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VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism (usatoday.com)
More than $8 billion a year is spent on diversity training which a Harvard professor believes is largely ineffective. So later this year the NFL will also try using new VR scenarios from Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab. "We want to be known as the best place to work," says NFL vice president Troy Vincent," while Dropbox's head of diversity says she's also had conversations about eliminating bias in job interviews by conducting "blind" interviews using avatars. The Stanford lab's scenarios place users in unsettling situations -- for example, angry harassment by white avatars while the user's avatar is black. "I'm not saying, 'Put on a VR goggle and you've solved racism'," says the Stanford lab's director. "But I'm optimistic it can help."
Calling an opponent a sexist or a racist are sure fire ways to ostracize them and shut them up. Ironic the left is so opposed to bullying then bullies people it disagrees with and calls them names. We're not all the same but deserve the same opportunities, nothing more, nothing less. Stop with the name-calling.
Is not being racist yourself, which you are if you support the so called "social justice", given the fact the thing basically make you segregate the general population by gender, race and sexuality, instead of taking care of actual individual problems like poverty, lack of education and oppression by governments and big corporations etc..
There is no such thing as "positive racism".
if you are seeking to have diversity occur then you are actively discriminating based on a prejudice which results in racism, sexism, ageism, etc. everyone needs to stop this "diversity" bullshit and hire people based on their qualifications.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Elite white guys thinking that little computer models of black people will help increase empathy for the latter is, frankly, insulting.
Actually, the idea is that they are putting you in the role of a black person (or whatever) to try to show you what the experience is like. I think it's a solid idea. Even a book can do that for you, but not everyone experiences immersion while reading. VR is immersive by nature.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Trump says thing that are textbook misogyny and racism. It's as if he is literally getting them form a textbook somewhere, in order to build up his anti-establishment anti-political-correctness platform.
Textbook racism is saying that some race is inferior. It's saying that Blacks have to use separate drinking fountains, have to ride the back of the bus, and can't join the country club.
Textbook mysogyny is saying that women are inferior to men. It's saying they shouldn't go to college, shouldn't vote, and should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
Trump has made no such pronouncements, doesn't align with *any* of the textbook norms, and his lifes history shows the exact *opposite* of the textbook examples.
In other words, he's normal.
But you are a clear example of what masquerades as political discourse. You are writing as knowledgeable about racism and mysogyny, knowing that people won't think critically about what you write.
People are trained from birth to take in information without regard to accuracy, and you are abusing that weakness to your own ends.
You are a textbook example of a shill: You're trying to fool people to promote your hidden agenda.