It's important to take responsibility for the things we say but we do also need to take responsibility for our perceptions of what others do
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Then the second person has changed the first's meaning & if 1st clarifies she's not making a racist assumption, she's the authority on that.
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This is one of those things which should be obvious but seems not to be to very many people.
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Of course, this is due to the belief in an unconscious bias we all have. 'You can't see it yourself but I can coz I understand these things'
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Of course, we do all have unconscious biases but these are rarely uncovered by other people with explicit ideological biases of their own.
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This example also begs the question who the real prejudiced person is. Who thinks all black people listen to rap music late at night?
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Exactly, the second person is projecting a stereotype of black people, and the first person is just talking about loud rap music.
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To assume does not just make an ass out of u and me, your assumptions also say more about yourself than about the other person.
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