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3. No they aren't

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 08:43 AM

Jan 2015

I have a strong bias for blue cheese salad dressing over ranch, but that doesn't mean that I would use my influence on the school board to ban ranch from the schools.

Run the same test with different hair/eye colors and you'll find that all men likely have a bias toward some combination. That doesn't mean that all men would discriminate against a woman with the "wrong" color hair.

Bias and racism are not the same thing.

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Yes, All White People Are Racists -- Now Let's Do Something About It [View all] xchrom Jan 2015 OP

This article is a difficult read for me, because its starts is fatally flawed ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #1

I agree this article is flawed. Here is my INdemo Jan 2015 #16

Agree, it came to a clumsily put conclusion. MrScorpio Jan 2015 #21

Changing how people think is a long arduous process cali Jan 2015 #2

Absolutely ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #17

No they aren't FBaggins Jan 2015 #3

+1. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author NaturalHigh Jan 2015 #4

White person takes online test that reveals he is a bigot, Nye Bevan Jan 2015 #5

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I edited for clarity (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2015 #12

Yes, all generalizations are bullshit seveneyes Jan 2015 #6

There are about 1000 more important questions than "whether I am racist" Recursion Jan 2015 #7

More important to you ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #19

I don't know that racism can be fixed Recursion Jan 2015 #20

Solutions cannot spring from a false premise. Sarcastica Jan 2015 #9

Even the blind? Fumesucker Jan 2015 #10

Yes, all PEOPLE are racist.... Motown_Johnny Jan 2015 #11

Confronting the issue isn't the point, trolling is Fumesucker Jan 2015 #14

This betrays a misunderstanding of the phenomena of racism ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #22

Pot... Mike Nelson Jan 2015 #13

I've tried many times to imagine how I think, or what I've ever thought or polly7 Jan 2015 #15

More evidence that when the far left wraps around back and meets the far right ... Newsjock Jan 2015 #23