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Originally Posted by loramin
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If, hypothetically, the following was true:
A) there is in fact an incredibly pervasive and deep-rooted set of pattern matching algorithms in our brain, left over from a time long ago in our evolution
B) these "algorithms" are responsible for institutional racist thinking (to put it another way, seeing a person of ___ color on TV doing ____ does convince your brain that in general people of ____ color do ____, because those pattern matching bits aren't sophisticated enough to tell what's on TV apart ... because they evolved long before TV existed)
C) that a person's thinking can be changed by changing the pattern inputs
what kind of proof would convince you of it?
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If this is the case, why do we see most racism in areas of greatest exposure?
Why do good behaviors of ordinary people not effect this change?