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The study that showed pretty much everyone is, at heart, a bigot? Yeah. So? Strive to do better. Knowing your natural predisposition, counteract it. Help these
by EdHominem 11y ago
The study that showed pretty much everyone is, at heart, a bigot? Yeah. So? Strive to do better. Knowing your natural predisposition, counteract it.
Help these Mexicans get jobs and in a while they won't be "diverse", they just won't look exactly like everyone. Even these purebred enclaves have got blondes and brunettes (right?) and society hasn't ripped itself apart. This is just another trivial difference they'll learn to ignore.
- blfr 11y agoThe study that showed pretty much everyone is, at heart, a bigot? Yeah. So? Not really but that's like concluding that studies on multitasking show everyone's lazy and they just need to try harder instead of focusing on one thing. "Knowing your natural predisposition, counteract it." Back in the communist days, there was a popular saying in Poland: "the system is fine, only people failed it." Obviously, it's silly to design a system for humans that doesn't work for humans because you otherwise like its aesthetics or it would work great if the people acted differently than humans normally do. Not that we don't do it in IT with certain regularity.
- EdHominem 11y agoThere are seven billion people - we can't all live in separate little groups. Obviously, it's silly to design a system for a world we don't live in.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoNo, that's not what the Putnam study said. That's what Putnam wrote at the end that he hoped would be true, but had no evidence for (in spite of searching for it for 6 years and delaying publication of evidence to the contrary).