Kanye West was right Bush and the Republicans really do hate black people

[kpete]

Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases

By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 30, 2006; Page A05

Put a group of people together at a party and observe how they behave. Differently than when they are alone? Differently than when they are with family? What if they're in a stadium instead of at a party? What if they're all men?

The field of social psychology has long been focused on how social environments affect the way people behave. But social psychologists are people, too, and as the United States has become increasingly politically polarized, they have grown increasingly interested in examining what drives these sharp divides: red states vs. blue states; pro-Iraq war vs. anti-Iraq war; pro-same-sex marriage vs. anti-same-sex marriage. And they have begun to study political behavior using such specialized tools as sophisticated psychological tests and brain scans.


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That study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did.

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"If anyone in Washington is skeptical about these findings, they are in denial," he said. "We have 50 years of evidence that racial prejudice predicts voting. Republicans are supported by whites with prejudice against blacks. If people say, 'This takes me aback,' they are ignoring a huge volume of research."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900642.html

[Atman]

1. Wow.

That's some great ammo there! Thanks.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. And the rest of us are going, DUUUUUUUUHHHHH...

The last ones to know, are Republicans. They really, really want to believe that minorities are not discriminated against, at the same time that they're saying that minority owned businesses aren't as reliable as white owned businesse.

[joemurphy]

2. Do you mean Kanye West? n/t

[kpete]

7. Thanks

Sometimes, cutting and pasting is "HARD WORK"

[trotsky]

3. File this under "The Pope is Catholic".

Jeebus, the most conservative people I've known have also been the most racist and hateful.

[PDJane]

6. You are right there..........

Equal opportunity bigots, though.....I think they hate everyone equally, regardless of race, creed, colour or sexual orientation. It's just easier to get them to spill it if there's a visible difference.

[ET Awful]

4. That's "Kanye" West.

Just for accuracy.

[leftchick]

5. Kanye West

and I want a tee shirt that says republicans hate black people.

[BlueEyedSon]

8. No, Bush takes care of the haves & have-mores. Everyone else can get lost

regardless of color.

[ComerPerro]

9. Conservatives may hate to admit it, but its true. They aren't as overtly

racist as they may have been in the past, but that's not because they have become more tolerant.

The reason racism is more disguised and concealed is because we have built a society that doesn't tolerate that kind of shit. If people say racist and bigoted things, they will be called out on it, sometimes by complete strangers.

But that doesn't mean they still don't harbor prejudices or bigotry...

[BOSSHOG]

11. Its just one more thing they are not hiding!

[leftchick]

12. I lost the only repuke "friend" I had after calling his racism out

He is a neighbor and our children are friends. It happened last fall after Katrina. There it was in all of its awful color, his full blown bigotry. I don't believe I have said more than hello to him since then.

You are right on how they conceal it and I believe they are in denial. The neighbor still does not understand why I became so angry according to his wife. :eyes:

[tsuki]

13. They don't disguise it much down here. The "n" word is all the

rage at parties. They tell their stories, and when you look at them in disgust, they say, "can'tcha take a joke."

No, I cannot. It makes me want to :puke:

And before you think that I am talking about "rednecks," these are muddled class income earners.

[ComerPerro]

14. Well, yeah, they don't always hide it. Just this weekend

I was at a train platform in St Louis with my girlfriend and overhead some guy looking in our direction and talking about "biracial couples". I couldn't hear everything he was saying, but he wasn't exactly covert or quiet about it.

Mad me very angry... But there were three guys, and only me and one other guy in my group, so I didn't want to say or do anything that would start a fight.

I talked to the other guy I was with about it later, and he had heard it too.

Both couples are inter-racial, so that's probably why that idiot at the train station commented....

Some people...


Sigh...

[tsuki]

15. Yes, that's what I mean. They are so open about their bigotry.

They assume everyone feels the way they do, so they blast it out.

Three more years of Bush and the Beltway Bullies, and we'll have state approved, faith based, KKK marches.

[ComerPerro]

16. You got that right