Is It All Races?

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i agree with you that it needs to be specific. I'm worried about that now with thisd of idea of systemic racism, and that this was all triggered by the george floyd killing. But how can we make a more moral progress in society if you dust say, well, it's all races now? i need to know which cop did what and fire that guy or jail him if he did something illegal. And but again, that's tat's not a popular position at the moment. You know, from what i've read, the implicit associations test is just not, it's just pretty shoddy. We should not be relying on it or basing training on 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.