Comments below. On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:34 PM, James Bonilla <[email protected]> wrote:
> Comments below. > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:23 PM, John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> I'd encourage you to keep that in mind. Also, keep silklist >> discussions on >> >> silklist, please. >> >> >> >> Udhay >> >> >> > >> > I have seen all too often that one can never assume goodwill. I will do >> so >> > -- since you request me to do it. >> >> >> When I was relatively new to this list, I responded somewhat stridently >> to a post that seemed to me insensitive if not downright hostile, ad >> hominem, belligerent. >> >> Udhay and/or others reminded me of the “assume goodwill” rule of this >> list. >> >> As it turns out, I had mostly misunderstood the fellow who made the post >> that I had found so objectionable. I don’t say that we’ve since become >> good friends or anything like that, but in that instance I was about 84.343 >> % in the wrong and he was about 67.987% in the right. >> >> Yes, the math can get a little tricky, but the main lesson that I took >> away from it was that I was mostly in the wrong and that if I wanted to >> stay on this list I should learn to abide by “assume goodwill”. >> >> Which, I’m still here, what what? >> >> jrs >> >> >> If I may ask: was the other person non-white? > > I have been doing some research on how different races are perceived on > the Internet. What I have found has been profoundly shocking to me. What I > have generally found is that when there is a battle between a white person > and a non-white person on the Internet, the non-white person is perceived > to be "in the wrong" -- and this is irrespective of what the facts are. > > I wouldn't be surprised if the other person, thus far unnamed, was found > "in the wrong" - IF that other person was non-white. White people, somehow, > seem to have this advantage. > > And this is due to implicit biases, which happens to be a reasonably well > studied area of psychology. > > - 007 > In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the other person was simply kicked off this list. - 007
