Yen: If there's any differences between blacks and whites anywhere, the number of c os or congressmen, or whatever, then the assumption is that those differences can only be explained by some kind of racism. But even there, i see, for example, there used to be the problem of red lining, right? Banks giving e home ownership loans based on these red lines drawn around these neighborhoods that avoided african american communities. So it weso when somebody says, well, but it's still there,. It's lie where exactly. And we just point the problem and if it's illegal, we should change that, right? If it's truly discriminatory, then change it
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.