From a student:
Normalcy bias "refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations.
The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur." When I bring this thinking to the work we do, it sounds like this - Racism, as we knew it, is over and will never come back again. These last words, "never has occurred then it never will," really resonate with the modern forms of racism and the need to continue the conversation about race and racism into the so-called post racial 21st century.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/16-signs-americans-prepared-coming-economic-collapse.html
Normalcy bias "refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of governments to include the populace in its disaster preparations.
The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur." When I bring this thinking to the work we do, it sounds like this - Racism, as we knew it, is over and will never come back again. These last words, "never has occurred then it never will," really resonate with the modern forms of racism and the need to continue the conversation about race and racism into the so-called post racial 21st century.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/16-signs-americans-prepared-coming-economic-collapse.html
