Now that's progress: Cowardly Lying Mike admits that implicit bias exists. He agrees with progressives (who have never denied their own implicit biases). With that progress completed, how about we look at the broad literature that addresses the nature of implicit bias. Hint: you'll never see Cowardly Lyin Mike post those studies.
Here's a good summary article that explains what implicit bias is, how it is measured, and the relationship between implicit and explicit bias.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.117 ... 6211070781
TL/DR Our brains have implicit biases based on group stereotypes that we aren't consciously aware of. Those biases should not be confused with the explicit biases that we are aware of and can be properly categorized as "racist," "sexist," etc. The problem is that those biases can be translated into harmful, discriminatory behavior without anyone realizing it is happening. One of the best examples is what's called the "veil of darkness" studies.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/ ... ffic-stops\
An analysis of 95 million traffic stops showed a puzzling fact: black drivers are stopped by law enforcement at a much lower rate at night, when the LEOS can't see the race of the driver. In fact, as darkness sets in, the rate that black drivers are arrested steadily falls. As it gets light, the rate steadily rises.
So, when LEOs can see that the driver of a vehicle is black, they are more likely to stop it.
Are the LEOs racist? Only if they are explicitly biased, i.e., they deliberately stop black drivers because they think black folks are criminals. Otherwise, no. They are acting on implicit bias they are not aware of.
Use the Google and you can find lots of these studies. They show some particular problems in the justice system where implicit bias occurs at many steps in the process, compounding the resulting harm.
It's really refreshing to see Cowardly Lyin Mike finally admit that implicit bias exists. Remember, you can't spell "progressive" without "progress."