Jonathan_Graehl comments on Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think - Less Wrong
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Why should your behavior be unaffected? If you want to spend time evaluating a person on their own merits, surely you still can.
Just because I'll be able to do something doesn't mean that I will. I can resolve to spend time evaluating people based on their own merits all I like, but that's no guarantee at all that the resolution will last.
You seem to think that anti-bigots evaluate people on their merits more than bigots do. Why?
If you're looking for a group of people who are more likely to evaluate people on their merits, you might try looking for a group of people who are committed to believing true things.