Quotes About Bias

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

the human mind is not an objective recorder of information . . .

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Not everyone can be equally right, Harry." "But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong," I said.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

It's like gender trumps ideas

For people of faith and conscience, these issues about implicit racial bias and the realities of white privilege in our society are not just political matters; they are moral and religious questions.

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of

People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of it.

Privilege is something else. Privilege is a judgment. Privilege is an opinion. Privilege is an accusation.

I WAS trained to distrust other people's versions, but we go with what we have. We triangulate the coverage. Handicap for bias. Figure in leanings, predilections, the special circumstances which change the spectrum in which any given observer will see a situation. Consider what filter is on the lens. So to speak.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. [ Existence (1975)]

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power…and who has access to it.

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction.

People cannot have an opinion without being labeled a 'hater!' That is complete and utter BS!

He will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, often at the expense of either truth or understanding.

Your known by guys for being pretty and girls hate you for it.

Those who are once found to be bad are presumed to be so forever.

People don't always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I'm afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not possibly be as good as that done by a man.

What reeducation had taught me was that dedicated communists were like dedicated capitalists, incapable of nuance.

I always assume a man is at least a latent homosexual until proven otherwise. In any case, you can't blame a gay for trying, he said, smiling a smile utterly unlike my own.

Racist love is still racist.