Posted on 10/16/2008 7:42:24 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA-Two Cornell researchers are arguing that “unconscious bias” may prevent people from voting for Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.
Law professor Jeff Rachlinski and Greg Parks, a 2008 Ph.D. graduate from Cornell's law school, are co-authoring an article on the effect of unconscious race and gender bias on the presidential race …
Unconscious bias is distinguishable from racism or sexism because it is not explicit, and the person carrying it is unaware of its effect on their actions, Parks said. While racism involves animosity and awareness, a person displaying an unconscious bias will sometimes vehemently deny they lean one way or another, Rachlinski said.
Rachlinski and Parks alleged that many people unconsciously view black faces more negatively than white ones and that this may make them less likely to vote for Obama, despite his message of change:
“People talk about the need for change, but when a new candidate gets on the scene, suddenly experience starts to matter,” Rachlinski said. “(Bias) changes the field…”
The duo also [said] that McCain’s campaign is exploiting racism by criticizing Obama’s lack of experience:
An example is the commercials the McCain campaign has made about Obama, which use words such as ‘risky' and ‘dangerous' to describe the Democratic candidate. Words such as that resonate with the unconscious bias, the researchers argue.“Raising a question like, ‘Who is the ‘real' Barack Obama?'... has consequences,” Parks said. “These raise unconscious concerns....”
The researchers also alleged that a person who calls the Democrat candidate by his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama” is a “lunatic,”
(Excerpt) Read more at federalreview.com ...
You forgot “angry” and “mean spirited” in your tagline
;)
McCain voters; Cornell researchers are closet racists.
I can do this all day.
These are Left-liberal agitprop articulators.
have they no shame?
>>>At this rate, running against President for Life Obama will be outlawed as a form of “hate speech.”<<<
That’s the goal. Any kind of censorship eventually turns into a tool of oppression.
An accusation of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I’m a bigot. I admit it.
I carry within me a deep hatred for all things fascist.
Instead, they'd just declare that anybody who did run against Obama must be crazy, so they'll be taken to a special place to rest, for their own good.
-PJ
It's from Robert Putnam, a Harvard liberal and author of Bowling Alone (2000). It's a pdf link. The original HTML source was Blackwell, which has since been bought by Wiley Interscience, IIRC, is no longer available for free. All the cached HTML links have been scrubbed clean. Here are two reviews.
Robert Putnam: Diversity Is Our Destruction Patrick J. Buchanan
Bowling with Others James Q. Wilson
The racism and/or mistrust is universal amongst all groups.
Their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelt of elderberries.
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