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By all means, enlighten me. What is racism then if it's not based on hatred of people because of their race?

• aaronblohowiak 13y ago
  Racism is any bias based on race.
  • cglace 13y ago
    If I'm white and I have a bias to think that white people typically can't dance. Does that make me a racist?
  • derefr 13y ago
    Oddly enough, this implies something HN people might find enlightening: Bayesian inference--you know, the mathematically-correct way to update a model of the world based on information--is inherently racist. (And sexist, and a bunch of other -ists.) (If people don't get the joke, this is a bit like the statement "science is inherently leftist." That doesn't mean science is wrong; it means you should re-evaluate your opinion (and moral gut-reaction) of exactly what it means to be leftist. Or, in this case, racist or sexist.)
    • owenmarshall 13y ago
      This is a perfect example of what my statistics professor always warned us about: if you base your statistics on a terrible model, you'll end up drawing terrible conclusions!
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