and instead pivot to attack and blame a black man, who had everything going against him yet graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School... and then double down on his skin color being the only reason why he succeeded, is the type of bullshit that many of us are sick and fucking tired of.
Her comments were racist which makes her one.
Yesterday, I saw an article in the Washington Post with the results of a recent study -
White liberals dumb themselves down when they speak to black people, a new study contends
By Isaac Stanley-Becker
November 30
You have recently joined a book club. Before each meeting, one member of the literary collective sends an email to the club secretary offering a few thoughts on the assigned text. This month, it’s your turn to compose the brief review.
A new study suggests that the words you use may depend on whether the club secretary’s name is Emily (“a stereotypically White name,” as the study says) or Lakisha (“a stereotypically Black name”). If you’re a white liberal writing to Emily, you might use words like “melancholy” or “euphoric” to describe the mood of the book, whereas you might trade these terms out for the simpler “sad” or “happy” if you’re corresponding with Lakisha. But if you’re a white conservative, your diction won’t depend on the presumed race of your interlocutor.
This racial and political disparity is among the discoveries made by a pair of social psychologists in a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association. Cydney Dupree, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, and Susan Fiske, a professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton, documented what they call a “competence downshift” exhibited by white liberals in interactions with racial minorities, and with black people in particular.
The findings, based on what the authors stress is “preliminary evidence,” raise difficult questions about aspirations for a so-called post-racial society. The results reveal how subtle forms of discrimination may coincide with progress toward equal treatment, or what the paper identifies as “a significant reduction in the expression of explicit prejudice and endorsement of negative stereotypes.” The psychologists further discovered that white liberals rarely admit to the goal of appearing less competent, a fact that highlights the role of implicit bias and “the covert nature of the competence downshift strategy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/white-liberals-dumb-themselves-down-when-they-speak-black-people-new-study-contends/?utm_term=.a908f884646f
The study was earlier reported here -
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/white-liberals-present-themselves-as-less-competent-in-interactions-with-african-americans
and the actual report was put online here -
https://psyarxiv.com/pv2ab/
Suffice it to say, I was going to post it but decided not to because I expected any discussion would need my participatory time and I have so many other things that I am trying to do. But it pretty much fits into some of Ferraro's problem and all it does is invoke Fannie Lou Hamer's exhortation in my mind, of "being sick and tired of being sick and tired". And I am sick and tired of the Ferraros and those like her, including the enumerable ones who call 911 on black folk because they are easy targets for her to exert
her "power" against when
her own "man" (father, husband, brother, son, uncle, nephew) marginalizes her, and she knows she will get her (white) "man's" support for doing so.
I voted for her and Mondale in 1984 but fuck her now (and I know she is no longer with us).
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