Quotes About Bias

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of writing what they want to. And when they disagree, it is usually not with what the writer says, but with what they imagine he said... People filter what they read through the fine strainer of their feelings and preconceptions, their prejudices and fears.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as 'reasonable' as we like to think they are.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

In this regard, professionals of color may hold an edge. In focus groups we conducted, countless participants confirmed that being a minority is itself a relentless exercise in reading others in order to anticipate and overcome reflexive bias or unconscious resistance.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

make plus model plus race equaled drug dealer,

However, just because it's an institution of higher learning offering the course doesn't mean it's automatically free from bias and veiled sales pitches.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

If you go to Spain and ask, 'Who has the best goalkeepers?' they will say, 'The Spanish.' If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, 'God knows!'

'Sonchiriya' speaks of the consequences of societal bias and the bloody consequences of revenge when human lives become casualty.

One thing that really bothers me is when a young black person speaks or leads a conversation, and afterward a white person says, 'You're really articulate.'

When you read about white athletes these days and white skill possession receivers specifically, one word you'll always find is tough. You'll rarely see explosive, athletic, stuff like that.