Ask A Genius 278 – The Future for Kindness (4)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/09/02
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Rick Rosner: According to the definition of racism, basically making judgments based on people’s appearances and what you know about them, whether or not you act on those judgments or discriminate. That’s one form of racism is making judgments.
A different definition of racism is to actually make, be mean, be bad to people based on race, and Lance was throwing out the first definition altogether, might as well disregard, because you can’t tell what people are thinking, the brain is a black box. So, even 80 years after behaviorism some people will resort to black box arguments.
And there will be different degrees of black-box-ism in the future when people try to make things easy for themselves, by saying we just can’t know what is going on inside the heads of various entities. That’s kind of in my mind a bullshit excuse. The end.
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