Quotes About Bias

In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.

I think in industries riddled with bias, you tend to hire women only if their previous work is very masculine, which is hilarious given that this is not how male directors are chosen.

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.

I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or to the mainstream media, whether it's in print or in broadcast. And I think they'd be shocked and disappointed to see some of the bias that exists in some of the stories that don't get told - or the manner in which they are told.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

As long as you are in that white privilege bubble, you don't need to see the world differently. You don't need to see the world through the eyes of minorities or women.

Obviously white privilege is a thing, 1000%.

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.

It's like do White privilege exist? Absolutely. In the case of passing judgment, you have to make sure that you're passing judgement on the right person.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

Most of us think that we are 'better than average' in most things. We are also 'miscalibrated,' meaning that our sense of the probability of events doesn't line up with reality. When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.

Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

People believe that criticism should be objective, whatever that means, but I really don't understand what people mean by that. I guess if you're doing sonata-allegro procedure analysis, you can be objective for a page or two. But in pop? Really hard.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.

That's one of my pet peeves, that big guys apparently don't have an I.Q. above 50 in the eyes of audiences and producers.

I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.