Unconscious Discrimination Quotes

A lot of times, when parents overdiscipline their children, especially when they're queer, their intention isn't to hurt them. They think they're saving their children from harm. But they don't realize that they're causing harm, that they're doing to their kids exactly what they're afraid of the world doing to them.

The soft bigotry of low expectations

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

You sit men and women down and give them a maths test, and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against.

We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

Sometimes people can be offensive and not even realize it.