Rex Kerr
1 min readJul 29, 2022

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I understand that this is the accepted wisdom of the far left. But my read of the psychological literature is that not seeing color works, and emphasizing racial differences fails in improving how people treat each other.

Emphasizing racial differences feels good because we're intensely tribal creatures, but do you have any evidence to hand that this actually helps?

(Aside from the usual courtesy of paying attention to what people want you to pay attention to. If wearing a yellow hat means in a culture that you are supposed to say, "Nice hat!", then of course not saying so is cause for affront to the wearer.)

(Of course, you have to analyze situations by race in order to detect whether there are implicit biases or structural problems. But when it comes to actually asking people to do things, "pay attention to race" has been mostly a failure, hasn't it? Hiring training based on that tends not to improve bias, yes? Whereas hiring training based on "focus on the job requirements, and ask specific questions relating to the requirements" produces results. Doesn't it?)

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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