It's incredibly depressing that the concept of "bias" has been shrunken down to solely mean "bad attitudes about an ethnic or gender ground" (and perhaps on the right, "bad attitudes about conservatives")
Bias could mean so, so many other things. Was the amyloid hypothesis incorrect? How should we use semicolons? How do you know when meetings waste more time than not? etc. People understand the world via mental shortcuts, via theory-rather-than-fact. We're stuck doing this because we're limited in so many ways. We are so biased about so many things, and this could interact in so many interesting ways. But damned if anyone cares about that. The only thing they seem to care about is how you feel about the "right" or "wrong" groups of people. It's a catastrophic waste of time and energy.
It's incredibly depressing that you believe arguing about semicolons is more important than argument about human beings, power hierarchies, prejudice and the way these are encoded and expressed by the systems we create and use to influence and control society, but I guess it takes all kinds.
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In general, people who complain about power hierarchies do not want an end to hierarchies. They just want the hierarchies to be reshuffled so that they are the ones on top. There are exceptions, there are certainly true believers, but for the most part it's just another tired power grab by another name.
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its incredibly depressing ostensibly intelligent people get depressed about others having different points of view or set up fallacies of the excluded middle / xor fallacies where not warranted.
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