The White Bear Problem Explains Why Anti-racism Training Doesn’t Work

Pcb21, CC BY-SA 3.0Studies of anti-racism training find it doesn’t work or makes racism worse. The reason seems counter-intuitive to anti-racists: Teaching people to think more about race can make them more racist. But the reason is clear if you remember this old observation:“Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind