H**e Obama half as much: Should you h**e Obama half as much as you do other b****s? After all, he is only half black. Should you h**e Obama or get a job? A Bad Economy Can Make People...

Glaucon

Should you h**e Obama half as much as you do other b****s? After all, he is only half black.

Should you h**e Obama or get a job?

A Bad Economy Can Make People More R****t
BY BRYCE COVERT

A new study has found that economic scarcity makes people more likely to see African-Americans as blacker and more stereotypical. This perception, according to New York University researchers Amy Krosch and David Amodio, leads people to hold back resources from the those perceived as darker.
Krosch and Amodio conducted four different tests to come to this conclusion. In the first, subjects completed a questionnaire about economic competition for limited resources between black and w***e A******ns and then viewed a series of faces that ranged from completely stereotypically white to completely stereotypically black, with more mixed-race features in between. Those who had stronger beliefs about conflicts with zero source resources between races saw the mixed-face faces as blacker than the faces actually rated on an objective scale.
The next experiment had subjects go through the same facial race identifying task while words were presented quickly before they viewed each one. The words either represented scarcity for example, the word scarcity itself or were negative in another way (for example, brutal) or simply neutral (fluffy). Those who saw the scarcity words saw mixed-race faces as significantly blacker than those who saw the other negative words or the neutral ones. In fact, the negative words unrelated to race had no impact compared to neutral ones. These results demonstrated that scarcity, but not general negativity, shifted subjects perceptual threshold for race, the researchers write.
The third experiment gave subjects $10 to allocate to someone else, but under different conditions: some were told they were given $10 out of a possible $100, while others were told the maximum was $10. Those who were in the scarce conditions saw faces as darker and more stereotypically black than those who felt they had the largest possible pot.
These results demonstrated that, compared with a control condition, perceived scarcity elicited internal mental representations of Black people as Blackera distortion that, given past research, should facilitate discrimination, the researchers write.
And in a final test, they found that was the case. Subjects were asked how they would divide $15 between a darker and a more neutral mixed-race face. They found that subjects gave significantly less money to the darker face, even though most subjects attempted to be egalitarian, they note. [T]his pattern revealed a causal process whereby scarcity led subjects to view Black faces as Blacker, which in turn led to a disparity in money allocation, they conclude.
All of the results, of course, were conducted in lab conditions, not observed in the real world. But the results are troubling. The researchers note that past research has found that discrimination against African Americans is magnified for those viewed as more prototypically Black (i.e., as having darker skin tone and more Afrocentric features). That means they are more likely to be socially excluded, shot when unarmed in a police training task, and sentenced to death after a guilty verdict. Their experiments show that this discrimination can be brought about by tight economic circumstances. Their results present evidence that economic scarcity enhances discrimination and contributes to racial disparities, which may contribute to the widening of racial disparities during economic distress.
This may contribute to the fact that the recession has taken a much harder toll on the black community than the white one. While the unemployment rate has been falling, the black rate still remains double the white one. Far more black workers are underemployed either jobless and seeking work, want work but have given up the search, or working part time but wanting to be full time than white workers. Even black college graduates have been experiencing particularly high unemployment and underemployment rates. Of those who have jobs, fewer of them work in top occupations or positions since the recession.
The researchers also note that the recession was a major blow to African American wealth but less of one for white people: median household wealth fell by 53 percent for black households and just 16 percent for white ones. The wealth gap between w****s and b****s nearly doubled during the recession, and white families went from being about four times as wealthy as nonwhite ones before it hit to six times as wealthy after the crisis.

JMHO Loc: Utah

Glaucon wrote:

Should you h**e Obama half as much as you do other b****s? After all, he is only half black.

Should you h**e Obama or get a job?

A Bad Economy Can Make People More R****t
BY BRYCE COVERT

A new study has found that economic scarcity makes people more likely to see African-Americans as blacker and more stereotypical. This perception, according to New York University researchers Amy Krosch and David Amodio, leads people to hold back resources from the those perceived as darker.
Krosch and Amodio conducted four different tests to come to this conclusion. In the first, subjects completed a questionnaire about economic competition for limited resources between black and w***e A******ns and then viewed a series of faces that ranged from completely stereotypically white to completely stereotypically black, with more mixed-race features in between. Those who had stronger beliefs about conflicts with zero source resources between races saw the mixed-face faces as blacker than the faces actually rated on an objective scale.
The next experiment had subjects go through the same facial race identifying task while words were presented quickly before they viewed each one. The words either represented scarcity for example, the word scarcity itself or were negative in another way (for example, brutal) or simply neutral (fluffy). Those who saw the scarcity words saw mixed-race faces as significantly blacker than those who saw the other negative words or the neutral ones. In fact, the negative words unrelated to race had no impact compared to neutral ones. These results demonstrated that scarcity, but not general negativity, shifted subjects perceptual threshold for race, the researchers write.
The third experiment gave subjects $10 to allocate to someone else, but under different conditions: some were told they were given $10 out of a possible $100, while others were told the maximum was $10. Those who were in the scarce conditions saw faces as darker and more stereotypically black than those who felt they had the largest possible pot.
These results demonstrated that, compared with a control condition, perceived scarcity elicited internal mental representations of Black people as Blackera distortion that, given past research, should facilitate discrimination, the researchers write.
And in a final test, they found that was the case. Subjects were asked how they would divide $15 between a darker and a more neutral mixed-race face. They found that subjects gave significantly less money to the darker face, even though most subjects attempted to be egalitarian, they note. (T)his pattern revealed a causal process whereby scarcity led subjects to view Black faces as Blacker, which in turn led to a disparity in money allocation, they conclude.
All of the results, of course, were conducted in lab conditions, not observed in the real world. But the results are troubling. The researchers note that past research has found that discrimination against African Americans is magnified for those viewed as more prototypically Black (i.e., as having darker skin tone and more Afrocentric features). That means they are more likely to be socially excluded, shot when unarmed in a police training task, and sentenced to death after a guilty verdict. Their experiments show that this discrimination can be brought about by tight economic circumstances. Their results present evidence that economic scarcity enhances discrimination and contributes to racial disparities, which may contribute to the widening of racial disparities during economic distress.
This may contribute to the fact that the recession has taken a much harder toll on the black community than the white one. While the unemployment rate has been falling, the black rate still remains double the white one. Far more black workers are underemployed either jobless and seeking work, want work but have given up the search, or working part time but wanting to be full time than white workers. Even black college graduates have been experiencing particularly high unemployment and underemployment rates. Of those who have jobs, fewer of them work in top occupations or positions since the recession.
The researchers also note that the recession was a major blow to African American wealth but less of one for white people: median household wealth fell by 53 percent for black households and just 16 percent for white ones. The wealth gap between w****s and b****s nearly doubled during the recession, and white families went from being about four times as wealthy as nonwhite ones before it hit to six times as wealthy after the crisis.

Should you h**e Obama half as much as you do other... (show quote)

What a crock of liberal crap! Bryce Covert writes for the liberal blog thinkprogress.org. I wonder how much "grant" money these leftie wackos got from the government?

Kevyn

JMHO wrote:

What a crock of liberal crap! Bryce Covert writes for the liberal blog thinkprogress.org. I wonder how much "grant" money these leftie wackos got from the government?

How insightful, a peer reviewed scientific study dosnt hold a candle to your enlightened opinion.

Glaucon

JMHO wrote:

What a crock of liberal crap! Bryce Covert writes for the liberal blog thinkprogress.org. I wonder how much "grant" money these leftie wackos got from the government?

Even some of the people who think about this may agree with you. Most of those who knee jerk dismiss it because it comes from Thinkprogress will kneejerk accept wh**ever Fox Noise tells them to think.

One person on this site commented that she demanded that a particular book be banned in our public schools because it was "c*******tic." I attempted to have an exchange of opinions with her until she revealed that she hadn't read the book and was merely knee jerking from the title of the book and its author. How can democracy survive such profound ignorance?

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

ThinkProgress has a long history of lying with zero corrections much unlike FOX NEWS but that's fine if you like being lied to, am betting if you lie to your wife or friends over and over you have problems!

Small example of the outright lies:
http://mypoliticalintervention.com/2012/05/15/think-progress-lies/

Glaucon wrote:

Even some of the people who think about this may a... (show quote)

The Dutchman

bmac32 wrote:

ThinkProgress has a long history of lying with zero corrections much unlike FOX NEWS but that's fine if you like being lied to, am betting if you lie to your wife or friends over and over you have problems!
Small example of the outright lies:
http://mypoliticalintervention.com/2012/05/15/think-progress-lies/

It's nothing but a far left radical liberal left-leaning think tank. All it does is feed these brain washed libtards with more phony crap to spew....

The Dutchman

Kevyn wrote:

How insightful, a peer reviewed scientific study dosnt hold a candle to your enlightened opinion.

Holding your farts in again Eh!

JMHO Loc: Utah

Kevyn wrote:

How insightful, a peer reviewed scientific study dosnt hold a candle to your enlightened opinion.

Yeah, and I bet you believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy too?

The Dutchman

Glaucon wrote:

Even some of the people who think about this may a... (show quote)

Thinkprogress = Far left wing radical think tank that puts out nothing but liberal crap....

Rufus Loc: Deep South

JMHO wrote:

What a crock of liberal crap! Bryce Covert writes for the liberal blog thinkprogress.org. I wonder how much "grant" money these leftie wackos got from the government?

This kind of liberal crap gives us a better understanding of who Glaucon is. I hope and pray to God that Glaucon is not being paid for his services. If he is we all can agree as an entire group on this forum that money could and should be put to better use.

The Dutchman

Rufus wrote:

This kind of liberal crap gives us a better understanding of who Glaucon is. I hope and pray to God that Glaucon is not being paid for his services. If he is we all can agree as an entire group on this forum that money could and should be put to better use.

Glaucon, He??

Glaucon

Glaucon wrote:

Should you h**e Obama half as much as you do other b****s? After all, he is only half black.

Should you h**e Obama or get a job?

A Bad Economy Can Make People More R****t
BY BRYCE COVERT

A new study has found that economic scarcity makes people more likely to see African-Americans as blacker and more stereotypical. This perception, according to New York University researchers Amy Krosch and David Amodio, leads people to hold back resources from the those perceived as darker.
Krosch and Amodio conducted four different tests to come to this conclusion. In the first, subjects completed a questionnaire about economic competition for limited resources between black and w***e A******ns and then viewed a series of faces that ranged from completely stereotypically white to completely stereotypically black, with more mixed-race features in between. Those who had stronger beliefs about conflicts with zero source resources between races saw the mixed-face faces as blacker than the faces actually rated on an objective scale.
The next experiment had subjects go through the same facial race identifying task while words were presented quickly before they viewed each one. The words either represented scarcity for example, the word scarcity itself or were negative in another way (for example, brutal) or simply neutral (fluffy). Those who saw the scarcity words saw mixed-race faces as significantly blacker than those who saw the other negative words or the neutral ones. In fact, the negative words unrelated to race had no impact compared to neutral ones. These results demonstrated that scarcity, but not general negativity, shifted subjects perceptual threshold for race, the researchers write.
The third experiment gave subjects $10 to allocate to someone else, but under different conditions: some were told they were given $10 out of a possible $100, while others were told the maximum was $10. Those who were in the scarce conditions saw faces as darker and more stereotypically black than those who felt they had the largest possible pot.
These results demonstrated that, compared with a control condition, perceived scarcity elicited internal mental representations of Black people as Blackera distortion that, given past research, should facilitate discrimination, the researchers write.
And in a final test, they found that was the case. Subjects were asked how they would divide $15 between a darker and a more neutral mixed-race face. They found that subjects gave significantly less money to the darker face, even though most subjects attempted to be egalitarian, they note. [T]his pattern revealed a causal process whereby scarcity led subjects to view Black faces as Blacker, which in turn led to a disparity in money allocation, they conclude.
All of the results, of course, were conducted in lab conditions, not observed in the real world. But the results are troubling. The researchers note that past research has found that discrimination against African Americans is magnified for those viewed as more prototypically Black (i.e., as having darker skin tone and more Afrocentric features). That means they are more likely to be socially excluded, shot when unarmed in a police training task, and sentenced to death after a guilty verdict. Their experiments show that this discrimination can be brought about by tight economic circumstances. Their results present evidence that economic scarcity enhances discrimination and contributes to racial disparities, which may contribute to the widening of racial disparities during economic distress.
This may contribute to the fact that the recession has taken a much harder toll on the black community than the white one. While the unemployment rate has been falling, the black rate still remains double the white one. Far more black workers are underemployed either jobless and seeking work, want work but have given up the search, or working part time but wanting to be full time than white workers. Even black college graduates have been experiencing particularly high unemployment and underemployment rates. Of those who have jobs, fewer of them work in top occupations or positions since the recession.
The researchers also note that the recession was a major blow to African American wealth but less of one for white people: median household wealth fell by 53 percent for black households and just 16 percent for white ones. The wealth gap between w****s and b****s nearly doubled during the recession, and white families went from being about four times as wealthy as nonwhite ones before it hit to six times as wealthy after the crisis.

Should you h**e Obama half as much as you do other... (show quote)

Apparently, you should h**e this article because you don't like the source or the author. You don't need to do no stinkin reading and considering the content of the article. This is an opinion piece and is labeled as such. Some of the comments of the extremists are understandable and some are merely evidence of very closed minds. Also, I am amazed at the rage the mere existence of the article - no need to read and consider it, apparently - as evidenced by the insulting and d********g language. Aren't we Americans better than that?

Glaucon

The Dutchman wrote:

Thinkprogress = Far left wing radical think tank that puts out nothing but liberal crap....

Apparently, you should h**e the article because you don't like the source or the author. You don't need to do no stinkin reading and considering the content of the article.

It is an opinion piece and is labeled as such. Some of the comments of the extremists are understandable and some are merely evidence of very closed minds. Also, I am amazed at the rage the mere existence of the article - no need to read and consider it, apparently - as evidenced by the insulting and d********g language. Aren't we Americans better and smarter than that?

The Dutchman

[quote=Glaucon]Apparently, you should h**e the article because you don't like the source or the author. You don't need to do no stinkin reading and considering the content of the article. [quote]

Let's try it again ;
Thinkprogress = Far left wing radical think tank that puts out nothing but liberal crap....

Glaucon

The Dutchman wrote:

Thinkprogress = Far left wing radical think tank that puts out nothing but liberal crap....

Ductchman, you seem to get yourself in such a state of rage that your "responses" usually merely restate your exploding rage, but have nothing to do with the posts you have obviously ignored. I wouldn't say you are closed minded, but that is just because I am a nice guy. You seem to be absolute about everything, including not liking "liberal crap." However, you seem to have a knee jerk acceptance of right wing extremist crap. At least that doesn't require you to think.