“Such subjective decision-making processes, are particularly susceptible to being influenced not by overt bigotry and hatred, but rather by unexamined assumptions about others that the decisionmaker may not even be aware of — hence the difficulty of ferreting out discrimination as a motivating factor.”

June 4, 2014

Source: Thomas v. Troy City Bd. of Educ., 302 F. Supp. 2d 1303, 1309 (M.D. Ala. 2004).

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