Quotes About Bias

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white.

I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.

Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and that of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life. Excellence in thought, however, must be systematically cultivated.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

With very rare exceptions, textbook after textbook adopts the same mythology. If middle and high school students are being taught a false history, is it any wonder that they come to believe that African Americans are segregated only because they don't want to marry or because they prefer to live only among themselves? Is it any wonder that they grow up inclined to think that programs to ameliorate ghetto conditions are simply undeserved handouts?

There is no such thing as a neutral educational process

History is painted by the winners.

We are clever; you are cunning. We support freedom fighters; you support terrorists. We set up holding centers; you set up concentration camps. We strategically withdraw; you retreat. We are religious; you are fanatic. We are determined; you are pig-headed. There are literally thousands of words that fall into good-when-I-do-it-bad-when-you-do doublets. Most people are not skilled in detecting doublespeak. Dirty

compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral and have a tendency to form stereotypical views of outsiders.

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it's a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I'm biased.

If it's by an American it's certain to be filth. That's all they write about.

I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.

This story... blasts to pieces our biases and labels with a declaration that God is on everyone's side, extending grace and compassion to everyone, especially those we have most strongly decided are not on God's side.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased—he hates all creative, people equally.

history is loaded with "scientists" jumping to conclusions from superficial evidence.

We are all walled cities shouting at each other over the armaments of our preconceptions.

When there is no existential pressure for quick decisions, only prejudice asserts certitude.

To the Idolator, events really are what they appear to be as coded into his or her favorite reality-tunnel. Any other reality-tunnel, however useful it may appear to others with different purposes and different interests, must then be mad or bad — delusory or fraudulent. Anybody who disagrees with such an Idolator must be, by definition, a loony or a liar.

Like most other experimenters he found only and always what he looked for.