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Bias is a pervasive social ill. It is a disease of the individual mind and spirit that infects personal and social and is transferred into interpretations of reality that gets transferred into institutional operations and practice. It invades and infests institutions of law and governance, media and education. In its extreme forms it is alligned to prejudice, racism, nepotism, and translates into corruption, inequity.
Gender Bias
This includes gender inequity and inequalities that become embedded into status quos as accepted practice. It may even perpetuate male privleging and gender violence, as the built-in gender bias in the National Constitution. See television interview with Dr Kris Rampersd on Gender Bias in the Constitution and the Role of the Presidency here.
Dr Kris Rampersad discusses gender inequties and biases in the Constitution and how the Presidency can alter those through promotion of independent thought and actions more at the Academy in the GloCal Knowledge Pot www.krisrampersad.com
Lack of critical thinking and analyses promotes and perpetuates bias. Bias cannot be totally eliminated, but it can be treated by expanding one’s self understanding of perspectives and approaches and in making allowances for freedom of expression that gives air to differences of opinions and views. Inequality is an aide to bias. Bias is the enemy of Independence. The erosion of independent institutions and mechanisms in the Constitution perpetuates bias.
My recent map of the distortion by media misrepresentation of voting patterns fed by biases in political interpretations and misrepresentations by political pundits, honed through deficient critical thinking in academic, thought and opinion leaders and its destructive impact on social inclusion, equity and the practice of democracy itself.
The MultiCultural Face of National Politics is distorted and misrepresented through biases in conditioning and interpretations by political pundits and thought leaders and transferred into policy and decision making. More on critical thinking and development of skills of discernment from the Academy at the GloCaL Knowledge Pot www.krisrampersad.com
I have also often pointed out the ways institutions internalise into practice human biases, as in gender, cultural or ethnic biases.
Bias in the systems of law and governance is therefore anti-democractic. See Democracy Literarily in Encyclopedia Literaria by Dr Kris
Bias is aligned to Sycophancy.
Next: Sycophant Literarily in Encyclopedia Literaria by Dr Kris
Bias
n. orig. biasis – slant, slope: hence, inclination to one side. That which causes the mind to incline toward a particular object or course; inclination, bent, prejudice; a direction diagonal to the woven grain of fabric.
Not in favour of, or a fact that presents a particular politician in a negative light.
Discussion: Bias may have more complex connotations.
This may be illustrated by an anecdote of a recent encounter between a politician and a newspaper editor:
Politician: “I thought your paper was friendly to me?”
Editor: “So it is. What’s the matter?”
Politician: “I made a speech at the dinner last night, and you didn’t print a line of it.”
Editor: “Well, what further proof do you want?”
Politicians may not believe it, but editors and broadcasters may often be doing politicians a favour by not reporting their spoken words, or showing their lack of followers.
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