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Interesting article about Disney with racism and sexism.

Nice sources in this article and interesting analysis.

A comic that explores how people in our society often react differently to young white women and young black women

I work down by Madison where its pretty diverse at a grocery store and I see this happen all the time when consumers come through my line vs. coming through a fellow Latina or African American or Asian cashiers line. The conversations that customers have with cashiers of different race are suprizingly different and can be quite offensive.

This is the Harvard IAT. It reveals some of our unconscious biases. I give this to you so you can see that many of the things we react to are unconscious. This is not to say we are sexist, racist, ageist etc., but to show that society contributes to what we believe and shape many of our perceptions unconsciously. I'll post some Disney videos as well to show how young this training begins. I'd also encourage you to watch the video post "A Girl Like Me" with the Clark Doll studies in it. It begins to answer where ideas of raceism and sexism and stereotypes come from. VERY FEW people score in the neutral ranges on all these tests. I flat out couldn't be more biased on work/gender. I have no idea where that came from. But these are interesting and revealing to take. I hope you will take these.