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Unconscious bias training has become quite trendy in woke circles, but why do we need it and what do you get taught? I booked myself on to a course on behalf of RT to see if I need to change the way I think about certain people.
I'm cured. I am the most woke guy on this website, and I have a piece of paper to prove it. Right now, I feel like all the biased things I have ever thought, said or done in my whole life have been washed away. I'm absolved of those sins. Phew! And it only cost £295.
If it was good enough for a man who wants to be prime minister of the UK, then it's good enough for me.
Sir Keir Starmer did an unconscious bias course and said all Labour Party
staff were to follow in his Superman-hairstyle-wearing wake.
"I think everybody should have unconscious bias training. I think it is important," he told an LBC radio listener on his
'Call Keir' show last summer. "There is always the risk of unconscious bias and just saying 'Oh well it only applies to other people and not me' is not the right thing to do. So, I am going to lead from the front on this and do the training."
He was so chuffed after he did his class a couple of months later that his spokesman announced - via the
Sun's deputy political editor - that he had "passed his unconscious bias training." I wonder if it's actually possible to fail? If so, what does one have to do? Someone should find out.
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