Huh, implicit bias training is no silver bullet, & obviously it's turning out to be lip service, but curious why you call it "go-nowhere?"
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I don't know much what training is like but my research into heuristic development seems to show it's a major cognitive hurdle & effects all
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I see implicit bias as the neuro-mechanical reason white supremacy is pervasive part of politics w/out being seen as such by right/centrists
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Just explaining why my ears perk up at the idea, not that it'd end up doing much even best case scenario if done w/out comprehensive reform
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Modern (racist) policing, at least in maj cities, isnt systematically destructive bc of indv cop biases. Policy & technology drive it, actly
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There is also, I've heard, scant evidence that IB training changes policing outcomes. Cc
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Thank you, that's sort of what I expected & it all makes sense. Are either of you willing/able to point me toward any particular research?
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Full disclosure I'm so bad at google when it comes to shit like this lol but yeah I feel like learning about micro-level interventions—
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—can make it easier to discount macro-level forces. I try to avoid that (I think l hedged my statements to that effect well lol) & yet!
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I'm an educator so my praxis is all micro, but it's really useful to understand IBT training in terms of its limitations v. systemic limits
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Stop, read J's many published articles and interviews on the topic. It's abt lived reality under brutal police, not an academic exercise.
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Thank you for rec, I'd like to clarify that I in no way mean to diminishing lived reality under murderous racist system, & understanding—
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—pros and cons of various interventions is important to me as an educator. Restorative justice is an all-hands-on-deck fight & we MUST win.
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