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[quote=Anonymous]Okay hang on, 20:25. Sure, everyone has unconscious bias. But imagine a thought experiment in which multiple employees (some white, some black, some male, some female) did exactly the same problematic thing. Say they each raised their voice in a staff meeting and rolled their eyes dismissively during a more junior person's presentation, and they each ignored the same company rules about how to do some particular thing. Say the same supervisor sent the exact same email to each of them, saying they need to watch how they interact with staff and that they need to stop ignoring company rules. In this thought experiment, literally everything in the employees behavior and the supervisor's email is identical. The only variable is the race and gender of the employee being taken to task.

None of the employees likes receiving this negative feedback. All of them feel it's unfair and mean. The only black female employee asserts that she would not have received this negative feedback but for the supervisors's unconscious racial bias.

In this scenario, she is just plain wrong.[/quote]

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