Posted on 05/12/2023 9:39:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I loved reading this study. I truly did.
I loved it despite the fact that the authors themselves didn’t understand the meaning of their research. They thought it proved that White liberals are trying too hard to be “allies” of minorities, but what it in fact proved is that conservatives respect minorities as individuals and treat them just as they treat White people.
The writeup itself is a bunch of liberal racist gobbledygook, filled with virtue signaling, misrepresentations, and blindness to the meaning of the findings.
Glorious. Truly glorious. Levels of stupidity that only academics can achieve. I am pretty sure it was put together by the Yale PR department rather than the researchers, who seem a bit more sober than the PR people.
The study to which I refer is not new. It is new to me, though, so I feel utterly free to share my thoughts because the study confirms what anybody who has spent time around condescending liberals instinctively knows.
A certain kind of NPR/NYT white liberal performatively wails about black victimhood constantly but reveals her/his deep-seated doubts about the existence of black excellence.
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) November 5, 2021
The Yale writeup of the study is a perfect example of how clueless liberals are, and how blind to reason academics are so often.
New research suggests that bias may also shape daily interactions between racial minorities and white people, even those whites who tend to be less biased.
According to new research by Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale SOM, white liberals tend to downplay their own verbal competence in exchanges with racial minorities, compared to how other white Americans act in such exchanges. The study is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Notice how the discussion begins? They claim to be studying Whites who are LESS BIASED. The assumption is that White liberals are not biased against Black people, while their research shows exactly the opposite as we shall see. The researchers are liberal, know that liberals are good, and therefore liberals are not the biased ones. Conservatives, who behave the same with both Whites and minorities, are the genuinely biased ones.
Liberal=good. It is a law of nature.
So how do liberals behave, these truly good and unbiased people?
The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences. The difference wasn’t statistically significant in speeches by Republican candidates, though “it was harder to find speeches from Republicans delivered to minority audiences,” Dupree notes. There was no difference in Democrats’ or Republicans’ usage of words related to warmth. “It was really surprising to see that for nearly three decades, Democratic presidential candidates have been engaging in this predicted behavior.”
In other words, Democrats talk down to Black and Hispanic people, while Republicans do not.
Republicans treat their audiences of whatever race the same, and with the same basic respect for their intelligence and ability to reason.
Hmmm. Who is “less biased?”
What about in work settings? Perhaps liberal politicians treat minorities as if they were children, but the average liberal treats their Black colleagues just the same as their White colleagues?
Nope, they too assume that Blacks are stupid.
The researchers found that liberal individuals were less likely to use words that would make them appear highly competent when the person they were addressing was presumed to be black rather than white. No significant differences were seen in the word selection of conservatives based on the presumed race of their partner. “It was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect,” Dupree says. “Even if it’s ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing.”
Hmm. Patronizing? Why would anybody assume that treating people as if they are stupid and incompetent is patronizing?
Dupree and Fiske suspect that the behavior stems from a liberal person’s desire to connect with other races. One possible reason for the “competence downshift,” as the authors describe it, is that, regardless of race, people tend to downplay their competence when they want to appear likeable and friendly. But it’s also possible that “this is happening because people are using common stereotypes in an effort to get along,” Dupree says.
Initial data from follow-up studies suggest that describing a black person as highly intelligent, thus reversing the stereotype, or as already highly motivated to get along with whites, thus removing the need to prove goodwill, can reduce the likelihood that a white person will downplay their competence in their interactions with the black person.
Do you see what they are doing here? Liberals treat minorities as if they are clumsy children because they want to be liked. They are just super nice people, that’s all.
Conservatives, those meanies, treat everybody the same, proving that they hate minorities and are a bunch of White supremacists. If they were truly good people they would treat Black people like children, as liberals do. Or something.
Despite all the evidence that White liberals are racist–they assume that Blacks cannot understand complicated things and that Blacks are incompetent–the researchers actually characterize the White liberals as “allies” to minorities.
Some allies.
While many previous studies have examined how people who hold racial bias behave in multi-racial settings, few have studied how whites who are more well-intentioned interact with people of other races. “There’s less work that explores how well-intentioned whites try to get along with racial minorities,” Dupree says. “We wanted to know their strategies for increasing connections between members of different social groups—and how effective these strategies are.”
Conservatives are the ones who aren’t well-intentioned. We know this because they treat minorities like they treat everybody else. We know liberals are well-intentioned because they treat Blacks and Hispanics like little children.
Yeah, you go with that.
There is, of course, an alternative explanation for why White liberals behave as if they look down on minorities as inferior: it may be because they look down on minorities because they believe them to be inferior.
Ever consider that? Isn’t that the assumption in every affirmative action program? In every attempt to eliminate testing requirements? In fact, in every DEI initiative is an assumption that minorities are incapable of achieving success on their own.
Here is the abstract for the study in full:
Most Whites, particularly socio-political liberals, now endorse racial equality. Archival and experimental research reveals a subtle but reliable ironic consequence: White liberals self-present less competence to minorities than to other Whites—that is, they patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent. In an initial archival demonstration of the competence downshift, Study 1 examined the content of White Republican and Democratic presidential candidates’ campaign speeches. Although Republican candidates did not significantly shift language based on audience racial composition, Democratic candidates used less competence-related language to minority audiences than to White audiences.Across five experiments (total N= 2,157), White participants responded to a Black or White hypothetical (Studies 2, 3, 4, S1) or ostensibly real (Study 5) interaction partner. Three indicators of self-presentation converged:sophistication of vocabulary selected for an assignment, competence-relatedtraitsselectedfor an introduction, and competence-related content of brief, open-ended introductions. Conservatism indicators included: self-reported political affiliation(liberal-conservative), Right-Wing Authoritarianism (values-based conservatism) and Social Dominance Orientation (hierarchy-based conservatism). Internal meta-analyses revealed that liberals—but not conservatives—presented less competence to Black interaction partners than to White ones. The simple effect was small but significant across studies, and most reliable for the self-reported measureof conservatism. This possibly unintentional but ultimately patronizing competence-downshift suggests that well-intentioned liberal Whites may draw on low-status/competence stereotypes to affiliate with minorities
Liberal racism is a very real, measurable phenomenon, based upon the assumption that minorities are unintelligent, incompetent, and lack self-control.
The latter is made clear by the criminal justice policies the Left is putting forward: they refuse to hold minority criminals responsible for their actions because, apparently, they do not believe they are competent moral actors capable of behaving in a civilized fashion.
That assumption is not true, and in fact, encourages criminality among minorities who are assured they will catch a break. For many, it becomes rational to behave as a criminal because they can get away with it.
The statistics are actually pretty clear that success in America is not determined by race. Whites are, among ethnic groups, pretty much in the middle of the pack in income compared to other racial groups. This data is a bit old, but the chart is so easy to understand that I chose to use it. The current data is not much different.
The correlate here is not race, but education. Particularly what kind of education, as the Asian-Americans represented tend to be highly educated with technical skills in high demand. Indian Americans average 80% higher incomes than White Americans. Black immigrants to the United States make $15,000 a year more than American-born Blacks. Race is not the variable that matters.
If liberals really wanted to help minorities who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder, improving our public education system would be the obvious answer. And, of course, there is no institution in America harder to reform than our union-dominated public school system.
Go figure.
The commiecrats are definitely the most racist people on earth, given their party history of slavery, Jim Crow and the kkk!
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Yeah but the parties switched don’t you know. /S
At age 20, when I was a RINO and social liberal, I felt sorry for black poeple. I was condescending to the one black guy I vaguely knew at college. It took one of my staunchly conservative fraternity brothers to finally intellectually slap the crap out of me to correct my mindset, after he spotted it. The correction was much needed but I have the luxury of now understanding how these proggies think. The difference is, they use blacks for political gain or personal virtue signaling. I think it’s especially profound in young lefty women, as their hormones confuse with their protective nurture instincts, so it whacks them out.
“Yale research accidentally proved liberals more racist than conservatives”
Accidentally should be replaced with accurately.
Accidentally.
Yep! And the poor are a commodity for the left.
Just listen to them shuck and jive when addressing black audiences. “Aw ain’t no ways tarred.”
Hillary carrying hot sauce in her purse and Joe Biden saying ‘ya all’ would be in chains’ if not for white liberal ‘elites’ was cringe worthy.
And all that white liberal pandering to criminals in the black community as if black citizens didn’t care if they lived in violent hellholes? Are liberals nuts?
The brutal truth is that deep in their hearts both conservatives and liberals know that on AVERAGE blacks have a significantly lower IQ than whites and Asians. (blacks know it, too).
The difference is that conservatives accept that reality and make the best of it, whereas liberals, as usual refuse to accept reality and do everything in their power to convince themselves that it is not so, because the idea that there may be differences in average group abilities is anathema to them. We’re all “equal”.
And so they do everything in their power to cripple the smarter groups (what they call “privileged”) and coddle the dumber ones (the “disadvantaged”) to make themselves “virtuous”.
Black excellence? I stopped there.
I’ve been in Africa. Grassroots is still tribal.
If there were caves, they’d be cavemen.
Black’s in America have no idea of how lucky leaders wast they are.
The land of opportunity that their Marxist muslim leaders want to erase. Obamanites.
This is very true. A very smart black girl in our mostly white suburban town that was always at the top of her class academically and graduated as valedictorian acing the SATs and went to Harvard told my daughter that the students constantly patronized her assuming she was affirmative action and treated her like she was handicapped even though she was at the top of her Harvard class academically. She always resented it. The same thing happened to her older sister at another Ivy League college
Why is it that so called ‘bias’ or being ‘racist’ is always written from the perspective of how ‘racist’ or not ‘racist’ are whites? And more importantly why do many/most white buy into it?
I agree that real education in real majors would help blacks. But IMHO even education is a symptom more than a cause. The real battle to win is against hedonism. With the Dims making todays arguments focus on gay hedonism and pedo hedonism, we’re forgetting that straight hedonism is tearing up more lives, especially blacks. Win the battle against hedonism and more black kids have their father help raise them. Win the battle against hedonism and fewer blacks become parents while the parents themselves are still kids. Win the battle against hedonism and more black kids have two older and mature parents raising them, teaching them to be responsible and pick good careers and pursue an education that leads to those careers.
Well intentioned?
No surprise. This studied the white liberal elite, who, by definition, want to keep their own power, by keeping the rest of us divided by skin color (and other factors) and distracted, while they take away our freedom. So the condescending language of their speeches fosters that division.
I had a bunch of black females admitted to my law school class who were basically allowed to cheat during anonymous law school finals and still flunked out, all of them. Some of the black guys did not flunk out.
And the bar would be ahead of them.
Question asked, question answered.
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