Well, I spoke not of flipping out but of resignedly giving up trying to help coz you're being told you're not, in the first place. Also, it's not behaviour. It's being white. That makes all the difference. If what you did was have white skin, reflecting won't help much.
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Yes, you can. Unless you're a cultural relativist. 'I think women should stay in the home' could come from a number of backgrounds but it doesn't get better or worse depending on which one. Christian? Bad. Muslim? Good. Consistently support equal rights for women.
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We can certainly have more sympathy for horrible views if we know where they come from. People who develop anti-Muslim bigotry coz they are ex-Muslim & their life has been threatened. Women who hate men because their father & husband were abusive bastards. Still bad takes tho.
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People, yes. We can like someone who has several bad ideas. We don't have to think their ideas are good.
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To eludicate Helen's point, consider the following: we're talking about statistically probable implicit biases observed during a controlled experiment, yes? Implicit would suggest that these biases are not explicitly decided.
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If you tell an individual that they are is responsible for a choice they did not explicitly make, their self-reflection goes from 'how can I change my action to avoid this outcome' to 'why should I try to change my action when I'm not making a choice'.
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Is that the idealogical cliff you want to shove them towards? None of this is to suggest that doing such controlled experiments isn't useful for making society better and fairer for everyone. I have a suggestion, however.
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Instead of criticizing the people who implicitly benefit from unfair systems (by attributing it to their immutable characteristic), help them understand how they benefit without attributing it to their immutable characteristic.
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Also let's talk about these broken systems and suggest ways to fix them that people can grapple.
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Huh. But didn't you support James Damore? The the genetic determinist who argues that sex differences are correlated directly to midlife job choice? That doesn't seem much like a "say or do" type of position.
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