Posted on 11/28/2018 6:38:02 PM PST by Kaslin
The Democrats are the party of Jim Crow, black codes, and the Ku Klux Klan—but it’s the GOP that’s racist and has a racist history, or something. These historical debates get the Left and Right going on social media. Yet, a new study just drives the heart into the whole notion that liberalism is open and averse to racism. It’s the seat of irony. The report found that white liberals dumb themselves down while interacting with minorities in order to get along with them (via Yale Insights):
Racial bias can put people of color at a disadvantage when interviewing for a job, buying a house, or interacting with the police. 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.
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.”
Dupree and her co-author, Susan Fiske of Princeton University, began by analyzing the words used in campaign speeches delivered by Democratic and Republican presidential candidates to different audiences over the years. They scanned 74 speeches delivered by white candidates over a 25-year period. Approximately half were addressed to mostly-minority audiences—at a Hispanic small business roundtable discussion or a black church, for example. They then paired each speech delivered to a mostly-minority audience with a comparable speech delivered at a mostly-white audience—at a mostly-white church or university, for example. The researchers analyzed the text of these speeches for two measures: words related to competence (that is, words about ability or status, such as “assertive” or “competitive”) and words related to warmth (that is, words about friendliness, such as “supportive” and “compassionate”).
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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.
Gee—I wonder why white liberals feel the need to dumb themselves down in front of non-whites. Is it because they find them…incompetent? That appears to be the case (via Washington Times):
“It was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this subtle but persistent effect,” Ms. Dupree said. “Even if it’s ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing.”
The study flies in the face of a standard talking point of the political left—that white conservatives are racist—while raising questions about whether liberals are perpetuating racial stereotypes about blacks being less competent than whites.
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The researchers then set up an experiment in which white liberals were asked to respond to hypothetical individuals named “Emily” and “Lakisha.”
“[L]iberal 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,” said the release. “No significant differences were seen in the word selection of conservatives based on the presumed race of their partner.”
Ms. Dupree said the “competence downshift” could indicate a greater eagerness by white liberals to connect with those of other races.
“My hope is that this work will help include well-intentioned people who see themselves as allies but who may be unwittingly contributing to group divides,” said Ms. Dupree. “There is a broader need to include them in the conversation.”
Still, a white liberal making him (or her) seem dumb because they find the non-white they’re interacting with less competent. That seems…pretty racist.
Yikes: According to a Yale study, Democrats make themselves seem dumber when speaking to minorities... because they perceive minorities to be less competent.
Which by the way, means they're racist.
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“I don’t feel no ways tard”.
Are the “white liberals” really “dumbing themselves down” OR aren’t they just NATURALLY dumb anyway???
Hmmm....whats the real answer???
Oh, that Liberal funny vibe.
This is so easy to see everywhere you look. The bigotry of low expectations. Black people could never find a way to get ID cards. I mean, how racist is that?
I have a last name that sounds “ethnic” so we have gotten mail from banks etc that were so patronizing it made me sick. We always automatically get the free lunch packet though we don’t qualify. You see how low the expectations are from lefties toward minorities.
I wonder what their definition of "people who hold racial bias" is? Could it be that it was "conservative=racially biased," without any determination of whether those people actually held a racial bias?
The study flies in the face of a standard talking point of the political left—that white conservatives are racist—while raising questions about whether liberals are perpetuating racial stereotypes about blacks being less competent than whites.
Who pushes racial quotas and affirmative action? What are those policies, if not enshrining liberal biases and beliefs about minorities into law? If liberals really believed that minorities are their intellectual equals, they would not insist on affirmative action policies. Quite simply, the liberals that support affirmative action are making a very clear statement that they do not believe that minorities are capable of performing on a level playing field.
Ms. Dupree said the “competence downshift” could indicate a greater eagerness by white liberals to connect with those of other races.
Or it reflects a deep-seated liberal bias that minorities are too stupid to speak intelligently. The bias is so ingrained in their thinking that they are incapable of even perceiving that a minority might be just as smart and capable as a white person. Instead, they would rather rant about "white privilege"--which, again, is a statement that they consider minorities intellectual inferiors.
Goldwater the R was against Civil Rights. The Republicans nominated him to be president.
The results showed a dumbing down. Not a baseline dumb. A dumbing down.
The answer is liberals are the source and the domicile of all racism.
AND they are baseline dumb
We’ve known this for a while now. I hope this was written up in more publications than Townhall.com. If not - no liberal will ever see it.
Perhaps they are adjusting their speech to the audience.
It appears to work, since they are receiving 80+% of the Black Vote.
The ugly fact is, as one can easily see by looking at voting records; Blacks like to spoken to as children. They just hate it when it is pointed out. Otherwise they would not blame the speakers.
So how about dem Bears?
That's the whole idea behind this article. No one really likes being patronized if they know it's happening.
I don't know if *that's* what's working. A good portion vote straight democrat out of sheer habit. That's why I love young black leaders like Candace Owens, who aren't afraid to speak the truth and encourage minority Americans to think for themselves...don't just follow the crowd. People of many colors are still walking away from the Democratic Party for the very reason that they are tired of being made the victim and told they can't do it on their own. They are tired of "being spoken to as children".
I agree with this line in the piece-
Still, a white liberal making him (or her) seem dumb because they find the non-white they’re interacting with less competent. That seems…pretty racist.
Yes, it does. People are waking up and I'm glad.
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