[Article] What Does Modern Prejudice Look Like? (npr.org)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/04/22/177455764/What-Does-Modern-Prejudice-Look-Like

Another article! This got me thinking about the whole white male dating Asian women exclusively thread.

It talks about the book (I have no connection to it, by the way) Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. Has anyone read it?

I find what the article says disturbing, but I've seen it happen when I'm observing a given situation in everywhere from the supermarket to a clinic. This whole special privilege that is dependent on prejudice seems to be everywhere because, to my untrained eye, it looks like a survival mechanism. We can't all be forced to think about every action and so many of us are on 'autopilot', or, at the very least, are forced to make sweeping generalisations to get things done in our day-to-day and receive constant feedback, which some respond to while many others do not.

What do you think?

stop doing that thing with "Article" thing with brackets. it doesn't look right.

also, why would we leap to the conclusion that you had some role in a book written by a harvard psychologist? don't you work for travelocity or something?

c21m50nh3x460n is the genuine [Article] alright

is Modern Prejudice a new Fox sitcom or shd i not read that horrible sounding article anyway?

it's a good thing this guy started posting to ilx, i had never thought to read articles before

and by "article" i mean "npr blog post". definitely a little above my reading level

between this and the musicians death watch thread i feel like we're being street-teamed or something somehow

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=41&threadid=69572

"I'm working on something and would like to see what type of list we can come up with."

"working" is doing a lot of work there

i have no connection to it, by the way

It's the high-altitude surveillance drone of ILX. xp

seriously thinking of pitching a Til Death Us Do Part/All in the Family update called Modern Prejudice now

(i wrote the songs)

I stopped trolling boards a while ago.

It's funny because I am such a bookish person. But this is the way I wind down and relax. I frequent other boards where I have extremely highbrow conversations (as in, how to solve real world problems through technology, Big Data, computers, etc.). Users are given 'karma' points and everyone's comment is either downvoted or upvoted. If you troll, there is this thing called hellban. It is the most saddest thing, but it works. A hellbanned user is actually banned from the message board without the user himself knowing. So, every post he makes is invisible to everyone except to the user himself. This means that the hellbanned user will troll all he wants and no one will ever notice him, and he lives his life thinking people are reading and he gets some satisfaction from it, without realising his comments are completely invisible to everyone. They have very strict rules on what you cannot post and what type of comment is not accepted.

I've learnt that not all boards are conducive to all types of conversations. Just stick with what people like to talk about. Suggest a topic, if no one replies, that means no one is interested, and just move on to another message board where you can have those types of conversations.

No need to be a bully.

― kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, March 9, 2013 6:08 PM (1 month ago)

please ilx implement hellbans

[Question] Why is it that every time I'm walking down the street, somebody wants to stop me...

Dylan, because people seem to leap to the strangest conclusions on ILX.

And sorry, the Article-thing is done so you know it is not my thread title, but that it is a discussion on an article. So if you care not to use ILX this way, you can just ignore it.

Also, not sure what's with the 'hadn't thought of reading articles before' comment. It's an article I wanted to share and have a discussion on, not because I think they are above people's reading level or that people don't read articles. That response sounds so out of the blue.

And yes! Hellban would be awesome.

give me your top 5 ilx prospective hellban list, ch

omg maybe I've been hellbanned & I just don't know it D:

can... can anyone hear me?

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...Peeeeennniiiiiiisssss

wow being hellbanned is pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpFP9600qfA

so I'm the only chump who read the article?

Nah, I read it. Typical NPR guilt-trip-your-ideal-reader bullshit.

I read the [Article]

it was the best blog-length summary of a challopsy pop-psych book i read today.

I dunno if its challopsy but it isn't very provocative or insightful imho

At Crimson Hexagon, we don’t use the word “vision” lightly.

I frequent other boards where I have extremely highbrow conversations (as in, how to solve real world problems through technology, Big Data, computers, etc.).

[Item] Spinning Newspaper Injures Printer

fuck knows i put on my smoking jacket and splash some cognac in a snifter when it's time to talk computers

Hellbanning is or has been used at sites such as Something Awful, Fark, and Hacker News.

i read the title, figured it'd be some kind of bigotsplaining thing and passed

Some fucking bland voice telling you that discrimination is part of the human condition, probably how the nazis started.

There are lots of unpleasant or downright evil things that are part of the human condition, but that is not to say you can't do anything to mitigate them or you shouldn't try to.

generally weird responses itt. the article isn't all that surprising or insightful, but it slots well into ongoing ILX conversations about privilege, invisible and otherwise. the general gist (a sort of "soft exclusion" can result from the way we target our most generous and compassionate gestures) is otm and not often discussed.

wait, is c21m50nh3x460n a refugee goon from SA and he just took the long way around instead of saying that?

[Remix]

lol

ch Should bestiality be illegal? If so, why?

can i get you to offer your opinion there?