Automatic Attitudinal Response

So for this assignment I thought I was going to struggle finding a post where I showed a bias, because I have always liked to think I was a pretty open minded person.  I have always been interested in listening to what people think and tried to understand why they think the way that they do.  But as I skimmed through all of my post every single last one of them had multiple bias opinions stated in them.  It is kind of shocking to me and in all honestly pretty disappointing, because I will probably always think the way that I think, but I always want to try and listen to others and their opinions. 

The post I would like to address of mine is my very first one, “The Game has Changed.”  It was honestly completely ridiculous for the most part.  I opened up with my very first sentence saying “The story brought up many points of concern, but I feel like it was all very one sided and that side was very Liberal.”  I mean I do not feel like I am wrong for having an opinion, but I was not doing the actual assignment.  I was supposed to discuss the talking points then give an opinion, but I jumped straight to my bias opinion.  Towards the end of that post I went on to say “Although I tried my very best to keep an open mind to the show it was hard for me to follow because I feel like it was all so very one sided and to me that was that Trump is destroying the media and just taking it over.”  I feel like I was pretty much saying I did not even want to listen to the show because it was too one sided.  And to me that is me being default to a primary certitude.  My family is split down the middle when it comes to politics as far as aunts, uncles, and cousins, so I feel like I have always been open to everything.  I mean do not get me wrong, I have my own opinions and biases, but I try not to show them because I also care to hear what others think and I know that if I am being bias it will just turn into an argument instead of a conversation and there is just no need for that. 

I am glad we were given this assignment because I always thought I was pretty neutral when it came to discussing politics, but now that I have went back over some of my post I have realized that I am not always as open minded as I thought and that is something that I will need to work on.