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In reply to the discussion: "The new threat: 'Racism without racists'" [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)The problem with a lot of these types of studies, sadly, is that, way too often, they either use bad methodology, or they start out with already predetermined outcomes; that is, the study is heavily skewed by what they already believe is true.
I'm not saying that sociology is all B.S., btw: there has indeed been some good stuff coming out of that field. But it does have it's issues at times, however.
Evolutionary psychology seems to be the biggest factor here, however: Evo-psych has actually been called into question by a number of people over the years for it's rather dubious general premise, and what should bother most Democrats on this site, I would think, that it's been used by less scrupulous elements(like MRAs for instance) over the years to justify things such as misogyny, racism, and plenty of other things that lefties as a whole are mostly opposed to.