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^Folks! This is a sign, a sobering message alerting our community to fact that full reconciliation is impossible. Period. Self-determination (in publishing, media, education, infrastructure, etc) is the only answer. This is just ridiculous!
quote:In zero sum game, 'reverse racism' seen as bigger problem than anti-black racism
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Whites believe that they are replacing blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election.
Both whites and blacks agree that anti-black racism has decreased over the last 60 years, according to the study. However, whites believe that anti-white racism has increased and is now a bigger problem than anti-black racism.
"It's a pretty surprising finding when you think of the wide range of disparities that still exist in society, most of which show black Americans with worse outcomes than whites in areas such as income, home ownership, health and employment," said Tufts Associate Professor of Psychology Samuel Sommers, Ph.D., co-author of "Whites See Racism as a Zero-sum Game that They Are Now Losing," which appears in the May 2011 issue of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Sommers and co-author Michael I. Norton of Harvard asked a nation-wide sample of 208 blacks and 209 whites to indicate the extent to which they felt blacks and whites were the targets of discrimination in each decade from the 1950s to the 2000s. A scale of 1 to 10 was used, with 1 being "not at all" and 10 being "very much."
White and black estimates of bias in the 1950s were similar. Both groups acknowledged little racism against whites at that time but substantial racism against blacks. Respondents also generally agreed that racism against blacks has decreased over time, although whites believed it has declined faster than blacks do.
However, whites believed that racism against whites has increased significantly as racism against blacks has decreased. On average, whites rated anti-white bias as more prevalent in the 2000s than anti-black bias by more than a full point on the 10-point scale. Moreover, some 11 percent of whites gave anti-white bias the maximum rating of 10 compared to only 2 percent of whites who rated anti-black bias a 10. Blacks, however, reported only a modest increase in their perceptions of "reverse racism."
"These data are the first to demonstrate that not only do whites think more progress has been made toward equality than do blacks, but whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a new inequality – at their expense," note Norton and Sommers. Whites see racial equality as a zero sum game, in which gains for one group mean losses for the other.
The belief that anti-white bias is more prevalent than anti-black bias has clear implications for future public policy debates and behavioral science research, say the authors. They note that claims of so-called reverse racism, while not new, have been at the core of an increasing number of high-profile Supreme Court cases.
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It is true, whites are victims of reverse-racism. In today's society, whites are victims of popular-racism, thanks to hiphop and white liberal guilt. The only reason why Blacks have dismal economic and social outcomes is because of their self-entitlement attitude, a component to reverse racism.
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quote:Originally posted by Sundjata: ^Folks! This is a sign, a sobering message alerting our community to fact that full reconciliation is impossible. Period. Self-determination (in publishing, media, education, infrastructure, etc) is the only answer. This is just ridiculous!
So you are a black nationalist now?
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I refuse to indulge that nonsense. The main issue for me is here:
quote:The belief that anti-white bias is more prevalent than anti-black bias has clear implications for future public policy debates and behavioral science research, say the authors. They note that claims of so-called reverse racism, while not new, have been at the core of an increasing number of high-profile Supreme Court cases.
^Hence, we've reached a stalemate. The fact that incompetent whites see this as a zero sum game means that progressive trends that tend to benefit Blacks are automatically seen as an affront to whites! These people (in the survey and to whom their opinions can be extrapolated) are crabs, period.
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quote:Originally posted by Sundjata: ^Folks! This is a sign, a sobering message alerting our community to fact that full reconciliation is impossible. Period. Self-determination (in publishing, media, education, infrastructure, etc) is the only answer. This is just ridiculous!
So you are a black nationalist now?
No, but I AM starting to see where you were coming from, honestly.
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That finding makes me feel very embarrassed to be a white American. So many of my people are goddamn ignorant and intellectually dishonest!
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^No need to "feel embarrassed" if you as an individual don't harbor such views and understand the social history of the United states is more complicated than polarized victimization. It's just a shame that this is now a majority view (among White Americans that is, who are the majority), no doubt fueled and perpetuated by media propaganda.
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I think this survey is misleading on some points. First off Whites might feel racism from other races other than blacks yet the Survey only included blacks and whites??? Also it is more damaging to be racist toward blacks than whites.
That said I don't think they are experiencing more racism, they just hate the fact that they will no longer be the Majority and that other races are moving up socially and politically.
To bad so sad, now they know how it feels. Remember all that White Supremacy, Aryan Race, Noble Savage and the Sun Never Setting on the British Empire, where they exploited and belittled and dehumanized others, well as the Bible says, You reap what you sow. Everything that is happening to them from Mass Immigration, Reverse Racism, etc. is a product of their Racialist forefathers.
Too Bad....So Sad..
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quote:Originally posted by Confirming Truth: It is true, whites are victims of reverse-racism. In today's society, whites are victims of popular-racism, thanks to hiphop and white liberal guilt. The only reason why Blacks have dismal economic and social outcomes is because of their self-entitlement attitude, a component to reverse racism.
"Reverse-Racism" is a phrase that implies only white people can be racist.
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^^^^ I thought Reverse racism was racism against whites by Minorities that does'nt get much attention..
Afronut wrote.. The only reason why Blacks have dismal economic and social outcomes is because of their self-entitlement attitude
The same can be said about whites who now feel as if THEY are victims because they feel that others are given more opportunities. If that is not a self-entitlement mindset and a victim mentality I don't know what is, but then again its coming from a 50 yrs old former Hebrew Isralite Rape Victim.
I used to think you were pullling folks arms but I starting think you are actually as ignorant as you portray yourself.
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Afronut wrote.. The only reason why Blacks have dismal economic and social outcomes is because of their self-entitlement attitude
The same can be said about whites who now feel as if THEY are victims because they feel that others are given more opportunities. If that is not a self-entitlement mindset and a victim mentality I don't know what is
Ha! The irony. I guess we have yet another case of empirical data debunking an ethnic stereotype.
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quote:The only reason why Blacks have dismal economic and social outcomes is because of their self-entitlement attitude, a component to reverse racism.
Read the book: A New introduction to Poverty, The Role of Race Power, and Politics.
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quote:I thought Reverse racism was racism against whites by Minorities that does'nt get much attention..
Your view attests to the implication being made by the phrase. If reverse racism is racism from minorities against white people then what is the belief to the contrary > Racism against minorities?
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Blacks and white will come together in a futile last ditch coalition to stop mulatto forces.
When it's all over the defeated pure-breds, people of the older world will be assigned inbred status and their populations will decline to a tiny minority on the road to extinction.
This process can't be stopped. It's the inevitable future of the modern world
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quote: First off Whites might feel racism from other races...
There is racism, and there is justifiable anger....'whites' practice racism; what they are receiving in return from others is justifiable anger....'white' people are not being systematically oppressed by other races...
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