Yes, the United States’ history of slavery and racial discrimination means that Americans in general have implicit biases, a civil rights lawyer and top Biden administration Justice Department nominee told a stunned Republican senator on Tuesday.
"…I think these statements were beyond the pale. I don’t think really anybody truly believes them, nor should they be believed, because they’re so preposterous.”
Ironic how pollyannaish this most hypocritical and cynical of attacks actually is. “How could you possibly accuse the “decent [white] people” of harboring implicit bias, as do all human beings as I know myself perfectly well having gone through a couple Ivies myself where this concept is universally accepted, oh, how could you think such reprehensible thoughts, I pity you when not regarding you with pious horror” and so forth. Asshole.
I am so fucking sick of disingenuous GOP bullshit getting treated as anything but. Cotton wasn’t “horrified” he was fucking playing a game. Tom Cotton the man who said slavery was ’necessary evil’ isn’t against racism, he’s fucking acting. Cotton knows exactly which Americans harbor implicit bias, it’s his fucking voters!
Can our media just stop treating these people as sincere when they are clearly not for gawds sake!
Yes, we all hold biases and not all of them are racial. When juries are selected that is assumed; what is asked is that we put them aside and judge fairly.