This Brady victory is proof that, when given a level playing field and appropriate resources, white men can be successful in America.
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Replying to @marclamonthill
as opposed to people like you who advocate stacking the field against them?
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Replying to @MikeZ2111 @marclamonthill
No. Not stacking field against. America spots white dudes like 3-17 points off top. We want all to start at zero.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @marclamonthill
how do you figure that? Or is that an excuse to justify discrimination? Because objectively there are many
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cases in which factually the deck is stacked against white people.
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Replying to @MikeZ2111 @marclamonthill
to me a lot of it is about unconscious biases. Like, for instance, young boys tend to get more praise for smarts
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Replying to @csilverandgold @marclamonthill
so in other words real, verifiable discrimination is justified in the name of some unprovable ghost?
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Replying to @MikeZ2111 @marclamonthill
well, not everything you can't observe directly is an "unprovable ghost."
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we know unconscious bias exists thanks to the IAT and thanks to statistics and studies.
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we know for sure that teachers historically (may have been corrected in some places by now) called on boys more.
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many of these teachers were female and presumably harbored no conscious bias against female students.
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what explanation do you have for that besides unconscious bias?
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