{"id":176111,"date":"2020-09-03T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/03\/implicit-bias-training-does-not-work\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:44:00","slug":"implicit-bias-training-does-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/03\/implicit-bias-training-does-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Implicit Bias Training Does Not Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another study shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-problem-with-implicit-bias-training\/\">implicit bias training of police does not work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a surprise.  The training was never intended to work, it was intended to do 3 things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It gives the illusion that the powers that they give a damn, and are actually address the problem.<\/li>\n<li>It provides a bullsh%$ job to a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Professional-managerial_class\">Professional Managerial Class<\/a> (PMC) who would otherwise be forced to do something productive.<\/li>\n<li>It comforts the comfortable, and assuages their guilt over their privileged lives without actually addressing the fact that they are beneficiaries of a corrupt system..<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The late Dave Graeber had this whole phenomenon nailed.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to stop cops from being brutal racists, you have to make sure that when they step out of line, they are punished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another study shows that implicit bias training of police does not work. This is not a surprise. The training was never intended to work, it was intended to do 3 things: It gives the illusion that the powers that they give a damn, and are actually address the problem. It provides a bullsh%$ job &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,368,387,398],"class_list":["post-176111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}