Geez this thread moves fast. Don't y'all have jobs?
Sure it does, if the claim is that the bias is generated by the institutional popularity of soccer in American society. The popularity is causing the bias, which is then reflected again the funding, which perpetuates the popularity.
No, actually this was not the claim! The claim was that institutions reflect, reinforce, and perpetuate biases, not generate them. American bias against soccer, for the sake of your analogy, is underpinned and perpetuated by its lack of popularity in the US (and, thus, its lack of coverage and fanbase), but biases are born out of early experiences and socio-cultural training.
The truth is, soccer is boring or pretentious or uninteresting or whatever, and for those reasons you hate it. You aren't actually
implicitly biased against it. It's not a great analogy for that reason.
LOL. PH, you are the Spin King on the boards....though you have lots of competition.
And while we are on this "implicit bias" kick, I have a couple of questions:
1) Can black people have implicit bias, too.... or is implicit bias something reserved for only white people?
The answer, of course, is yes: everyone has implicit biases (though not everyone acts on them in the same ways). The difference -- and the crux of the particular argument I'm positing -- is that it is
primarily (but not exclusively) biases against black people that are institutionally- and structurally-enacted in American society.
There are definitely some systemic issues, but I think more often than not the PC crowd confuses aggregation of experience with systemic. If the DMV's licensing regulations are facially neutral, then there is not a systemic issue within the DMV. However, if in practice when aggregating the individual DMV inspectors, 85% of them have had unfavorable experiences with Asian women drivers, then that is an aggregation of experience. If the result is that the inspectors are in general tougher on Asian women drivers, then that is not a systemic issue but rather an aggregate reflection of reality. That doesn't mean the system needs to be changed, it means that Asian women need to be better drivers if they want to change the perception of them.
Yes, the example of racist stereotyping you offer here is not systemic but cultural. That's not always the case. An example of system racism at the DMV -- and I'm just making this up, here -- would be if some of the documentation required to obtain a license, for instance, wasn't equally available to all races because of certain government policies which made more difficult the process of obtaining it.