Donna Young, "The Handling of Race Discrimination Complaints at the Ontario Human Rights Commission"
1. What are the seven biased working assumptions that Young discusses as operating at the Ontario Human Rights Commission and what are the counter assumptions that she proposes?
2. Young is critiquing these assumptions. Do you have trouble with any of her critiques? Do you think any of these assumptions are appropriate? Which ones and why? Are you sceptical that these assumptions are in operation at the Commission? Which ones and why?
3. Can you think of other biased assumptions that might be operating at the Commission and that we should watch out for?
4. What is the bias Young is exploring and what are its effects?
5. How might Young's analysis relate to forms of discrimination other than race-based?
6. Be prepared to look for these issues in our discussions and in the readings.