Is Starbucks Racist?

[*PhilHos*]

(04-18-2018, 10:35 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I actually don't think the majority of incidents like this, or policies, are intended to be racially biased. This is why I talk so much about implicit biases. These are unconscious biases that do, in fact, guide a lot of our decisions in life. I contend that if these were white people, then cops would not have been called. Even if cops had been called, they would not have responded in the way they did. Those things are the result of implicit racial biases.

Remember my anecdote I mentioned earlier? I've called the cops on people refusing to leave a few times. All but one were on white people. The one that wasn't was Hispanic.

I don't deny that there are many people that would call the cops on black people but not on white people in similar situations, but just because it happened in this particular instance doesn't automatically equate to an implicit bias unless it can be shown that the same person in the same situation did not call the cops on white people who did the exact same thing that these black people did.