Is It a Race Issue?

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i think ii might rit anddand it's probably true. We all harbor some kind of generalizations about other people, cause we do that for everything. Stereotypes are a forma huristic. And usually they're not harm fter. They're just generalizations we make about dogs or whatever. But when it comes to people and engender a race, then, you know, tht that's a hot button issue,. because we want a spare society and a just society.

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.