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Do you really think that people are biased with respect to names, but then forget that bias as soon as the person enters the room? Also, it's unclear to me why
by kalkin 14y ago
Do you really think that people are biased with respect to names, but then forget that bias as soon as the person enters the room?
Also, it's unclear to me why it might be better to be prejudiced against African-American names than against African-American skin tones. Your definition of racism appears to (a) include policies that disadvantage the dominant group (white people), even when motivated by a goal of correcting historical injustice and insufficient to undo their/our dominance, but to (b) exclude actions that disadvantage the historically oppressed group (Black people), even when motivated by prejudice, as long as that prejudice isn't explicitly based on skin color. Do you maybe want to reconsider?