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Now that you have read a bit about racism, discrimination, white privilege, answer the following questions.
How has the color of your skin, or gender identity either given you privileges or difficulties in your community or schooling?
Describe a time when you were silent about any form of discrimination you witnessed anywhere.
Why were you silent?
For the initial post, address the following:
• State your position on one of these issues – are you for, against, or neutral?
Explain why. Avoid vagueness or ambiguity in your response. Make your
position very clear.
• Examine how you have formed that opinion.
o How well do you think you know the facts?
o Do you know and understand statistical information that applies to the
issue?
o Do you think you have formed your opinion using only System-1
thinking, or have you applied System-2?
o What part have heuristics, cognitive bias, and dominance structuring
played in how you have formed your opinions?
The initial post is not about how “correct” your position is; it is about how you arrived at
your position on the issue. This discussion requires application of metacognition –
thinking about how you think.
In an effort to clarify issues concerning racism, five fallacies were developed. Identify and discuss each fallacy. How has each fallacy helped with our understanding of racism (310)? Also, how did Native Americans (the Powhatan tribe) assist the first English settlement (310)