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Is this not alike to asking me to not have the mental view of a basketball team as a coloured group of tall males? And if I had that view, then am I discriminat
by laythea 9y ago
Is this not alike to asking me to not have the mental view of a basketball team as a coloured group of tall males? And if I had that view, then am I discriminating against short white people, or have I built a more accurate mental model of the world?
- neltnerb 9y agoBias is an input, and almost never the fault of the person who has it. It's just the way that brains work. Discrimination is an effect. Bias may cause discrimination, but bias in itself is not malicious.
- tmalsburg2 9y agoIf you think that being a female engineer is like being short in basketball, then there are clearly serious problems with your mental model of the world.
- laythea 9y agoNo, that's not what I said. Let me put it another way, things form patterns in life. All sorts of patterns. E.g. As a silly example to illustrate clearly, trees are generally green. Is that discriminating against other colours? (if such a thing were possible). Or simply an observation of life.