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Ralph J. Bunche was by his own admission a man of many predispositions. "I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance," he once said. "I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias against war, a bias for peace. I have a bias which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble...
...points to-society's discrimination in favor of people with high I.Q.'s (and if one replaces the word "race" for "mental abilities" in the syllogism, one easily sees how society also discriminates racially). Herrnstein never questions the fundamental problems of discrimination or social stratification because of this I.Q. bias...
...Greater Bias...
...wonder why Gloria Steinem [Nov. 8] fails to carry her drive for feminine equality to its logical end. While the title "Ms." may well help destroy prejudicial distinctions between married and unmarried women, it still invites the greater bias applied to all women...
...Writer James Mills told of Erdmann's great distress with the criminal court system in the U.S. Mills noted that Erdmann's "disrespect for judges . . . is so strong and all-inclusive that it amounts at times to class hatred." Referring to what he considers judges' unprofessional bias. Erdmann was quoted as saying: "There are so few trial judges who just judge, who rule on questions of law, and leave guilt or innocence to the jury. And Appellate Division judges aren't any better. They're the whores who became madams." Would he like...