This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice
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151. INSTITUTIONALLY AFRAID - On The Importance Of Acknowledging Institutional Prejudice — Philosophy UNLEASHED
When the prejudice is institutional, not merely the result of bad actors and bad actions, one doesn’t even have to intend to be prejudiced to be complicit in prejudice. Philosophy about the Casey Report, policing, schooling, and institutional prejudice.