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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @jttiehen
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @jttiehen @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @jttiehen @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @jttiehen
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
I thought you were objecting to the claim “all white people are racist,” but looking back at our thread I see you don’t object to it explicitly. So maybe I misunderstood...
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Replying to @jttiehen @HPluckrose
And I thought you were saying that the epistemological you mention make claims that are at least roughly in this vicinity. So I thought you were objecting to these epistemologists on that basis. But you don’t explicitly say you object to them, so maybe I misunderstood.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts & interpretations. I am muting this conversation now. I support your right to research & publish results on your research into this which I will read with interest.
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