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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is completely, unequivocally, demonstrably, and totally fucking false. Everything else that flows from this garbage is absolutely pointless.
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Great. As must all discussions, even though this was about reporters, it's now about race.
Right. Well, a kid can have bias injected into his head by being raised in a racist system. But even then, if he's not taking any action to avoid this bias, he has made a decision, hasn't he? Whether deciding to be biased himself, or to do nothing, he's decided.
But on a political matter, which we were discussing, without an intentional decision to view a certain issue a certain way, bias can never occur. (Unless you assume humans have no agency in this stuff, which would also mean they have no responsibility for their acts, which I don't think you or anyone else thinks would be a good rule.) I had to think about Trump, even if it was only fleeting, before deciding he was a fool. I had to think about W before I decided he likely lied us into war. I could not reach those biases without some individual act on my part.
And since then, those views of both men have infected the way I think about both men. This has led me to the notion that one should look at issues discretely. We can't vote that way, of course. But it is the smarter way to think about issues, and it girds against tribal thinking. It's harder to get emotional, to let the lizard brain take over, regarding policy than it is regarding a person.
