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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Replying to @jttiehen
My focus is different to your focus. I make no claims about whether it is true or false to say that all white people are racist. This will depend on the definition of racist & rigorous research into it. I am talking about the rights of people to their own thoughts.
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And the counterproductiveness to anti-racist causes of telling people they are racist because of their skin colour.
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