{"id":4797,"date":"2020-02-23T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2020-02-23T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T18:36:17","slug":"reading-response-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/23\/reading-response-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In Banaji and Greenwald\u2019s book \u201cBlindspot\u201d, they discuss the different types of lies individuals can tell, organizing them into \u201cshades of truth\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This in itself was interesting to me because lies and truth are often viewed as opposites.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, the authors use this play on words to discuss certain lies as manipulations of the truth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, lies are distortions of the truth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For me, I found the section \u201cColorless Lies\u201d to be intriguing. The section discussed a quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, addressing the things individuals experience that they are not willing to admit to themselves, let alone to others.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These things that people keep to themselves are considered \u201ccolorless lies\u201d because they are not acknowledged by the individual himself or others, by extension; they are invisible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I thought this was an interesting inclusion because it isn\u2019t necessarily distorting the truth, but it is omitting some truth from being known; that, in itself, is an untruth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The authors go on to express how these untruths affect the teller as much as the listener, which is what makes them unique from other types of \u201clies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Banaji and Greenwald\u2019s book \u201cBlindspot\u201d, they discuss the different types of lies individuals can tell, organizing them into \u201cshades of truth\u201d.\u00a0 This in itself was interesting to me because lies and truth are often viewed as opposites.\u00a0 However, the authors use this play on words to discuss certain lies as manipulations of the truth.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}