Notes: Fairness as identical treatment, fairness as providing equal opportunity to everyone. We can’t fix past unfairness by just being unfair now the other way.
Fact 1: Multiple ways of viewing fairness.
Fact 2: Equality doesn’t mean justice.
- Define justice: Justice to me is providing people with a fair opportunity when they are working hard to provide themselves with an opportunity. For example if someone is working hard to improve their lifestyle they should be provided with a opportunity to improve their lifestyle.
2. What kind of bias is being demonstrated by the engineering and technological failures described by these articles? How could these problems have been avoided?: The bias that is being demonstrated here is racial and sexual bias. These problems could have been avoided by accounting for all different types of people.
3. Which of these iterations of racism are about feelings? Which are about action? What is racism? What defines the philosophy of antiracism?: Individual racism is about feelings, while Interpersonal racism and Institutional racism are action based. Racism is treating a specific race unjustly. the philosophy of antiracism is becoming aware of race and racial inequalities in every aspect of our lives.
4. What obligation do you have to your fellow Orediggers to stop racist and biased behavior on campus? Is this a personal issue, an institutional issue, or both? How do these stories demonstrate or reflect the types of biases and racisms described above?: I am obligated to provide a welcoming and accepting environment for all races. I believe that this issue involves both personal and institutional racism. The stories show how sometimes the racism is purely just on a personal level with an individual, however there are some instances where it is institutional.
Connection: A connection to this topic would be the institutional racism connected with health insurance in the medical field. people could discriminate based on insurance status and generally this does not benefit people of color.
Source: https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/institutional-racism.html
