leeisstillawake

closet-keys:

Whenever I’m explaining implicit bias to someone I use that scene from the first Men In Black movie where everyone’s going through that “target practice” test and just immediately assumes they’re supposed to be shooting the aliens. But Will Smith’s character hesitates, thinks through what the actual threat is, shoots the little blonde girl, and then gets the job.

it’s great cause when he’s questioned about that decision by his interviewer, he even talks through the process of acknowledging his own implicit bias and then using actual evidence to judge whether that first instinct was correct (”well at first I thought… but then I noticed…”) 

leeisstillawake