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You need to continuously link websites that prove to your facebook "friends" that you are in fact totally not a racist.
Oddly of my countless "friends" on facebook only the one friend, who comes off as a dog whistle racist by the posts he chooses to share with the world, feels the need to tell me at least once a week that he is in fact totally not a racist. No other friend on facebook needs to inform me they're not a racist-EVER. I wonder why that is?
For instance this lovely little video from Prager University that proves that you, the racist, are totally not a racist, but "those people", the ones pointing out how incredibly racist you are, totally and completely are racist for pointing out you are a racist. Shame on them
Warning do not attempt to drink milk while watching the video on the linked site. The video is known to cause unintentional liquid ejection from the nostril area.
http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Who-Are-the-Racists-Conservatives-or-Liberals.html#.VEvMhhaW5gd
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)His head will explode.
brush
(53,901 posts)It's just repug talking points.
Is that your point?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Conservatives are only interested in having their bias confirmed. There's no convincing them in one way or the other with facts.
There's No Arguing With Conservatives ... No, Seriously, Scientific Studies Prove It
A new study out of Yale University confirms what argumentative liberals have long-known: Offering reality-based rebuttals to conservative lies only makes conservatives cling to those lies even harder. In essence, schooling conservatives makes them more stupid. From the Washington Post article on the study, which came out yesterday:
A similar "backfire effect" also influenced conservatives told about Bush administration assertions that tax cuts increase federal revenue. One group was offered a refutation by prominent economists that included current and former Bush administration officials. About 35 percent of conservatives told about the Bush claim believed it; 67 percent of those provided with both assertion and refutation believed that tax cuts increase revenue.
In a paper approaching publication, Nyhan, a PhD student at Duke University, and Reifler, at Georgia State University, suggest that Republicans might be especially prone to the backfire effect because conservatives may have more rigid views than liberals: Upon hearing a refutation, conservatives might "argue back" against the refutation in their minds, thereby strengthening their belief in the misinformation. Nyhan and Reifler did not see the same "backfire effect" when liberals were given misinformation and a refutation about the Bush administration's stance on stem cell research.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/theres-no-arguing-with-co_b_126805.html?ref=fb&src=sp
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)If you look up 'confirmation bias' in a dictionary, they have a picture of Dennis.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)That is ALSO racism.....though these guys probably won't admit to the latter, of course.