Even African Americans will test positive on implicit bias tests *against African Americans* because they're the recipients of all the same societal messages that white people are. They do tend to have lower implicit bias levels, though, as they have more chances for counter msgs
Hey @allisons would you be so kind as to introduce me to intersectionality? Turns out it is important to me.
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I'm going to naively assume you're being sincere. Because hope! The first thing you need to get is the concept of social stratification. Society is not an undifferentiated blob - people are different and they're organized in to stratum or hierarchical layers.
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The features, characteristics, and interests are unequally valued. Society as a whole is designed by and for the dominant group.
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But obviously there's more than one way to slice up people into these groups - the most obvious one's being gender, race, and economic class.
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And you may be in the privileged class for one group and the underprivileged class for another. I'm an upper middle class white woman. I have lots and lots of white and class privilege but I suffer (some) disadvantages because I'm female.
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And that's the basics of intersectionality - there's an *intersection* of different identities that can lead to a compounding of disadvantage or the dilution of the disadvantage depending on where you land on that line.
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So a white houseless person may be better off than a black houseless person (considering that even poor white people are more likely to have relatives with sufficient resources to help out), but obviously it's a big disadvantage not to have a permanent address.
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Thank you, that makes sense to me.
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