https://contemporaryracism.org/257/choosing-to-be-racist/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/257/choosing-to-be-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:36:38 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=257#comment-187 I will take the politicians way out and say I believe both are accurate. I think we all have all learned our associations based on our individual backgrounds. The choice is what we do with the knowledge once our eyes have been opened.

]]> https://contemporaryracism.org/257/choosing-to-be-racist/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:07:17 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=257#comment-35 This is really interesting. Personally, I don’t think we have a choice. I think that what we learn as children in addition to what we see on the media shapes the way we think. We have automatic thoughts when we see individuals and these stigmas are at the front of our minds. This is the reason that racism is so hard to combat in the first place: we don’t choose to believe the things we believe or feel the things we feel.

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