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People in organizations running implicit bias trainings - please collaborate with researchers to implement rigorous RCTs evaluating the effects of these programs. Good intentions are not enough!
Let the awesome @jdoleac help you find the right academic partner! She can do quality screening and most will work for free if they can publish the results:
@jenniferdoleac et al. - FYI!
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Orrin Hatch 2018: I don't care if the President's own DOJ has implicated him in felonies. What is a "crime" anyway?

Orrin Hatch 1999: "crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office"
source link for the second excerpt: nytimes.com/1999/02/13/us/…
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The situation in WI is straight out of Levitsky & @dziblatt's How Democracies Die. We rely on norms of mutual toleration and forbearance to ensure the peaceful transfer of power. Violating that compact undermines democracy.
As with Trump, most elite Rs nationwide aren't speaking up in favor of these dangerous norm violations, but they're not willing to break from their party to condemn them either. And so we get a kind of tacit acceptance.
Scholars of democratic erosion know how dangerous this situation can be. Will Rs in other states do the same? Will Ds adopt similar tactics? Will GOP base come to demand a similar approach in future? Once partisan goals trump democratic commitments, everything is on the table.
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The peaceful transfer of power is the core of democracy. The losing side stripping powers from the winning side undermines that compact.
States are serving as laboratories of democratic erosion. Extremely worrisome.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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*sigh*

When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

3/n
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so happy about this episode! for anyone who cares, i wrote an unwieldy tweet storm while i listened to it. heres the thread:
as i said in the pod, i dont care about the morality of individual cops or saying this one or that one is racist or not. the problem isnt morality, its power. "the police are a technology of white supremacy" =/= all cops are pure evil.
ive met cops who are personally decent people 1-on-1 and dont burn crosses on people's lawns. thats irrelevant to whether the police AS AN INSTITUTION function to enforce inequality, and its irrelevant to whether their jobs and authority have good reasons to exist.
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Closing keynote is Alan Cooper — The Oppenheimer moment.

#UXA18
Alan start by letting us know UX Australia is exceptionally run, with great content and Melbourne has lived up to its hype as a wonderful city.

#UXA18
Last year Cooper the consulting company Sue and Alan created was sold and they have been focussing on other things.

#UXA18
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🌟What is “race”?🌟

I hope, by the time you get to the end of this thread, I’ll have convinced you that what we call “race” is actually a social construct that exists solely in the realm of language.

I’ll do that with fancy Jedi mind tricks and pretty pictures.

Let’s do this!
What does “social” mean? Does it just refer to how many friends you have?

That’s part of it, but it’s more about what you have access to as a result of connections with other people. Money. Resources.

Social identity is a sense of self we get through interacting with others.
Okay. So far, so good. So, you said race is socially defined. If that’s true, then how am I white as a function of how people perceive me? I’m white because of a gene that makes me white. I mean, you can think I’m purple, but I’m still white... right?

Not so fast!
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1/ A thread on #ownvoices and #representation as well as allyship, guests, holding babies, writing the other, and assorted issues dealing with POC characters/stories being written by white folks. Nothing super new, just bringing nuanced notions together, reflecting on my views.
2/ America desperately needs a LOT more #ownvoices books. That should be our priority. I've even advocated for a sort of #affirmativeAction in publishing. Agents and editors should be ACTIVELY seeking out POC talent, recruiting, nurturing, publishing.
3/ Especially in kids lit. Only 25% of books for kids feature protags of color. Only 6% are actually written by authors of color. Both of those numbers MUST CHANGE, but the second is the biggest problem. Writers of color need to be the main folks writing these stories.
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Start of retweeted thread on implicit bias.
For lay followers: "implicit bias" is routinely presented or interpreted as evidence of prejudice & discrimination. ow.ly/Knw530fywwR
"Implicit bias" was once presumed to be prejudices that people do not even know they hold. Terms like "automatic prejudice" and "unconscious prejudice" were thrown around as if this was well established, which it never was and still isn't.
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