Hillary’s Talk of ‘Implicit Bias’ Should Scare Every American

Hillary’s Talk of ‘Implicit Bias’ Should Scare Every American | National Review

by David French September 28, 2016 2:43 PM @DavidAFrench

This is a road we don’t want to travel.

You’re guilty and you don’t know it. Sure, you think you’re a decent person who treats people fairly, judging them on the content of their character and not the color of the skin. But let’s face it: You’re deluded. Especially if you happen to be white, you’re biased and you don’t even know it. You’re unaware of your own privilege, and of the extent to which your beliefs, speech, and even mannerisms oppress people of color. It’s time to confess. It’s time to be re-educated. It’s time to rid yourself of your false consciousness.

This is the message of the modern campus radical, of the diversity trainer, and, increasingly, of the Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton.

Like many of the most dangerous progressive ideas, “implicit bias” or “unconscious racism” seems reasonable enough at first glance: Aren’t we all shaped by our environment and upbringing to make snap judgments about people? Aren’t those judgments often wrong? Couldn’t we all use exposure to different cultures and ideas to help us get past preconceived notions and casual bigotries? What could be wrong with that?

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Beaudreaux said:

I saw this article's title in the list that RealClearPolitics.com puts up twice a day in their news feed for it's viewers to click on and read. The title was click bait, and it obviously worked on me, however, the article itself made me think, and it, IMHO, goes directly to what our country is struggling with when it comes to the social conventions surrounding race - should we expect people to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices, their own lives, or are we as a society oppressing whole segments of our society due to "implicit bias" and/or "systemic racism" and the actions of people that end up getting themselves shot by the police, or attacked in a drug buy gone bad, or their kids failing in school, or their neighborhood being crime ridden, or their inability to find or keep a job is the fault, the blame, and the responsibility of everyone else and they are not to be held responsible (or shot) when they have a gun in their hands and do not follow police instructions to drop the gun (as just one example)? I'm just so tired of being told continually that the problems of others is due to the simple fact that I exist in some heretofore unseen to me fantasy world of privileged. Every single person is a product of their choices in life - not some malevolent system of oppression that we are all unwittingly a part, and the only ones that can see it are the progressive SJW's, progressive politicians gaming the SJW vote, and of course, those people that want to blame their life's problems on something other then themselves and their own choices in life.

Are there problems in or society with racism, bigotry, and hate? Sure, of course, we see it every day. Is it at the level of influence over other people's lives that it creates all the ill's that they blame it for? Hell no.

Anyway, here's the article:

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Beaudreaux said:

I saw this article's title in the list that RealClearPolitics.com puts up twice a day in their news feed for it's viewers to click on and read. The title was click bait, and it obviously worked on me, however, the article itself made me think, and it, IMHO, goes directly to what our country is struggling with when it comes to the social conventions surrounding race - should we expect people to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices, their own lives, or are we as a society oppressing whole segments of our society due to "implicit bias" and/or "systemic racism" and the actions of people that end up getting themselves shot by the police, or attacked in a drug buy gone bad, or their kids failing in school, or their neighborhood being crime ridden, or their inability to find or keep a job is the fault, the blame, and the responsibility of everyone else and they are not to be held responsible (or shot) when they have a gun in their hands and do not follow police instructions to drop the gun (as just one example)? I'm just so tired of being told continually that the problems of others is due to the simple fact that I exist in some heretofore unseen to me fantasy world of privileged. Every single person is a product of their choices in life - not some malevolent system of oppression that we are all unwittingly a part, and the only ones that can see it are the progressive SJW's, progressive politicians gaming the SJW vote, and of course, those people that want to blame their life's problems on something other then themselves and their own choices in life.

Are there problems in or society with racism, bigotry, and hate? Sure, of course, we see it every day. Is it at the level of influence over other people's lives that it creates all the ill's that they blame it for? Hell no.

Anyway, here's the article:

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Beaudreaux said:

I saw this article's title in the list that RealClearPolitics.com puts up twice a day in their news feed for it's viewers to click on and read. The title was click bait, and it obviously worked on me, however, the article itself made me think, and it, IMHO, goes directly to what our country is struggling with when it comes to the social conventions surrounding race - should we expect people to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices, their own lives, or are we as a society oppressing whole segments of our society due to "implicit bias" and/or "systemic racism" and the actions of people that end up getting themselves shot by the police, or attacked in a drug buy gone bad, or their kids failing in school, or their neighborhood being crime ridden, or their inability to find or keep a job is the fault, the blame, and the responsibility of everyone else and they are not to be held responsible (or shot) when they have a gun in their hands and do not follow police instructions to drop the gun (as just one example)? I'm just so tired of being told continually that the problems of others is due to the simple fact that I exist in some heretofore unseen to me fantasy world of privileged. Every single person is a product of their choices in life - not some malevolent system of oppression that we are all unwittingly a part, and the only ones that can see it are the progressive SJW's, progressive politicians gaming the SJW vote, and of course, those people that want to blame their life's problems on something other then themselves and their own choices in life.

Are there problems in or society with racism, bigotry, and hate? Sure, of course, we see it every day. Is it at the level of influence over other people's lives that it creates all the ill's that they blame it for? Hell no.

Anyway, here's the article:

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ocean515 said:

I completely agree with your conclusion. The American people are being played. The evidence is clear for those willing to make an objective effort to find it.

The PC agenda is part of this effort. As are "safe spaces" and trigger words like the massively insulting "deplorable" comments from Hillary Clinton.

Concern is met with accusation designed to destroy anyone voicing it.

This is the Progressive Global Social/Economic Justice game plan. Even the EPA has joined in this manipulation and obfuscation via it's Environmental Justice initiative.

Hillary Clinton understands what is going on while it's likely most of her supporters have no clue.

It is most dangerous, and it is cause for significant concern.

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TheGoverness said:

I'd have read this comment fully, but unfortunately I was triggered by it.

I must retreat to my Space of Safeness.

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Beaudreaux said:

I saw this article's title in the list that RealClearPolitics.com puts up twice a day in their news feed for it's viewers to click on and read. The title was click bait, and it obviously worked on me, however, the article itself made me think, and it, IMHO, goes directly to what our country is struggling with when it comes to the social conventions surrounding race - should we expect people to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices, their own lives, or are we as a society oppressing whole segments of our society due to "implicit bias" and/or "systemic racism" and the actions of people that end up getting themselves shot by the police, or attacked in a drug buy gone bad, or their kids failing in school, or their neighborhood being crime ridden, or their inability to find or keep a job is the fault, the blame, and the responsibility of everyone else and they are not to be held responsible (or shot) when they have a gun in their hands and do not follow police instructions to drop the gun (as just one example)? I'm just so tired of being told continually that the problems of others is due to the simple fact that I exist in some heretofore unseen to me fantasy world of privileged. Every single person is a product of their choices in life - not some malevolent system of oppression that we are all unwittingly a part, and the only ones that can see it are the progressive SJW's, progressive politicians gaming the SJW vote, and of course, those people that want to blame their life's problems on something other then themselves and their own choices in life.

Are there problems in or society with racism, bigotry, and hate? Sure, of course, we see it every day. Is it at the level of influence over other people's lives that it creates all the ill's that they blame it for? Hell no.

Anyway, here's the article:

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Fearandloathing said:

I have read this article fully, but unfortunately found it extrapolated bull****. I must retire to my den of sanity.

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Beaudreaux said:

I saw this article's title in the list that RealClearPolitics.com puts up twice a day in their news feed for it's viewers to click on and read. The title was click bait, and it obviously worked on me, however, the article itself made me think, and it, IMHO, goes directly to what our country is struggling with when it comes to the social conventions surrounding race - should we expect people to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices, their own lives, or are we as a society oppressing whole segments of our society due to "implicit bias" and/or "systemic racism" and the actions of people that end up getting themselves shot by the police, or attacked in a drug buy gone bad, or their kids failing in school, or their neighborhood being crime ridden, or their inability to find or keep a job is the fault, the blame, and the responsibility of everyone else and they are not to be held responsible (or shot) when they have a gun in their hands and do not follow police instructions to drop the gun (as just one example)? I'm just so tired of being told continually that the problems of others is due to the simple fact that I exist in some heretofore unseen to me fantasy world of privileged. Every single person is a product of their choices in life - not some malevolent system of oppression that we are all unwittingly a part, and the only ones that can see it are the progressive SJW's, progressive politicians gaming the SJW vote, and of course, those people that want to blame their life's problems on something other then themselves and their own choices in life.

Are there problems in or society with racism, bigotry, and hate? Sure, of course, we see it every day. Is it at the level of influence over other people's lives that it creates all the ill's that they blame it for? Hell no.

Anyway, here's the article:

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joG said:

It is certain that we all have sets if implicit bias unless I am missing something. Why, even science works under paradigms. What seems dangerous is to allow anyone to determine which bias should be branded and punished and which is good.

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the_recruit said:

No one is punishing people for their implicit biases. Implicit biases are not within our control by definition. We cannot be responsible for them in that way. But this doesn't mean we shouldn't notice how these biases influence ourselves and the world or consider whether these effects should be addressed in some way.

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Beaudreaux said:

...should we expect people to take responsibility for their own actions, their own choices, their own lives, or are we as a society oppressing whole segments of our society due to "implicit bias" and/or "systemic racism"...

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joG said:

Where it becomes interesting, is where one group with an implicit bias meets one of another bias. Then both are confronted with a different take and should rethink, which neither usually does.

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