Windshield Bias, Car Brain, Motornormativity: Different Names, Same Obscured Public Health Hazard | Published in Findings

The more invested our communities become in the government as the solution to violence, the less connected we become to each other, and the less we look to our own communities as sources of safety, healing, prevention, and transformation.

compensated for the perceived increase in safety by taking more risks.14 This “Peltzman effect”

Preference for racial segregation, and a lack of a sense of loss about segregation • Lack of understanding about what racism is • Seeing ourselves as individuals, exempt from the forces of racial socialization • Failure to understand that we bring our group’s history with us, that history matters • Assuming everyone is having or can have our experi

In-group bias (or us-versus-them thinking) is a concrete example. We tend to treat those we deem as outgroups as if they are incidental, in our way. We lack compassion for those we place in outgroups, losing the ability to care about them. We do this not just towards human beings but also towards other species.

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