r/MurderedByWords • u/baranzen • Oct 26 '19

Murder Same game, different level

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u/anorexicpig Oct 27 '19

Yeah of course they do. I'd say like 80% of all people are racist, almost 60% of liberals and basically 100% of conservatives. It really just depends on your definition of it. People are really quick to get offended when they get called racist, but if you have implicit biases, you're at least slightly racist. SLIGHTLY. Most people are

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u/Kittens-of-Terror Oct 27 '19

I mean, to not be wouldn't be human. There are natural biases and some prejudice for or against any group of people. Acting on it when it's a status that people in the group were born with or can't change is the problem.

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u/anorexicpig Oct 27 '19

I feel like that isn’t natural though it’s learned... and the fact you feel it’s natural explains everything

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u/Kittens-of-Terror Oct 27 '19 edited Oct 27 '19

I think you misunderstood my statement. When I say groups, I don't explicitly mean ethnicities. Groups could be liberals and conservatives, for example. We have certain biases and expectations of business people, artists and long distance runners. We all have biases and expectations of each of those groups and have a tendency (that is bad) to extrapolate those sentiments and expectations to the individuals of those groups when we we know which group they are a part of. This happens with ethnicity too whether the bias is big or minuscule. Those biases aren't good, and acting on them is when it's actually a bad problem and is racist at least by that point.