{"id":2483,"date":"2017-08-14T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:51:23","slug":"implicit-bias-is-the-new-original-sin-ricochet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Bias is the New Original Sin \u00a0|\u00a0 Ricochet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/447795\/implicit-bias-is-the-new-original-sin\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/intersectionality-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Thanks to US immigration policy and the forward progression of time, there are many people, white and otherwise, who now live in America and can legitimately claim that they had absolutely nothing to do with the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow, because they weren\u2019t here while these things were going on and aren\u2019t related to anyone who was. So, there needs to be a myth that proves that racism is just part of man\u2019s fallen nature. The Old Testament has Eve eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge; Science\u2122 has the Implicit Association Test.<\/p>\n<p>There are actually multiple Implicit Association Tests (you can try them out <a href=\"https:\/\/implicit.harvard.edu\/implicit\/takeatest.html\">here<\/a>, if you like), but the first one is the \u201cRace IAT\u201d, which claims to show that Americans implicitly associate \u201cEuropean Americans\u201d with \u201cGood concepts\u201d and \u201cAfrican Americans\u201d with \u201cBad concepts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I took two of these tests. Basically, the results simply measured my response time. Since I&#8217;m right-handed, my right-hand response times (faster) showed I&#8217;m a racist. Hardly scientific.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/447795\/implicit-bias-is-the-new-original-sin\/\">Implicit Bias is the New Original Sin \u00a0|\u00a0 Ricochet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to US immigration policy and the forward progression of time, there are many people, white and otherwise, who now live in America and can legitimately claim that they had absolutely nothing to do with the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow, because they weren\u2019t here while these things were going on and aren\u2019t related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Implicit Bias is the New Original Sin \u00a0|\u00a0 Ricochet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,75,88,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-education-higher-ed","category-liberals","category-racism","category-war-on-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}