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I'm a bit confused - am I a racist?

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By:
PatraTheCat
When: 05 Sep 14 20:03
Charlie,

Regarding your first point, psychologists have demonstrated that showing photos of black men bring to mind more negative images and words than with white men. I can't rememeber the details of the experiments but they were fairly convincing.

The interesting thing is that the author of the book took the test and corroborated the result, even though he was half black himself!

I suppose that it's more accurate to say that we're naturally groupist, and will have formed certain opinions about certain racial groups that naturally and involuntarily come to mind when we see people of those races.
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PatraTheCat
When: 05 Sep 14 20:03
Regarding your last point, fair enough.
By:
Charlie
When: 05 Sep 14 20:31
Patra
"psychologists have demonstrated that showing photos of black men bring to mind more negative images and words than with white men. I can't rememeber the details of the experiments but they were fairly convincing."
The details are important  Who were shown the photos? And how does that prove "natural racism". 

Racism is 'hardwired' into the human brain - and people can be prejudiced without knowing it. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164844/Racism-hardwired-human-brain--people-racists-knowing-it.html#ixzz3CTFYRV14
But look at source.

Also look at this: New Evidence That Racism Isn't 'Natural' http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/new-evidence-that-racism-isnt-natural/263785/

Or maybe this: http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/racism_natural.html

These are hardly academic sources but do illustrate the problem of assuming "natural racism".

Get a group of "normal" 2-5 year olds of different races.  Do you think that they would exhibit racist tendencies?  I think not; they wouldn't be naturally racist.
By:
Charlie
When: 05 Sep 14 20:42
Patra
Apologies by the way if I appear a bit aggressive with replies, I don't mean to be it's just my style of writing.
By:
PatraTheCat
When: 05 Sep 14 23:24
Charlie,

No problem.

OK, I've just had another look at the book (Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell), and then I went to the actual website (implicit.harvard.edu) and did the test itself (you don't have to give your email address). Basically, you've got to sort faces in the categories black or white. You also have to sort words into good (e.g. glorious, love) or bad (e.g. evil, nasty). The words or faces flash up one at a time. The interesting parts are:

1. When you have to put white faces or good words into one category, and black faces or bad words into another category.
2. When you have to put white faces or bad words into one category, and black faces or good words into another category.

It's way easier with 1 than with 2. Try it.

Now, I'm not suggesting that we're born racist, more than we're born with a tendency to put people into groups, and that by the time you're an adult, you're probably subconsciously associating white people with good things and black people with bad things.

Seriously, try the test.
By:
Emden
When: 06 Sep 14 00:57
EVERYONE is racist to some extent - even if they deny it!
By:
call me a taxi
When: 06 Sep 14 01:52
Charlie was relatively quiet for 13 years.
By:
Schalke 04
When: 06 Sep 14 05:39
I would say, no, you are not racist ... it's a word I think should be banned and never mentioned again ... we are allowed to dislike anything we want on this planet. Why should I be told who, or what I have to like
By:
cloughandtaylor
When: 06 Sep 14 10:00
The new world order seems to think the western world needs to live in a nanny state, no name calling or bullying.

Worrying thing for me is that we are being groomed by the EU of all people, the political wing of the treacherous Nazi movement.

They are concerned with terms like racism, yet create ideal conditions for slavery, people trafficking, rape and abuse of children and other vile crimes.
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