Word: biased
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fundamental discord is not over quotas but over the aptitude of those classed as racial minorities. Non-"Anglos" may not typically be tapped to run FORTUNE 500 companies or manage professional sports teams, but the reason -- many whites quietly believe -- has less to do with racial bias than with the failure of such groups to measure up. Those sentiments are, of course, rarely voiced in polite society. When they are (as by the likes of former Los Angeles Dodgers vice president Al Campanis, who observed that blacks lack "necessities"), condemnation is quick and merciless. Americans, after all, draw little pleasure...
...seen as not much better. Obviously, if minority citizens are fundamentally flawed it is better to discriminate against them than against whites. Even if in the process a few deserving minorities are pushed aside, the meritocracy's essential integrity is maintained. To countless whites, such a rationalization of racial bias is morally defensible -- while naked racism...
...describe the difference in views as a disagreement over quotas is to deny the obvious impact of racial bias on American thought. White complacency about discrimination is not derived from mere opposition to preference programs. It is an example of how stereotypes, as they interact with a belief in the meritocracy, add up to a firm conviction that members of racial minorities deserve no better than they...
...also wonder what kind of effect seeing a man die would have on my views on the death penalty. I'm not usually one to waffle about my opinions, but to be honest, capital punishment is a toughie. I know all the questions--the deterrence arguments, the racial bias arguments, the law-and-order arguments, the what-if-we-make-a-mistake arguments, the cruel-and-unusual arguments, the don't-kill-to-show-killing-is-wrong arguments--but I don't have any answers. Maybe the emotional shock of witnessing an execution would convince me that capital punishment...
...situation grew even murkier when the National Research Council reviewed the battery of general-aptitude tests in the wake of the Justice assault. It found the 12-part exam to be bias-free. But the council also found that low GATB scores tend to be less reliable predictors of job success or failure than high marks, a fact that works against blacks and Hispanics. The reviewers recommended some residual race norming while GATB is refined, a process expected to begin soon...