How to reduce bias in your workplace | The Way We Work, a TED series
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- We all have bias -- especially the unconscious kind -- and it’s preventing us from doing our best work. Gone unchecked, bias can make employees feel resentful, frustrated and silenced, and it can even lead to outright discrimination and harassment. These are the 3 ways to reduce bias at work, according to Just Work co-founders, author Kim Scott and CEO Trier Bryant.
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Yeah, I don't think I'll be watching much of anything by TED anymore. I came here to learn, be motivated, and find inspiration. What I got was virtue-signaling and a "holy than thou" attitude.
Go woke, go broke. 👍
Let's go (Brandon) Ted!
Lol, so much for diversity and equity. Only 4 of the 30 people on the work series are white men (13%). There would be an inquiry if black people were this underrepresented.
Please provide audio-descriptions for yoru videos - they're currently inaccessible to persons who are blind or vision impaired. there's visual information in your videos that aren't accessible. That's "microaggression"
calling those examples "bias" is asinine. If you ask someone to lunch ( a kind gesture) and THEY GET OFFENDED because they are fasting, that is a problem with THEM! They are the ones who need to adjust to living in society and interacting with other people. They need to learn to say "no thanks, I am fasting" and NOT be offended. This idea that normal/friendly/good people need to walk on eggshells as to not offend the most overly sensitive people among us IS INSANE!!!!
It would be more helpful to wave a flag when someone gets offended by something ridiculous (like getting asked out to lunch), and then sit that person in the corner and have everyone explain to them how stupid they are being.
Thank u so much i hoped to find a comment like this
Indeed. How are you supposed to know what religion everyone is? Unless they are implying you should racially profile people and judge what religion they might be before asking them out for lunch? Seems very biased to me.
Yeah, I agree with most stuff here, but some of the examples were just too much. These people seem to care more about not offending people than actually ridding of biases
While I to a large part agrees it does depend on content. To be precise, does the one asking know that the other is fasting? Another important part is how it is asked - as an honest and open question or as an assumption (from a manager).
I hate bias and want to find a way to fix it but I agree with you.
Also, from my experience these methods are used by the strong toward the weak and truly discriminated against.
A privileged, rich, well educated, body able white man is more likely to know and use these methods to strengthen his privilege than any other group.
(I am sure one must be waving a flag right now)
We need to not let any person make up rules and just look at statistics, facts and proof and stop discrimination and bias.
Assuming a woman with darker skin is there to file away papers instead of leading the company is clearly bias.
Asking someone for lunch and being told off because you had no idea what their religion is and what day in their religion it is, is a few miles too far.
Pretending that blindness is a difference instead of an unpleasant challenge and then not being allowed to use the phrase blind spot is just mocking the visually impaired and their struggles, as well as belittling them instead of just showing them respect as capable equal people that are dealing with an issue of not seeing.
Very sorry, but blind people can not see. It is not bias it is the definition.
And a blind spot it an area you can not see.
Now...
Can we find a real way to stop discrimination and can we start with ideas of how to stop American police people from killing/abusing darker skinned people and stop things like women being subjected to domestic abuse and sexual violence at alarming rates?
Or are we busy waving flags?
So cringe. TED really has fallen on hard times.
in what way
Purple flag.
TED is a man's name. Do not act like it has dominance over these strong, independent ladies of courage.
@@dialecticalmonist3405 Lol
I haven't watched any TED videos for over a year because around that time it's just people who were self promoting and so full of themselves that they have some 'new' ideas about something. Now TED has become the Thought and Language police. I suppose people have run out of good ideas worth sharing.
This is being presented in such a condescending way
purple flag! purple flag! 🤣
I wouldn't say "condescending", more like soft. Not to sound like a conservative that arbitrarily pretends like you always gotta be "tough", but you have to draw a line, and these people clearly are just more worried about not offending anyone than they are about ridding of existing biases
@@thegeicogecko I feel like they're speaking to me the way someone speaks to a child
@@emilsundbaum5221 oh wow, yeah I def don't get those vibes
Purple flag.
You comment is condescending.
Instead of attempting to teach how to "reduce bias", how about teaching to increase resilience. Teach people to not read into ulterior motives in every interaction and not taking everything personally.
This. Most people don't go around trying to offend. Purple is my favorite color. Should I be offended that it was used as the flag to point out a negative thing?
Spot on. There is no lower limit of bias. You can ALWAYS find something smaller to be offended by. Resilience is the way fw.
By your logic 1. leaders will get away with creating a culture of unaware monsters and 2. victims will have to deal it and will never succeed because point 1.
Blindsided isn't meant to be about blind people it's a reference to something happening in your perifery or outside it that you don't spot. This is bullshit.
“metastasized “
@@peachesvancouver Thank you. I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. I guess even over-the-top PC woke people can't manage to abide by their own extremist rules. 🙄
Purple flag.
You can't call it bullsh*t. That is offensive to woke, "everything is offensive", culture.
Ok, what?
First, using essentially a safe word similar to what submissive people can use in BDSM situations is a little funny, but maybe they simply weren't aware of this. Purple flag!
Secondly, the blind spot is a biological phenomenon that every person has, not a visual impairment or disability. It's not bias if literally everybody has it.
Thirdly, using the phrase "master" is not a slavery metaphor per se. Master was a title which denoted ability, responsibility and power. Master of the house. Master of a craft. It does not merely mean "owner". In fact, we still use it as a title for a certain level of degree: Master of science or Master of the arts. When I was a child, teachers were called "masters", it went out of fashion but it had nothing to do with slavery, masters traditionally were guildmembers of a craft who taught apprentices who served under them. A member of a household might serve the master of the house. Its meaning is far closer to "employer" or "teacher".
Fourthly, ignorance of another culture's schedule is not bias because ignorance alone is not an assumption. We can't be realistically expected to know every individual person's cultural details and habits. We're supposed to accept them as valid expressions of culture that have their own value to people who hold that cultural identity and give them the freedom to express them like we do our own cultural habits. That's ignoring the fact that inviting somebody to lunch is a social event and if you're fasting you can simply indicate that you aren't eating right now but you can still "have lunch".
The intention behind this talk is great, and the methods they suggest sound worthwhile and effective, but their examples make no sense. The only one that did was the receptionist/executive one at the start.
Exactly! In Danish contractors still call their teachers "master"
Exactly my thoughts! I was picturing the opposite situation were the person doesn't invite her coworker because she assumes she is doing Ramada. Now she would be perceived as racist for assuming she is Muslim. This video made me cringe so bad...
they made us watch this at work today and I can assure everyone cringed without bias.
Oh yeah because master is only used to refer to slavery...*sigh*
@@CaptainKirk01 Not until it is forced to end and it is stopped at the source.
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There are two kinds of TED talks that bother me: 1) Consultants/salespeople using the TED platform as free advertising, 2) Condescending finger waggers "educating" us on their new Orwellian Doublespeak. This one managed to tick both boxes.
Double speak indeed.
'Why was I using a slavery metaphor'
You people are insane.
And people like you are inhumane, just imagine if you or your great-grandparents were born into slavery, hopefully you'll have more compassion then.
Yeah… no. I feel no sympathy for dead people.
I object to them using a cancer metaphor (metastasise). I find it very offensive and inconsiderate to cancer sufferers and people who are close to them.
There's a difference between intentional bias and prejudice and something unintentional. It looks like that distinction is not given much importance here.
@@Dimitris_Balf exact same? would you be indifferent between working with ignorant people and hateful people? that said, I do acknowledge that both are an issue.
Shravan S K> It looks like that distinction is not given much importance here.
Shhh. 🤫 You're using words. Words are offensive.
@@Dimitris_Balf Then that's on you buddy. If you can't tell the difference between someone intentionally trying to hurt you and someone just talking casually without excruciating over every permutation of every word just in case _someone, somewhere_ might have _some_ reason to not like it, then you're just going to be miserable and feel attacked all the time no matter what. The world can't shut down to accommodate you.
Purple flag.
This topic does not deserve to contain the idea of "importance".
@@Dimitris_Balf It's like equating a person who stabbed someone intentionally with a doctor performing a surgery which failed. Both used knives, had same effect but with different volitions.
The way you're giving an example of being seen as a receptionist vs an executive is biased in itself. So you're saying that a receptionist position is inferior to an executive in terms of value as a human, in your point of view?
Sorry but you're being biased yourself by giving that as an example, by looking down on that position. That is wrong in so many ways.
As a male receptionist.. im offended lmao. This ted talk is brainwashing... nothing of value
it's only offensive if you don't believe in meritocracy - which you shouldn't lol. So I guess I agree with you (lol again)
@@joestetz8325 my respect to you. Being the gatekeeper is not an easy task. As a sales manager I often helped out my receptionist colleagues when they were overloaded, I even packed boxes & loaded trucks when extra help was needed in production.There is no higher value in having a higher management title. It's just different titles, like different names to distinguish people's roles. At the end of the day, We're all in the same boat rowing at the same time, towards the same goal. This is by far one of the worst TED talks I've seen.
I'm pretty sure she meant that because of her race people think she's a receptionist. I know a lot of people who think poc couldn't possibly have high level positions.
@@KuramiRocket dumb comment of the day. I don't know anyone with that view. Just a bunch of babies who cry racism everytime they don't get their way.
Wouldn't a blind person taking offense to the term "blind spot" be like an obese person taking offense to a butcher saying "this cut of meat is particularly fatty"?
Did you get a answer to this. I really didn’t understand why blind spot is offensive either. Their are many definitions for blind and blinded. But not being blind myself, means I don’t get to make that call.
When they said "The team should commit to disrupting bias at least once in every meeting" I was expecting them to follow it with "Pros like us are usually able to find biases in every second or third sentence uttered at our workplace meetings".
Purple flag.......you said uttered. I think a cow somewhere felt offended. Lmfao😄😄😄😄
Miss the time when TED was for smart people
I know, I've noticed this recently. What happened? TED used to be about truly evocative ideas/thinking, now it feels like woke finger wagging.
Thankfully TED-Ed still exists 🙏🏼
Guess I'm done with this channel
Me to and their leftist garbage agenda.
Hahahahaha. These people are the problem with society, not everyone else!
I stopped watching TED for over a year. Just came to see what good stuff I missed and should update myself on the current trends and maybe learn something to become a better human being. Instead I get people telling me if I use some common English words I am offensive.
So treat people differently according to their religion/culture/race aka be biased, the exact opposite of what they are apparently promoting.
Well see it is your fault for not being a mind reader and knowing that someone was "fasting" which is a pathetic excuse for fasting because they can eat as soon as the sun goes down. What a joke.
This is asinine on multiple levels. Grow up, be an adult, and stop playing the ultimate victim in life.
Just so no one forgets, this had about a 30/70 like/dislike ratio.
Here's an idea: Let's look at character instead of skin color!
Purple flag.
Everything is racism. Therefore we must talk about it nonstop.
I do agree that bias needs to be avoided. But I dont see the examples as biases. For example, not knowing if someone is fasting is just one's ignorance about the other. Why dont you just state that you are fasting and move on. How can one expect to know who all are fasting, who all are vegetarians and so on.
What I think is that you have too little problems in your part of the world that you think too much about what little you have.
Wait? Are you serious about the "blind spot" thing? XD
The blind spot is the point in every humans eye, where your nerves end. It is a biological fact in every human.
If I follow their thinking, then all metaphors involving a part of the body are potentially problematic: hand waving, knee jerk, back slap, finger pointing, stand on your own feet, rule of thumb, blink of an eye, hair raising, etc. Perhaps we should just raise our eyebrows and give this a middle finger!?
I was surprised. There is LITERALLY a book on the subject called Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. I'm going to agree to disagree on this one.
I came here for Ted Talks not Bad Talks
Oh so even when there are no bias detected there are still biases, fantastic. You know what? Humans will always be biased no matter what. It's pointless to try to neutralize them all. The best you can do is get a lot of People from different horizons and walk of life that will all have different bias and in the end, the biases just average out.
This can't be real, this must be satire
Wow. Blind spot is offensive? People need to get a grip.
Purple flag! Grip is offensive!
This sounds like a minefield to me. For instance the two masters expression didn't bring any association of slavery to me. Because slavery was never in our culture or history where I live. It does invoke a picture of serving two kings though. So I would have a hard time accepting a bias that is clearly not existent in me. (I do realise I have biases, this would not be one of them.) Also the thing about a blindspot. I think that expression doesn't go against people with visual impairments either. One can have a blindspot without having a visual impairment. A driver has several blindspots while driving for instance.
Exactly. Excellent points! We've gone nuts with this stuff.
Based on this video and the comments section, I think the first thing we need to do is agree on "what is a bias?" It seems self explanatory, but it is obvious that we do not all agree on what is bias/prejudice/etc. In a lot of ways it depends on personal experiences. Thoughts?
@@walperstyle let’s take your school example for a moment.
How is saying “you can’t bully people for being lgbtq or because they aren’t white” subjective bullying. I’m really curious.
@@LegendLength there is nothing inherently discriminatory about saying don’t be discriminatory towards people based on their sexual orientation, religion, or race. People who infer that usually have spent a lot of time in HR making themselves out to be the victim
@@LegendLength yeah, the problem with your example is we aren’t systemically holding back white straight cisgender people. Nobody is asking for more respect. People are asking to not be disrespected
Hope that bias training kicks in when picking up that suspicious looking hitchhiker on a mountain road.
@@Dimitris_Balf hope these people have such rose colored glasses on that they naively put themselves in a dangerous situation and provide everyone with evidence that bias serves a purpose.
@@Dimitris_Balf I believe that if you don't look at everything through the framework of offensive vs not offensive, you are far more productive. That's what work is. Progress. People, in general, need to cast away this "oversensitive culture" and veer back into personal liberty and intention based framework. Most people don't walk around intentionally offending others, so creating a culture of over sensitivity is only sludging up the gears of progress. Catering to the least common denominator is not the way forward. Self censorship, fear and stagnation are the only product of this mentality.
@@Dimitris_Balf constantly pointing out and magnifying or differences is divisive and is what is tearing down the notion of a United people. Soon we will only be United in or hatred and/or fear of each other.
Thumbs down is about to defeat thumbs up…
sadly, not
I am raising a purple flag on the thumbs up-thumbs down thing on CZcams. It's an offensive metaphor.
Never hit unsubscribe faster in my life
You and me both
@@Dimitris_Balf Oh oh, those ladies are gonna wave a purple flag 🟪 at you now for using the L-word!!! 😜
This is so beyond unhelpful to anyone in any way...its a basically the Onion News Network come to life
Purple flag.
It's offensive to not treat "everything is offensive" culture seriously.
I have to purple flag your purple flag. In making your valid point about disrespecting offense culture you failed to use the word BIPOC and thus did not center Black and Indigenous.
Imagine working at a place where they make you watch this.
Imagine a work place where these are your coworkers!
This gives me a strong "new speak" orwellian vibe.
That's not what newspeak means...
@@alexmirceta7169 Why is it that everytime a conservative quotes Orwell they have no idea what his book meant or what his intentions were.
The difference is that in 1984, they were modifying language to control people's thoughts. These people are not just trying to control people's thoughts (it's not enough to act nice and speak nice, they want you THINK nice too), but they're also trying to eradicate language altogether, ALL words are offensive now. ¬_¬
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z this is nothing like 1984... In 1984 new speak is meant to eraficate all thoguht and delete words from the dictionary so that people couldn't revolt or question the orders of big brother. Progressives are trying to amplify the dictionary, including as many people as possible and diversifying language. Judt because you can't say "n****r" or "f****t" doesn't mean it's 1984... Orwell is spinning in his grave to this day as people misquote his Magnum Opus...
@@alexmirceta7169 I didn't said this is newspeak, however language policing motivated by ideology, of regular words (which is both silly and incoherent) definitely gives me 1984 feelings.
Your second comment is a straw man, what's your point?
I didn't know TED shares SNL sketches.
You lost me at blind spot
Me too. How else, for example, would one describe the areas you cannot see with side view mirrors when driving?
@@pepperbushman266 It's called visually impaired spot.
- *rolls eyes* -
Purple flag!
@@dadt8009 bias check on your purple flag.
Your use of purple is bias against color blind people.
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Why she was flagged for asking a colleague for a launch when he had Ramadan?
Not sure if that’s a bias
Because everything is offensive now 🙄
Imagine if she hadn't asked that colleague to lunch because she saw what their race was and assumed their religious orientation, and also that they participated in
Ramadan. Isn't that so much worse than just LITERALLY NOT DISCRIMINATING/SHOWING BIAS by giving them the courtesy of asking? Also, you can still ask someone to join you for lunch and its fine if they don't eat? Lunchtime is often breaktime/social time regardless of whether food is consumed O.O
Glad I reviewed this video before adding it to my implicit bias presentation for work. As a Muslim woman in a corporate environment, I’ve never felt offended or the urge to flag a bias when a colleague invited me to lunch while fasting. Even when it was done after me presenting on diversity for Ramadan.
It is good to recognise bias and to stop it. It is also good to have a culture that allows people to express their hurt or discomfort at something with no recriminations. However, it is also a good thing not to make a mountain out of a molehill. To bear with grace and patience the small errors that others make.
The examples that are given in the show seem rather small to me. Personally, it would not be worth the time and effort to combat such tiny offences. Yes, there are times when one must confront bias and stop hatred growing. But most times it is better to give people the benefit of the doubt and move on. As the Bible says, Love covers a multitude of sins.
Calling out biases is perfectly alright. Noone needs to put up with assumptions that diminish, belittle or denigrate people. But stretching that out to imagined offenses is actually counterproductive.
I click on this video thinking I would really learn something so that I can become more aware and also help to improve my work environment. But I am disappointed because I don't think they touch on the real biases that hurt people. Work place biases happen in pays, promotions, favouritism by bosses, being excluded by colleagues in good projects, being alienated, ...
If you’re offended by words like lunch, masters, or blind spots, you should probably just wear ear plugs and bubble wrap out in Public.
Jesper Andersson well according to this video, there was someone offended by those words.
This is for kids, right? RIGHT??
Seriously?
Why would you feel shame when you asked someone for lunch.
They're fasting for Rahmadan.... the onus is on them to say " no thank you I'm fasting ".
It's like our society has become a bunch of top toeing tender flakes.
At this point it's like we have to be angst ridden over every little thing that we speak.
Silly really.
Do we also have to consider whether a person is diabetic before we invite them for a birthday party because there will be cakes, a recovering alcoholic before we invitie them for a drink after work, or if someone is trying to lose weight before we invite them for any meal?
@@dadt8009 right ?!
I think the point of the video is to normalize pointing out bias so you don't need to be angst ridden whenever it comes up in our ever more diverse workplaces.
As far as the onus, the way I look at it is: I'm walking around with food stuck in my teeth, its nobody's responsibility to tell me this, they could let me walk around embarrassing myself all day but I'm really grateful to the stranger who works up the courage to point it out to me.
Unreal that this is not satire. Imagine having to pre-screen everything you say for potential subtle biases and imagine the effort consumed screening others for the same thing. You'd literally not pay attention to the meeting. What gets me the most really is the vicarious offense. "Blind spot": Show me the hordes of blind people offended by this popular term and I wont use it anymore. But having two privileged women tell us that "on behalf of everyone else thou shall not speak that way", is a small step for TED but a giant leap for 1984.
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This entire video is one huge purple flag for me...
How can a blind person make an "eye statement?"
There is no way for any human to speak without offending someone somewhere at some point. I understand the philosophy, but is this actually helping production? I can't imagine having to check yourself every minute because you used a *potentially* offensive word is very good for ensuring products go out the door, which is what a company's primary focus should be, should it not?
Also, ask a blind person if they think being blind is "a good thing."
I miss the times before everything was offensive.
Whenever you take offense on behalf of a group that you're very clearly not a part of, you're being a self-centered spud and should be disregarded. Why are you doing this to yourself, humanity?
Wait, saying "blind spots" is offensive now? For crying out loud
If your blind you don’t see a spot?
Ignore them
It's not. They are the self-appointed offense police. Doesnt mean its real
It's called visually impaired spot now.
This is not practical for very long in real life... too disruptive, too difficult to sustain. It's in vogue right now but won't be for much longer as more come to realize this. And grownups understand that in real life, people can be jerks. Mature people don't try to eradicate this; they learn strategies to deal with such situations, and more importantly, to master their own reactions, like choosing to not be offended. The world does not owe anyone a life free of all risk of offense or discomfort.
If only everyone in the workplace can focus on doing a good job. Everyone has biases. Lets recognize our own and promote an environment where others recognize theirs.
O wow what a waste of time. This is what we are focusing on as a nation. What a massive distraction versus actually being helpful. We are so worried about how people “feel” it’s pathetic
How silly. I really don't think so poorly of blind people as to think they'll fall apart at hearing the common phrase "blind spot". Why do we think treating adults like children will help anything at all?
I think this video is more about accidentally offending people (and how to react on that) than it is about bias.
This video is very important. It shows what NOT to focus on! People are dying around the world and these entitled women talk about how offensive it is inviting someone for lunch?? How narrow-minded are you?
Oh, sorry, that must have been offensive to people with a "narrow head" (??? idk)
Better solution, don't wear your feelings on your sleeve. Think with your brain and not your emotions. Good grief, stop whining. Remember you choose to be offended, so change your choice.
Is it just me or does this seem a bit extreme? Is it not true that bias can just be personal preference? Seems there are infinite possibilities for how virtually any word could trigger someone, potentially any and all language could, probably does contain a modicum of bias. Maybe it’s just the examples that were used. Not against sensitivity and obvious bias , discrimination or prejudice based on age, identity, sexual orientation, gender etc no place in a workplace bit this seems extreme at least the examples set forth in the video.
What an absolute load of.........
Were you trying to use a metaphor there and then realised you could be offensive to male cattle?
One step closer to becoming 1 efficient mass of productivity
Great techniques pushed and strained to reach ridiculous ends.
I don’t work in the office so problem solved.
I think this serving 3 masters is not a bias. We have the identical phrase in German, and Germany had never any slaves, and the same phrase is used in Dutch, not a slave country either.
One can overdo sensitivity, and create an oppressive speech environment
While I agree on the statement, your reasoning is not sound. "Germany" may not have been a part of the slave trade but it depends on how you define "Germany". Germany the modern country, no, because it didn't exist at the time. "Germany" as a cultural concept of German peoples, absolutely participated in slave trading. The Dutch absolutely did.
@@Melesniannon There sure have not been any number of slaves on German soil, and neither on Dutch soil. Germany had any colonies outside of the country only for a very, very short time in history, not really having enough time for establishing slave trades. Of cause when you talk of German*ic people, you have the Anglos and Saxons, the Vikings and Goths, etc. and they might as well have had slaves. But these times did not influence the German language dramatically.
@@lindewhocares1353 For Germany, I'm referring to Prussia, actually, which had colonies in Africa and participated in Trans-Atlantic slave trading such as notably Gross Friedrichsburg (point of irony: they sold that to the Dutch eventually). Colonies are that country's soil, it is kind of the point of colonizing.
There's possibly more to find but I'd have to dig a bit but quite frankly Prussia should suffice as an example, I did not intend "Germanic" to be so broad as to include Anglo-Saxons and the Nordic cultures. Or the Dutch for that matter, who are also culturally Germanic.
Same goes for the Dutch and their colonies. Yes, they had few slaves in Europe, but their colonies which also were considered "Dutch soil" (in fact, some colonized islands still belong to the Kingdom of the Netherlands) and they had plenty slaves there. In fact the topic of slavery is still a sore topic in the Netherlands with black people there fighting for recognition of its past, and possibly reparations.
And by "still" I mean "currently, this year, still a topic", because the Dutch government refuses to apologize for their history of slavery. They don't deny it, its historical reality is not a point of controversy, they just don't consider it something they ought to apologize for. I don't know the case for Germany and whether it's a current topic there, possibly less because it's not such a clear consistently same government.
@@Melesniannon The way it looks like, the German colonial adventure was very short lived, and it was not Prussia that did it, but the German Reich under the then ruling emperor.
The colonial time started 1884, and was finished 1914. Almost all the former colonies fell under British control.
When I lived in Germany for about 10 years, nobody ever mentioned anything of this time. And I don't think that the short experiences with any possible slavery did for sure not influence the German language. I speak German fluently, and I would not be able to identify any word that would have been influence by their African adventure.
@@lindewhocares1353 Euh, Gross Friedrichburg, as I specifically mentioned, was a Prussian colony in Africa. It was established in 1682. Whether or not the extent of colonization and slavery was great or long-lived is a seperate matter, we were talking about whether or not it existed at all.
As for the expression, I said right from the start that I agree that the meaning of that expression is not related to slavery, merely that your justifications for that reason, being that neither Germany or the Netherlands have a history of slavery, is historically wrong :-). Nothing else than that.
This video is fantastic! I love how practical the tips are. Thank you so much!
I absolutely love the increasing awareness of bias and making people more comfortable at the workplace, but I think the purple flag for using the word "blind" might be the most ridiculous thing I've heard all year. It's a little too far. You should want people to be involved and committed, not annoyed.
More wokeness from TED.
So biases in humans don't exist and ted just made it up?
Women are more emotionally bias than men in the workplace.
@@l0g1cseer47 definitely not... I work in an office and thst is not the case, and most people working in offices will tell you so
Nothing wrong with being awake to the wrongs of the world.
@@alexmirceta7169 is emotion comparable to information as we understand as rational argument or something offsettingly irrational that it deforms the current information flow stop.. to switch or avoid as communicatively sensible?
How bout, just do your job and stop taking EVERYTHING wrong!
I really object to some of the examples of implicit bias in this video, which we were required to watch for work. First of all, "serves three masters" is part of a quote from Sigmund Freud: "the poor ego...serves three Masters...". It is a general idiomatic expression. Secondly, "masters" could refer to many things, not necessarily a slave master. The second example is that someone was called out for bias because they asked someone out for lunch! It turns out this person was fasting during Ramadan. Seriously? I don't think I am responsible for knowing the Islamic calendar or any other calendar for that matter. All the invitee has to say, as an adult, "oh, thanks, but I can't. It's Ramadan and I'm fasting." To which the inviter responds, "oh ok, let's do it after Ramadan then."
I'm all for recognizing bias in our interpersonal interactions at work and in our personal lives but these examples are silly. Sure, if either of these examples were a part of a string of slavery related comments or repeated veiled digs at a person's religion, then yes, they'd be bad. But taken in isolation we have to go out of our way to feel upset about them. Instead of advocating for a healthy workspace this video ends up trivializing what we should all take seriously. But maybe the message I should have walked away with has gone right over my head?
What crap. These people are crazy.
I was going to dislike this but since it made me laugh I won't 🤣
This awkward skit reminded me of the "Muskrat" safety word scenes in the movie Meet The Fockers
Am i a bad person ?
As a left-handed man named Kim, I am pretty comfortable taking an authoritarian position on this: if someone mislabels/misgenders/misnames/misunderstands you, and you take offense at it, the failure was not theirs for operating with a limited data set. The failure is yours for taking offense that their data set was incomplete. Now, if someone has met me and we have already done the obligatory "Ms. Roberts . . . Oh, sorry. Mr. Roberts. Your name is Kim? Huh . . ." dance (my absolute favorite) and they STILL persist in calling me Ms., then and ONLY then do I have cause for offense. Because only then are their actions possibly intentional or malicious. Whatever they do in semi-ignorance is the fault of their ignorance and limited data set, not some bias or unconscious prejudice against me. And since blind strangers will never have any other option than working together within initially limited data sets, the readiness of some individuals to take offense at that is really just a reflection of their own bull-headed insistence on taking offense, and has little to no bearing on whatever biases the other person might hold. In fact, this readiness is, in itself, quite a glaring and harmful bias itself. It is a bias towards taking offense at the innocent or non-malicious actions of others. But if you do this and know you are doing it, you are not innocent. Because you know you are doing it, your offense is actually malicious. You are guilty of taking offense where none was intended. You did that. Not them.
Also, who polices the bias-checkers? This sounds awfully like a Kafka trap. If you have been accused of a bias and deny it, you're just confirming that bias and you are guilty as charged. If you accept the bias, you're guilty as charged as well.
I am waving the maroon (red+purple) flag on this video!
Pure insanity...
Oh oh, those ladies are gonna wave a purple flag 🟪 at you now. You've offended a subset of the differently abled! 😜
@@nHans Thank you for educating me. I will repent... :)
Its true, I first thought these women were very intelligent and had a inspiring message...
I think the fasting example is kind of unfair lol. it can just be a habit of wanting to spend time with someone when there's free time.
What does an executive look like oppose to a receptionist!?
If you are implying that executives look like they are in charge but receptionist look sloppy...maybe you should take your appearance more serious, considering how sensitive you about other people's opinions!
Wow.
I have a huge, raging "purple flag" whilst watching the video
This is comedy gold 😂
This video is so condescending and treats adults like children. So much of it is the presenters assuming on someone else's behalf that they will be offended by someone else's normal use of accepted language like blindspot FFS. This is an example of them convicting others via their own bisase....
Unconscious bias is perhaps the most useless, undefined and pointless concept that there is. It looks like the result of an academic study looking for a victim.
One gets biases through living... everyone gets them you can't help it. Some are good and some are bad. In its extremes, if I think of a tree I picture an oak tree or if i lived in a country where a certain, easily identifiable, demographic is responsible for over 50% of violent murders, each time i meet someone who i can identify as someone coming from that demographic I am going to be very cautious and assume that they are going to be violent. Biases are a result of living and in context, these two options are both correct and not wrong or bad..
Who's bias is considered to be the 'right one'? and who says? and through what bias lens are they looking through and whose bias training materials was the training material was used? We would all have to be robots programmed to some set of rules... Where is humanity in that?
People like these have good intentions but suck the life out of humanity where one walks around scared of losing one's job/livelihood/family/life because someone not from your culture/humour/age group/race/ history (pick one) doesn't like something you have said, due to their own unconscious biases....
Also, it is very easy to be corrupted as it is very very hard to define what it is and I have found that often the person deciding what is a bad bias is the last type of person who should have that kind of power. Who would check them?
Deciding if a bias is good or bad is often dependant on the recipient's feelings and not the intention of the person accused. There are man areas in the UK where calling someone love, darling etc is considered affection and a good thing.
Purple is my favorite color. I'm so offended that you'd use it on a flag to point out a negative! ;) Good grief, TED folks! We can't go around looking for stuff to which we can be offended. Most people are good people trying to care about others.
Oh, and to validate my right to have a "contrary opinion" to what is supposedly cultural improvement, I will reveal I am a part Cherokee, female receptionist who grew up in an abusive home, have visual problems that hinder driving, and I regularly fast for religious reasons. Few around me know any of that except the obvious female traits. Why is that? Because I listen to understand rather than to get to wave a purple flag. It isn't all about me.
Unconscious bias again older workers often gets overlooked as needing tackling and gets missed off lists of biases
Easy: Pick employees randomly.
Solved.
We need to have stronger skin. In the “real” world the flag is Not gonna work. Its bias to have biases. Its a catch 22. I can be sensitive to the letter A. No words with letter A cause im OCD. So the whole company cant speak or write letter A?
Disappointed in this video
This just got shoved on me at work too... not ok
Anyone else think that they will ever try and know everything about everyone and every situation before speaking so that no one could possibly be offended?
Thank you for the amazing insight!
Here's a better idea... Grow up
Rebranded CRT. Congrats TEDtrash
Communist Racist Tripe.
Crazy people
Oh oh, those ladies are gonna wave a purple flag 🟪 at you now. You've offended a subset of the differently abled! 😜
Very helpful message, but the example of "HR serves 3 masters" is a bit ridiculous. You can have a master without being a slave. Unless HR is understood as a slave, in which case ok.
My very old school boss used to call me "hun" or "babe". I didn't take it personal bc I knew he wasn't intentionally trying to be disrespectful. Later on a woman chewed his @%% at the local diner. I explained to him that no woman really likes being addressed that way. Lol He understood, took note and quit it all together. He is almost 70 so no one is to old to understand these things. But a nice decent conversation as they are pointing out is key. Any innocent mistake should not be shamed.
The diner should have lost his business. How about society conform to the greatest generation instead of forcing nonsense or outright evil 1984 style speech restrictions on to him?
If I tried to chew somebody out I would be fired and there are plenty of customers that deserve it. Who is privileged now?
Purple flag.
Boy, these guys are really embarrassing to mankind.
"guys" Purple flag
Definitely ratio
Purple flag is in itself a bias because purple used to be the color of gay pride which has now been replaced with a rainbow flag.
So the way to deal with bias and help everyone to work better together is by accusing only white people of bias? That helps?
How are they saying only white people are biased when literally they talked about pointing it out to everyone including the Black lady who was talking in the video.
How about people who lay eyes on each other and instantly dislike each other, both of whom are similar (no diversity)? This is from social psychology and it is real.
They just wave purple flags at each other.
Purple Flag - Bias is not the cause/intent for everything that comes out of a person's mouth. Routine, familiarity, culture, lack of education are other examples of cause.