Grating Expectations

Greenville, North Carolina

Campus Reform:

Mandatory diversity course not effective, prof discovers

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After assessing the bias of students before and after the course—using prompts such as “a woman should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers” and “if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites”—Stacey found that the course hadn’t altered students’ attitudes towards race or gender.

That’s because she has a flawed understanding of “bias.” What most people call “common sense” and “truth,” she calls “bias.” And she wonders why her semester-long propaganda can’t disabuse students of it.

You’ll note that the purpose of all this is that the course is a requirement for the school’s criminal justice major, because:

Although the course was ineffective, Stacey hopes that “given the importance of reducing bias in policing,” future courses will chart a new path, proposing that “future research should examine the content of such courses to determine if there is a formula that works.”

That’s because of another piece of common sense and truth that a few people call bias, a truth that I just wrote about in my last post about St. Louis’s dindu box, that the cops go (or are sent) where the crime is, and the crime is where the dindus are.