Quotes About Bias

Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

Carstairs is alright, I suppose. If you like that sort." "Oh?" "The taken. The uninterested." "As opposed to… you, Gabriel?" "Well, yes.

In those days, when Indians killed whites, it was a "massacre"; it was a "battle" when whites killed Indians.

People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget.

I just think it's odd how we parse out our empathy," he said. "Why we only have empathy for those who remind us most of ourselves.

Self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Women are programmed to think they're the only screw-up in the universe and men are programmed to think they're the smartest creatures in the universe.

It's as if readers relish white male writers behaving badly but they demand that minority writers must always be good.

One characteristic of racism is that children are treated like adults and adults are treated like children.

Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way the whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy.

There's always sentiment against free nig—against his kind.

Humans appear to have a need for certainty, a motivation to hold on to something rather than to question it. People with a high need for certainty are more prone to stereotypes than others and are less inclined to remember information that contradicts their stereotypes.3

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it was that the woman who slept in his bed would be judged unworthy of his company. Her husband's fans recoiled from the notion that she might have made a significant contribution towards his achievement of greatness. The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained.

une interprétation n'est elle pas assujettie aux émotions de son auteur et à la connaissance ou non du sujet qu'il interprète?

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

The perceptions and pronouncements of human beings are inherently subjective. Every news article is the product of all sorts of highly subjective cultural, nationalistic, and political assumptions. And all journalism serves one faction's interest or another's. The

Anti-Semitism is a cancer

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...} I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

Even the dictionary defines adventurer as "a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures," but adventuress is "a woman who uses unscrupulous means in order to gain wealth or social position.

And I was angry because the media took racism seriously - or pretended to - but with sexism, they rarely bothered even to pretend.

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And

Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.