The curve suggests that Americans are not just more abashed about confessing to prejudice than they used to be, they privately don't find it as amusing. As populations continue shifting from rural to urban living, such prejudices will continue to wane and the moral sphere expand ever toward greater inclusiveness. We're not there yet, but who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to pen an article like this titled Race Doesn't Matter. It really doesn't matter. It shouldn't anyway, and how we judge other people, but it still does in our culture. So, let's continue to push back against that and follow Martin Luther King's dream of judging other people by the content
In this special episode of the podcast, Michael Shermer talks about:
- why race still matters
- why race shouldn’t matter
- racism
- BLM (Black Lives Matter), CRT (Critical Race Theory), DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)
- Anti-bias training
- the Implicit Association Test and if it measures unconscious racism
- race and IQ and why such group differences are environmental and not genetic
- how we can achieve a post-race world.