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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by giggles_giggles on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:12AM (#22065858)
I've seen studies[1][2] which indicate that unconscious racial bias training increases racist attitudes among those who are put through it. If that's true, unconscious bias training might be worse than bullshit, it might be actively harmful and counterproductive to its stated goals.

1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6524213/

2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095001701771984...

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by behringer on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:29AM (#22066052)
Ah we're making a generation of Michael Scott Racists.
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