.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/index.jsp
![[Image: racebreakdown.jpg]](https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/demo.us/demo.race.0005/images/racebreakdown.jpg)
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