Quotes About Bias

Even with liberal white people, one could go only so far, and with average white people one could barely go anywhere.

People are easily deceived—their good and kindly hearts believe it all implicitly, without ever remembering the rule about hearing both sides before we form an opinion.

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Ne pas aimer les femmes, chez un homme, c'est une attitude. Ne pas aimer les hommes, chez une femme, c'est une pathologie.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.

People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate.

news is never all the news, only what they want to show you

Men seemed to assume that because they could change their own oil and hook up a TV by themselves, they were naturally superior to women.

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

They didn't think black people were necessarily good, don't get me wrong, they just thought everyone—regardless of what color they were—was probably an asshole. And to say you were less of an asshole because your skin was lighter was reprehensible to them. It just made you a bigger asshole.

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

Virtually every news source lists the greater number of Palestinians killed in Arab-Israeli wars in order to depict the Israelis as guilty (of 'disproportionate response'). Had similar reporting taken place during World War II, the Western Allies would have been deemed the villains since Germany and Japan lost far more civilians than America or Britain.

Human beings tend to much more quickly forget the good others have done for them than the bad others have done to them. That's human nature.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser