The assumption that people who have no relationship to an experience are unbiased and those who do have a relationship are biased is a stupid prejudice. Often direct experience dispels established assumptions about rape, prison, etc..... Wrote about that a few years ago. - ThreadSky

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social • 3 days ago

The assumption that people who have no relationship to an experience are unbiased and those who do have a relationship are biased is a stupid prejudice. Often direct experience dispels established assumptions about rape, prison, etc..... Wrote about that a few years ago.

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meatmechsuit.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is a similar tool to ‘civility’ I think. Designed to discredit and remove rightful feelings, experiences, reactions, dissent.

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social•3 days ago

"We don’t gather our prejudices from our experiences. We gather them from the society around us. Direct experience may dispel them. But one of the social prejudices these bad decisions about journalists and jurors reflect is the idea that the majority, the unaffected, are neutral."

arrozala.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you gather your opinions from your experience, it is ipso facto not prejudice.

alexianafry.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

bobcalder.bsky.social•3 days ago

This reading on empathy and racism has a lot of parallels.
Also one of my fav writers @nberlat.bsky.social .
https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/empathy-doesnt-make-you-less-racist

amosnic.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

chekhovsgundam.bsky.social•2 days ago

The myth of objectivity in journalism is actively killing good journalism. All it does is reinforce the invisibility of privilege, and shut out anyone who would challenge the status quo. It's shit like this that gave us the Cass Report, where no actual experts were involved because of 'bias' 😒

jamieberger.bsky.social•3 days ago

And yet the same people making those claims are the likes of reactionary lawmakers who suddenly strut ally status because they have “first-hand” experience with homophobia after their child comes out.

tea-nerd-22.bsky.social•3 days ago

The notion that anyone is unbiased is ridiculously wrong. So anyone that starts from a position of "I am unbiased" is already being disingenuous. This is just another way that people attempt to silence oppressed and/or traumatized groups.

meticulous-monty.bsky.social•2 days ago

beautifully articulated

hanganeeg.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Wrote about that a few years ago"....😂

Shakespeare: 'I've fooled around with poetry'

Anyone unfamiliar, get your hands on Mother of all Questions, Men Explain Things to me and anything else written by Rebecca (bad mofo) Solnit

fromhollowlogs.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wonder if the association of harm with bias is related to the prevalence of victim blaming in our culture -- as if suffering is contagious, and sufferers should be shunned.

(something something Fisher King's wound taints the whole land ... shut up, Scott.)

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