Generally speaking, I think we ought to leave people's implicit biases alone and care about what they say & do.There is no right of access to somebody else's head, and any attempt to read what is in there will almost certainly reveal more of the reader's bias than the scrutinised
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LOL! As I speak, a 21-year-old male friend has just messaged me to ask me to help him think of anniversary gifts for his parents. There might be some gender & age-related assumptions going on in his head there.
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But, yes, generally, if you assume that someone will have certain biases because they are white or male or heterosexual or cisgendered, consider that it might be you who needs to examine your own biases.
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Yesterday, someone was talking about the entitlement of SocJus types who think everyone has a responsibility to prioritise their key issue & I think that is a sound observation.
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We all have a moral responsibility not to impact society negatively with any prejudices we might have & it's generally good to be reflective about this. But we do not have the right to make others prioritise what is most important to us.
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You can suggest to someone that he may want to put work into dismantling his whiteness but if he chooses to focus his social conscience on raising money for Water Aid & Cancer Research, better recycling services in his area & supporting a lonely, disabled elderly neighbour...
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...you might just have to settle for him not doing or saying anything racist & leave his suspected unconscious racial biases alone.
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"Biases are something we get from society." Source? It seems to me that there might be something inherent in humans to see people who don't look/act like them as "other" and prefer people who do, which is essentially what a bias is. After all, humans created society.
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I think the Gospel of Luke said something about that.
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