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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Does that make every American necessarily racist? No.
Can you get around this? No. Because to do so you would have to prove every American is racist. What about the word "impossible" do you not grasp?
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It would seem you simply do not have the capacity to understand this concept. Let's try to make it as absolutely easy and straightforward as possible.
Racism is not necessarily intentional. Surely you understand what implicit/
unconscious bias is, correct? If you acknowledge that this principle exists (and I believe we've all taken the implicit bias test* which proves that everyone harbors bias) and you can understand it, maybe you'll get there. You just have to let go of the idea that all racism is something people do to other people with the intent to harm (with that intent having to be proven beyond any doubt at all) or out of malice. Implicit bias and the resulting behavior influenced by implicit bias
is racism and it is not intentional.
Please read the Yellow Paper on confirmation bias. I guarantee you the participants weren't sitting there reading memos with the intent to grade memo writers differently based on their race. But they did. That is racism. And it happens everywhere, constantly.
http://nextions.com/wp-content/uploa...per-series.pdf
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*Take it, if you haven't.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1
