By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--March 22, 2015
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A top U.S. Forest Service executive told his employees to probe their own “unconscious bias” on everything from race and sexuality to the disabled and fat people, asking them to use an unproven assessment tool to explore their feelings. The online test, which Forest Management Director Bryan Rice urged other agency directors to use as well, specifically warns of problems when it is taken “outside of the safeguards of a research institution.” Users also are told to be careful about how far to go in interpreting the results. Mr. Rice, in a March 11 email to his employees, also instructed them to read a New York Times piece titled “Straight talk for white men,” which argues that white men benefit from unconscious bias. He also shared a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that shows managers are more likely to hire those with a “very white sounding name” over those with a “very African American sounding name.” In an email to The Washington Times, Mr. Rice said he believed the tests would help build a better workplace for his team.So get to work, everyone. If you want to hug a tree, you're going to have to hug your own failings first. After all, if you can't acknowledge your own biases, how can you ever hope to acknowledge ...ummm ...something related to Douglas firs? Who knows. This is so insane we don't know where to begin. Oh, and of course:
Mr. Rice did not respond to questions about which tests he took, nor what biases were exposed by those assessments.Obviously, the politically correct left has (for decades) relied on race-baiting and false accusations of racism to fill their coffers. It's been central to their political candidates, their propaganda, and their media manipulation. If there's an upside here, it's this: The fact that they've been forced to downshift into "unconscious racism" suggests that conscious racism is seriously on the wane. If it wasn't, that's what they would - rightfully - be targeting. The "unconscious racism" canard should serve as evidence that "the race card" isn't quite the earner that it used to be. That's great news for everyone - unless you rely on racial exploitation for political power.
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