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Racism and other in-group biases are an effect of leading people to see each other as different. If you highlight race, gender, orientation or any other number
by golemotron 10y ago
Racism and other in-group biases are an effect of leading people to see each other as different. If you highlight race, gender, orientation or any other number of things as categories you get in-group bias and out-group antipathy. This is basic social psychology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm
Isn't it sad to discover that some of the things we are doing to try to solve these problems may be making them worse?
- hackuser 10y agoI strongly disagree. Racism has long existed in American society and isn't going to disappear if it's ignored. Black Americans suffering from discrimination, and their fellow Americans who care about it, shouldn't keep quiet because it makes others uncomfortable. I've seen many, many excuses for not wanting to deal with the issue, but it's a serious problem and it's not going to go away.
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- golemotron 10y agoThe science doesn't go away just because you disagree with it. Please read into the references in that article. No one is saying to ignore racism. It's just that there may be more effective ways of tackling it.