‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by shadowgovt on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:26PM (#24903228)

So it's a matter of definition, not behavior. Because the point of unconscious bias training is to help people see the ways in which they are racist even if they don't think of themselves as racist.

In other words, there's no magically non-racist person out there. Everyone's a little bit racist.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by free_rms on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:12PM (#24903534)

It's a magical, shifting definition that means whatever the high priests need it to mean at the moment.

Making people confess to being 'racist', at institutions where being Racist gets you fired, is a power-move.

Those of us who can see that aren't objecting to the idea of unconscious bias, we're objecting to the power move.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by shadowgovt on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:20PM (#24903583)

If only there were some kind of, I dunno, training to help clarify and de-magic these words. ;)

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by free_rms on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:23PM (#24903601)

Do you believe racists should be shamed and fired?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by shadowgovt on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:33PM (#24903658)

I don't believe people should be shamed and fired for having unconscious bias and confronting it.

There's a world of difference between confronting one's unconscious bias and unapologetic, willful racism.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by free_rms on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:39PM (#24903692)

And, we're back to the magical shifting definition.

If there's such a world of difference, why conflate the two using the same word?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by shadowgovt on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:49PM (#24903756)

That's a question for the English language and dictionary authors, not for me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/merriam-webster-racism...

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by free_rms on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @12:14AM (#24904447)

Any thoughts of your own on the matter? We're way in the sidebar, don't worry about downvotes. Tell me why.

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