Overt prejudice is easier to remedy than subtle bureaucratic bias.

Evidence

If public officials were simply biased or racist, and if their prejudices were regularly manifested in behavior, the problem of bias in bureaucracy would be more pernicious but easier to root out. At the very least it would be easier to establish policy directives to reduce bias in bureaucracy. But patterns of Rationing Services: Inequality in Administration prejudice are more subtle in the modern bureaucracy dedicated officially to equal treatment. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 796

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s hypothesis: subtle bureaucratic practice outpaces cultural narrative change, making it harder to root out. — connects to: Benevolent stereotyping is a more insidious control mechanism than overt hostility.; Contemporary racism often operates indirectly rather than through overt bigotry. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 47

Broader Connections

• Contemporary racism often operates indirectly rather than through overt bigotry. #corroborates (0.85) — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 47
• Benevolent stereotyping is a more insidious control mechanism than overt hostility. #expands (0.75)