{"id":32412,"date":"2019-10-21T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=32412"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:38:44","slug":"why-is-no-one-immune-to-having-racial-biases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/why-is-no-one-immune-to-having-racial-biases\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is no one immune to having racial biases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just put this here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXuSnyx-2wU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Racism is a phenomenon that emerges from our individual lived experiences and the culture in which we grow up and participate in as adults. A humanistic perspective or a logical mind does not obviate biases in how we know things, and thus, how we perceive or perform as actors in it.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropologist Greg Laden will discuss North American racism as a phenomenon in science and society, its history, and how it is maintained. How do racial, or similar, biases form at the individual and societal level? How are they affected, or not, by societal fixes, great speeches, or education? How can Humanists be better humanists by grappling with this difficult area of human behavior?<\/p>\n<p>Greg Laden is a biological anthropologist, educator, and science writer. His PhD work (at Harvard) was with the Efe Pygmies of the PR Congo, and he has contributed to research on the key features of human evolution, the initial chimp-human split, and the rise of our genus Homo. More recently, Laden studies, speaks, and writes about climate change and race and racism. He is working on a book on falsehoods we know and love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just put this here: Racism is a phenomenon that emerges from our individual lived experiences and the culture in which we grow up and participate in as adults. A humanistic perspective or a logical mind does not obviate biases in how we know things, and thus, how we perceive or perform as actors in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/why-is-no-one-immune-to-having-racial-biases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is no one immune to having racial biases?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5046],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot-from-2019-10-21-17-37-34.png?fit=513%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8qM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32414,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32412\/revisions\/32414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}