The premise of implicit bias theorizing is that implicit biases causally influence what people say and do.https://twitter.com/hpluckrose/status/1002154721522737153 …
Absolutely you can. This is definitely liberal. It does not require any thought policing of anyone else. Please see the rest of the original thread where I said this.
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Suppose I then pass along this idea to colleagues. “Hey, I think it might make sense for you to grade blindly too, since we all have biases.” Has that crossed the line into thought policing? If not, isn’t that pretty similar to what a lot of the focus on implicit bias amounts to?
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Grading blindly is an excellent idea for many reasons. No, taking reasonable practical steps to minimise bias is not what I am talking about in my tweet threads. I think the worrying attitudes I am talking about are pretty clear but if you don't understand them, you don't.
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Fair enough. I’m mostly familiar just with how certain academics talk about implicit bias, but if you tell me there are people on tumblr or whatever who think of it differently, I can’t speak to that—you may be right.
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Yes, this was in response to someone claiming all white people are racist. However, you can look to Medina, DiAngelo, Bailey, Applebaum, Wolf, McIntyre, Ahmed, Boler and many many more feminist & critical race epistemologists for the source of such claims.
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1. This is separate from the original point regarding implicit bias. 2. This claim may be true or false, but it doesn’t seem in principle more objectionable than, say, Haidt claiming all people have certain moral foundations which often operate unconsciously...
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3. I agree there’s a *practical* matter of how to combat racism, but I’d want to give researchers wide berth in *theorizing* it how they see, unconstrained by such practical considerations. So for example...
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Maybe it annoys people to claim that implicit bias is pervasive, and maybe pointing this out actually causes more racist behavior. Regardless, I want to know: is it *true*? If it’s true, researchers should be allowed to point it out.
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I wrote a thread which explains what *I* am talking about. I can only ask you to read it and respond only to what I have said. Perhaps you are detecting hidden meaning advocating limiting researchers on their topics of study but I cannot be held responsible for them.
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