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12671269, maybe i missed but i thought the article actually avoided this
Posted by imcvspl, Wed Dec-10-14 10:47 AM
>this science says that the bias is unconscious,
>that it can be changed with effort,

I don't think they actually showed they could make a lasting change. Remember there were what like 15 experiments and only one or two yielded some debatably positive results.

>and that it doesn't come from your personal, conscious feeling
>about black ppl--
>instead it comes from socialized implicit biases planted in
>you by a system
>that was designed to perpetuate racism and keep it invisible.

But they don't go here at all, rather say dat cism is in our natural makeup. I'd love to see a separate study on how elements of society play into that, psychologically reinforcing dat 'cism on a subconscious level.

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