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       Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 13, 2020, 11:17 pm
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       OLD CONTENT
       digest.bps.org.uk/2019/04/10/finally-some-research-into-whether-
       diversity-training-actually-works-unfortunately-its-not-very-pro
       mising/
       [quote]there’s little evidence-backed consensus about which
       sorts of diversity programmes work, and why, and there have been
       long-standing concerns in some quarters that these programmes
       don’t do much at all, or that they could actually be
       harmful.[/quote]
       Bigots cannot learn not to be bigots, and non-bigots never
       needed to learn it. The only way to end bigotry is to prohibit
       the bigoted from reproducing. We have been saying all this long
       ago.
       ---
       Someone starting to shift from False Left to True Left:
       www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/we-used-to-think-photos-l
       ike-this-could-change-the-world-what-needs-to-change-is-who-we-a
       re/2019/06/26/53c9087a-982d-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html
       [quote]We used to think photos like this could change the world.
       What needs to change is who we are.
       ...
       Salvadoran migrant Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his
       toddler daughter, Valeria, died Sunday after being swept away by
       a strong current while the family was trying to cross the Rio
       Grande into the United States. Unknown to most of the world
       until this week, they are now briefly famous, a toddler in red
       shorts and tiny shoes, tucked inside her father’s dark T-shirt,
       seemingly at rest as if napping with her dad on a hot afternoon.
       ...
       Because these images have already broken through our own
       resistance to seeing pain and tragedy in the world, we imagine
       that they must break through the collective conscience as
       powerful political icons. They enter our consciousness almost by
       stealth and then explode, and that is how we assume they’ll work
       in the public square, too.
       So the image gets shared on social media, and is seen repeatedly
       on cable television and sometimes in the pages of newspapers. As
       it circulates, we believe it will acquire enough force and
       familiarity that our political leaders will have to do something
       different — change policies, reverse course, revise their own
       understanding of the severity of a problem. For more than a
       century, this metaphor has been in operation behind the scenes
       whenever journalists, or activists, hold up photographs to the
       world, and say: This is a truth you must acknowledge.
       ...
       But when nationalism has successfully dehumanized the other,
       there is no breaking through, and people who imagine that a
       photographic message must assuredly be so powerful that it will
       touch all hearts are forced to grapple with a more confounding
       truth: Not all consciences operate alike, not everyone is
       susceptible to what seems a basic, even rudimentary level of
       empathy. And so, there is a paradox: We resist the idea of
       living in an us-vs.-them world only to find that our basic sense
       of “us” is already fractured. We look out at our fellow humans
       and can’t honestly understand how their minds work. At some
       level, we think, “Can’t you see what is happening in this
       image?” As if seeing and understanding are identical.
       ...
       You may look at this photo and think that its deep message is
       “We are all hoping for a better life and will take extraordinary
       risks on behalf of those we love.” But someone else will
       probably say, “People shouldn’t cross borders without
       permission.” The drowning becomes a kind of punishment, a river
       stands in for ideas of human authority, and the photograph
       doesn’t break through anything. It merely reiterates an old and
       cherished belief: Bad things happen to those who break the
       rules.
       There is a fundamental difference between these two
       interpretations: One requires time and effort, an act of engaged
       empathy, while the other is a quick judgment that reaffirms an
       existing sense of the world. The power of a photograph like this
       depends on the time we devote to it and our basic sense of who
       these people are. For the few hours or days that this photograph
       elicits chatter and argument, there will be efforts to make it
       an allegory of law and judgment rather than an opportunity for
       moral imagination and compassion.[/quote]
       The part in bold is the shift.
       There is no "paradox", however, and it is False Leftist to think
       that there is. Yes, we - like you - resist the idea of living in
       an us-vs-them world. But we - unlike you - do not resist the
       idea of living in a superior-vs-inferior world. Those who lack
       universalist empathy are inferior. They are not "our fellow
       humans", they are barbarians who should be exterminated.
       And the need for effort to empathize is itself a sign of
       inferiority, albeit on a more advanced tier. The truly empathic
       require no effort to empathize (if anything almost all our
       effort during most of our waking lives is spent on suppressing
       our empathy so that we can retain marginal functionality in
       mainstream society where we witness non-stop violence everywhere
       we look). But this is the difference between True Leftists and
       False Leftists. In the author's words, False Leftists possess a
       "resistance to seeing pain and tragedy in the world" (though to
       their credit they are at least willing to expend effort to
       overcome this resistance). True Leftists, in contrast, rarely
       see anything except pain and tragedy.
       Furthermore, this False Left author really does fail to
       understand how rightist minds work. Do you really think the
       rightists believe "people" shouldn't cross borders without
       permission? What rightists believe is that "non-whites"
       shouldn't cross borders without "white" permission, whereas
       "whites" can do Manifest Destiny for centuries without deserving
       any punishment whatsoever. And this is underpins the first
       point. "Whites" do not see "non-whites" as "people", so why
       should we see "whites" as "our fellow humans"?
       ---
       People are starting to understand what is required:
       www.infowars.com/death-camps-for-trump-supporters-posted-on-home
       s-cars-belonging-to-republican-congressmans-staff/
       [quote]The ‘death camps for Trump supporters’ fliers that were
       seen in New York yesterday have now been posted on homes and
       cars belonging to the staff of Republican Congressman Lee
       Zeldin.[/quote]
       Zeldin (Jew) is a notable critic of Omar.
       Unfortunately, AOC is not even close to getting it yet:
       news.yahoo.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-white-supremacists-09101
       5953.html
       [quote]But then Ocasio-Cortez made a direct appeal to racists
       and white supremacists ― and her message was simple: “Come
       back.”
       She also called on those “radicalized in a funnel of vitriol” to
       turn away from hate, promising that they would be welcomed with
       love in return:
       “There is a mother waiting for you, I know it. I know there’s a
       teacher waiting for you, saying, ‘What happened to my kid? What
       happened to my friend?’ And we will always be here and hold
       space for you to come back. We will love you back. You are not
       too far gone.”[/quote]
       They do not deserve our love. To love them despite what they
       have done is to insult their victims. What happened to those
       kids in cages, AOC? Many of them have died. They aren't able to
       come back to be loved by those who care about them. Yet you want
       me to believe it is fair to give give those who cheered them
       being put in cages a chance to come back and be loved?
       True Leftists have only one message to white supremacists: WE
       WILL REPLACE YOU.
       ---
       You cannot defeat racism merely by banning its social
       expression. I have said this from the beginning, and now the
       researchers confirm it:
       gwtoday.gwu.edu/novel-mapping-model-tracks-how-hate-spreads-and-
       adapts-online
       (ignore innacurate use of word "hate")
       [quote]The researchers saw clusters creating new adaptation
       strategies in order to regroup on other platforms or re-enter a
       platform after being banned. For example, clusters can migrate
       and reform on other platforms or use different languages to
       avoid detection. This allows the cluster to quickly bring back
       thousands of supporters to a platform where they have been
       banned and highlights the need for cross-platform cooperation to
       limit online hate groups.
       “The analogy is no matter how much weed killer you place in a
       yard, the problem will come back, potentially more aggressively.
       In the online world, all yards in the neighborhood are
       interconnected in a highly complex way—almost like wormholes.
       This is why individual social media platforms like Facebook need
       new analysis such as ours to figure out new approaches to push
       them ahead of the curve,” Dr. Johnson said.[/quote]
       And even in face of their own results, the False Left
       researchers still don't get it:
       [quote]The team, which included researchers at the University of
       Miami, used insights from its online hate mapping to develop
       four intervention strategies that social media platforms could
       immediately implement based on situational circumstances:
       Reduce the power and number of large clusters by banning the
       smaller clusters that feed into them.
       Attack the Achilles’ heel of online hate groups by randomly
       banning a small fraction of individual users in order to make
       the global cluster network fall apart.
       Pit large clusters against each other by helping anti-hate
       clusters find and engage directly with hate clusters.
       Set up intermediary clusters that engage hate groups to help
       bring out the differences in ideologies between them and make
       them begin to question their stance.[/quote]
       It should be obvious why all of the above methods will fail for
       exactly the same reason that they themselves already stated(!):
       clusters will regroup elsewhere as fast as they are banned
       anywhere. We can win debates against racists all day and they
       will just start repeating the same discredited arguments again
       the next day somewhere else.
       Racism exists in the blood of racists. The only serious way to
       defeat racism is to terminate every last racist bloodline in the
       world. Anything else is dangerous delusion precisely because it
       creates the illusion of activism that lulls anti-racists into a
       false sense of achievement.
       [quote]Dr. Johnson found that the varied ways individuals can
       interpret common information leads to polarization. People
       interpret news stories differently based on what is going on in
       their lives, he said, and these extremes are likely to be
       enhanced over time because of social media algorithms designed
       to reduce division. These findings contradict a common
       perception that polarized media consumption is what creates
       greater ideological divides and feeds online extremism.[/quote]
       No, people interpret news stories differently based on their
       genes. A poor racist who wins the lottery does not become less
       racist because of winning the lottery.
       ---
       I told you so:
       www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/deradicalize-hate-groups-experts
       -1.5255835
       [quote]While people might wish for a magic pill or program,
       there is no easy way to guide someone away from hateful, racist
       ideologies, deradicalization experts say.
       ...
       Deradicalization, the experts said, is most successful if
       mentors can reach people before their racist or discriminatory
       views become hardened
       ...
       "There has to be a will for them to want to leave that lifestyle
       behind," he said. "It's not approaching active members. That
       becomes a very hard and very unsafe and unethical process."
       Unethical, because it can put the volunteer or counsellor in
       jeopardy of retaliation, said Galloway. Even though there's a
       low chance of success and there could be risks to his safety, he
       said he still tries to reach them.
       "I've done some work speaking with active people online. Just
       saying to them, 'Hey, you know, if and when you feel like
       there's a change in your life that you want to make toward
       leaving those groups, you know we're here.'"[/quote]
       If they want to leave racism, they will do so without your help,
       and if they don't want to leave racism, you will not convince
       them to do so. So why do you even bother?
       There is a magic pill for ending racism, however. Whatever
       prevents racists from reproducing will suffice.
       ---
       More leftists getting it:
       www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/trumps-minneapolis-rally-demonstration-m
       oral-145900190.html
       [quote]It was surely a swift process for some people. Here's a
       talk-radio soundboard running for president, yelling about
       Mexicans and Muslims and how we need a Big, Beautiful Wall to
       keep Those People out. He knows whose country this is. He knows
       who should make the rules, and who ought to shut up and follow
       them. He knows who gets a seat at the table in America. They
       were in from the jump, from the moment they first stood at a
       rally and felt that twisted power coursing through their veins.
       But others, you have to think, were more gradual converts. Maybe
       they felt the world was passing them by. Maybe they didn't know
       until he came along how much they needed an outlet for their
       rage at a million quotidian cuts—the new boss who doesn't look
       like a boss should look, having to press "1" for English. They
       were primed for it, sure, but it took a while to fully commit.
       Day after day, as they continued to support him—through the
       racist tirades and the attacks on veterans and their families
       and the exploding allegations that he is a serial sexual
       predator—they were forced to give up more and more of themselves
       to stay on-board. And as they gave up more of themselves, they
       became more and more devout in their allegiance to The Movement.
       At some point, the sunk cost became insurmountable. There is no
       going back now. They have given all of themselves to him.
       ...
       This is how he thinks he can win reelection: by continuing to
       pull his base of support towards more vitriolic expressions of
       this vision of America as a country for and by white people; by
       scaring other constituencies away from speaking out; by using
       the Republican Party's machinations to stop inconvenient voters
       from voting; by smearing his opponents as Just As Bad As Him,
       They Just Pretend to Be Prim and Proper; by soliciting foreign
       meddling that will benefit him in exchange for favors when he is
       reelected.
       All the while, he will drag his supporters deeper and deeper
       into the abyss. They cannot be reached now, only
       stopped.[/quote]
       They are not going to change their viewpoint even if Trump loses
       in 2020. If anything, they will only move even further right. In
       fact many of them have been saying by mid 2017 that Trump
       himself is not rightist enough. The ideal candidate they would
       actually want would make Trump look moderate in comparison.
       #Post#: 296--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 13, 2020, 11:24 pm
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       OLD CONTENT contd.
       Someone begins to get it:
       www.thedailybeast.com/today-show-falls-into-classic-white-nation
       alist-trap-gives-platform-to-racist-leader
       [quote]Since the run-up to the 2016 election, news outlets have
       semi-regularly hosted white nationalists for sweeping interviews
       about their beliefs. If the racists reveal their racism, the
       logic goes, the American populace will be repulsed. In
       actuality, Americans are already pretty familiar with racism.
       Those who already oppose it will be repelled by the racists on
       their screens—but viewers who harbor their own racist
       resentments might see something else in these televised
       interviews: an ally.[/quote]
       ---
       They are getting it:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DugBWDOxjhI
       ---
       The False Left still doesn't get it:
       us.yahoo.com/news/americas-overdue-reckoning-white-supremacy-071
       510491.html
       [quote]America is amidst an overdue reckoning for the systemic
       racism that has been a fundamental feature of our culture for
       400 years. President Abraham Lincoln seemed to cast slavery as
       America's original sin, and in his second inaugural address
       acknowledged that if “all the wealth piled by the bond man's 250
       years of unrequited toil shall be sunk,” that would be a fair
       judgment on the United States.
       Yet here we are, a century-and-a-half later, and America has
       failed to atone for this original sin while committing myriad
       others against people of color.
       Now it feels like the world is spiraling out of control. We are
       experiencing the effects of ignoring, minimizing and
       rationalizing sin. If you are uncomfortable with the word sin,
       just use the word evil in its place. We have allowed evil to
       flourish.[/quote]
       Yes, and do you know why? Because you made the mistake of
       believing evil people can be taught not to be evil.
       [quote]Yes, it’s a scary and chaotic historical moment, but, in
       the end, this might be what it takes for white people to finally
       face up to our failure to eradicate the white supremacy that
       infects our society. As my friend and anti-racism educator Lisa
       Sharon Harper says, “The only course of action for white people
       now is repentance and repair.”
       I’ll start: I repent for my lack of action. I repent for my lack
       of urgency. I repent for not listening more. I repent for
       lacking humility. If the religious language of repentance
       alienates you, then just try saying, “I’m sorry.”[/quote]
       Words mean nothing. Either racists voluntarily refrain from
       reproducing or they cannot claim repentance.
       [quote]So what does repair look like?
       Lincoln made clear that it was not just the enslavement of black
       people, which was heinous enough, but also the wealth that was
       accumulated from their “unrequited toil” that was a stain on
       America. There can be no true repair without monetary
       reparations. This country would not exist in its current form
       without the free labor of black people. Even post-slavery, black
       people have never been paid fairly for their work, and they
       typically lack the generational wealth that benefits many white
       Americans.
       For those who say reparations are impossible, I say, “Do your
       homework.” Reparations have worked in various other contexts,
       and they can work here. Working toward official reparations will
       take time, but in the meantime use your money to support the
       BIPOC Project (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) that's
       doing the work of dismantling white supremacy.[/quote]
       No. As I have said before, monetary "reparations" amount to
       bribing the victim to drop the charges. A victim with dignity
       does not accept bribes. The only sincere reparation is to leave
       behind no biological descendants.
       [quote]Repair also looks like giving up the need to center your
       experience and your feelings. When you feel hurt by a criticism
       of white people, deal with that on your own. You do not ask
       BIPOC to help you feel better. Don’t go to them with your tears
       about how hard it is to face your own racism. (Believe it or
       not, this happens all the time.) You do not treat black and
       brown people as your unofficial pastor to confess your racist
       sins to. They’ve had enough trauma and don’t need you to unload
       yours on them.
       Repair looks like privileging the experiences and perspectives
       of BIPOC over the white narrative. They actually know more about
       what it’s like to live their lives than you do. Listen to them.
       Repair looks like you interrogating your own privileges and
       biases and unlearning your own toxic behavior.[/quote]
       But how can you guarantee that such behaviour, which is
       heritable (indeed which evolved because racism is an extremely
       efficient survival strategy):
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/ethnotribalism-the-computer-simulation/
       will not arise again in future generations of the same
       bloodlines? The only answer is to voluntarily refrain from
       reproducing. Anything else is insincere and deserves to be
       treated with contempt, especially by the sincere anti-racists
       who are voluntarily refraining from reproducing.
       ---
       [quote]Biden, in Town Hall (Censored by YouTube) Estimates up to
       15% of Americans Bad (VT goes higher, says ‘psychopaths)
       Daily Beast: Joe Biden thinks that around 10 to 15 percent of
       Americans are “not very good people,” but that the “vast
       majority of the people are decent” and want to get along with
       each other.
       The former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee
       appeared to get his figure out of thin air during an online town
       hall event with some of his black supporters on Thursday night.
       From 2017, not censored by YouTube.[/quote]
       Probably closer to 90% I'd say. It all depends on what criteria
       you are using to judge whether a person is "good" or not, right?
       I mean, if we judge a person as being good only if they have
       never initiated violence against another, then maybe only 5% or
       less of people are actually good, no? Whose eating all those
       billions of animals (people according to Mohammed and Jesus)
       that get tortured to death in U.S. flesh factories every year?
       Better hope there is not a true and living God who so judges....
       [quote]Biden was discussing the importance of a president
       setting a good example for the nation on race issues, and
       accused President Trump of actively working to divide the
       country and making “the worst of us to come out.”[/quote]
       www.thedailybeast.com/biden-estimates-that-as-many-as-50-million
       -americans-are-not-very-good-people?ref=home
       ---
       www.huffpost.com/entry/implicit-bias-training-doesnt-actually-ch
       ange-police-behavior_n_5ee28fc3c5b60b32f010ed48
       [quote]If a police department can spend three years undergoing
       bias training and still shoot a peaceful, unarmed Black
       protester, what has the training really achieved?[/quote]
       It has achieved procrastination from using state control over
       reproduction to solve the problem.
       [quote]Over the last decade, implicit bias training has become
       one of the primary methods for law enforcement agencies and
       policymakers to demonstrate that they take concerns over racist
       policing seriously. According to a CBS survey of 155 police
       departments last year, 69% said they were using implicit bias
       training. Half said they had initiated the programs after the
       controversial 2014 killing of Michael Brown, a Black teenager,
       by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
       In the wake of the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in
       Minneapolis, calls have intensified to expand these programs.
       The mayors of Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Tampa, Florida, have
       signaled their intention to install or expand them. Texas and
       Michigan have passed bills requiring police officers to receive
       such training. In a Medium post, former President Barack Obama
       pointed readers to a toolkit urging “ongoing and scenario-based”
       anti-bias training for all police officers.
       Despite its near-universal support among policymakers, however,
       research has failed to show that implicit bias training has any
       lasting effect on racial discrimination or the behavior of
       police officers.
       “We don’t have any evidence that anti-bias trainings work (in
       general,) and we know even less about whether they work for
       police officers,” said Joshua Correll, a University of Colorado
       professor who has been studying implicit bias for more than 20
       years.
       A 2016 study of nine different methods for reducing bias found
       that none had any lasting effect after a few days. Few
       researchers have followed up specifically with law enforcement
       agencies to see if the training had any effect on the practices
       of officers.
       “People have jumped on the idea that we should be providing this
       training without clear documentation that it makes any
       difference whatsoever,” Correll said.
       ...
       Over time, implicit bias tests have revealed that much of the
       population associates Black faces with criminality, violence and
       aggression. Test subjects are more likely to interpret an
       ambiguous shove as hostile when a Black person does it, for
       example.[/quote]
       Much of the population should be prohibited from reproducing.
       [quote]Researchers have also documented implicit bias in police
       officers. In a 2016 study, 96% of police officers associated
       Black Americans with weapons. Other research has found that law
       enforcement officers classify Black faces as more threatening
       and perceive ordinary objects as dangerous after viewing photos
       of Black people. In a laboratory experiment, researchers found
       that police officers were more quick to press a button labeled
       “shoot” when presented with a Black suspect.
       This form of bias has profound implications for every aspect of
       police work, from deciding whether to pull over an errant driver
       to shooting a suspect who reaches into his pocket. These
       split-second decisions or subconscious choices add up to the
       racial disparities seen in policing. Black drivers are more
       likely to be stopped, searched and arrested — despite being less
       likely than whites to be carrying contraband. Black victims of
       fatal police shootings are more likely to be unarmed. The arrest
       rates for all kinds of misdemeanors are twice as high for Black
       Americans than they are for whites.[/quote]
       [quote]There’s even some evidence that implicit bias training
       makes racist attitudes worse. Highlighting bias among police
       officers could reinforce the message that racism is widespread.
       In response, participants may resent feeling they’re being
       lectured about their racist views and entrench them more
       deeply.[/quote]
       Duh! The people who need the training in the first place are
       racists, so how else do you expect them to react?
       And the people who would not react like that are those who would
       not need the training to begin with.
       [quote]“As individuals, we’re a conduit for the cultures in
       which we live,” Correll said. “So if you’re embedded in a
       culture that associates Black men with violence and danger, that
       may well swamp anything you learn in an hours-long, or even
       weeks-long, training.”[/quote]
       If education has any role to play, it should be in educating
       people about how absurd this stereotype is. None of the colonial
       powers were "black"! If anyone should be associated with
       "violence and danger", it should be those associated with
       colonialism! Even if we're talking about the US only, it sure
       wasn't "blacks" who came up with Manifest Destiny FFS!
       Plus, how much of the following undescribably violent and
       dangerous stuff are "blacks" responsible for? (Answer: almost
       none.)
       #Post#: 297--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 13, 2020, 11:29 pm
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       Latest epiphany:
  HTML https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/12/enough-of-the-psychobabble-racism-is-not-something-to-fix-with-therapy
       [quote]Unconscious bias training is a lucrative industry, but it
       won’t change consciously hostile policies
       ...
       More than 30 years ago, Ambalavaner Sivanandan warned against
       “the sort of psychospiritual mumbo-jumbo which… by reducing
       social problems to individual solutions, passes off personal
       satisfaction for political liberation”. A radical whose writings
       influenced a generation of activists in the 1970s and 80s,
       Sivanandan was an early critic of what was then called “racial
       awareness training”.
       ...
       A meta-analysis of almost 500 studies found that training has
       only a “weak” effect on an individual’s implicit-bias score, and
       none on their behaviour.
       ...
       We all possess implicit frameworks through which we make sense
       of the world. It’s always useful to question those frameworks
       and interrogate our prejudices.
       It was not, however, unconscious bias that made a police officer
       place his knee on George Floyd’s neck. Or that led to the police
       stopping and handcuffing Bianca Williams and Ricardo dos Santos,
       or to the equivalent of almost a third of young black males in
       London being stopped and searched during lockdown. Or that
       created the hostile environment policy and led to the Windrush
       scandal. These are all the products of very conscious
       policies.[/quote]
       It sounds so obvious when someone is willing to just state it.
       So, when is society going to start using our proposed solution
       of terminating racist bloodlines?
       Still unconvinced?
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coqc94RTK-s
       You seriously think someone like Neff can be taught to not be
       racist?
       #Post#: 351--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 16, 2020, 11:53 pm
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  HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html
       [quote]One critique leveled at antiracism training is that it
       just may not work. Frank Dobbin, a Harvard sociology professor,
       has published research on attempts, over three decades, to
       combat bias in over 800 U.S. companies, including a 2016 study
       with Alexandra Kalev in The Harvard Business Review. (As far
       back as the early ’60s, he recounts in his book “Inventing Equal
       Opportunity,” Western Electric, responding to a
       Kennedy-administration initiative to enhance equity, presented
       lectures by Kenneth Clark and James Baldwin to company
       managers.) Dobbin’s research shows that the numbers of women or
       people of color in management do not increase with most
       anti-bias education. “There just isn’t much evidence that you
       can do anything to change either explicit or implicit bias in a
       half-day session,” Dobbin warns. “Stereotypes are too
       ingrained.”
       When we first talked, and I described DiAngelo’s approach, he
       said, “I certainly agree with what she’s saying” about our
       white-supremacist society. But he noted that new research that
       he’s revising for publication suggests that anti-bias training
       can backfire, with adverse effects especially on Black people,
       perhaps, he speculated, because training, whether consciously or
       subconsciously, “activates stereotypes.” When we spoke again in
       June, he emphasized an additional finding from his data: the
       likelihood of backlash “if people feel that they’re being forced
       to go to diversity training to conform with social norms or
       laws.”[/quote]
       Just prohibit racists from reproducing FFS!
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       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 6, 2020, 11:42 pm
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       I told you so:
  HTML https://phys.org/news/2020-08-racism-genetic-trait.html
       [quote]New research suggests racism could be a genetic trait
       ...
       Could it be that we are born with predispositions to certain
       political opinions? According to the findings, the answer is
       yes.
       "People who share the same sets of attitudes also appear to
       share the same genes," said Thomas Haarklau Kleppestø, Ph.D.
       fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo.
       ...
       As expected, the researchers found a link between SDO and
       political attitudes. E.g., those who favored a hierarchical
       structure in society often wished for stricter immigration
       control and reduced foreign aid.
       However, the findings also revealed that peoples' SDO had a
       genetic connection to all the eight measured political
       attitudes. According to Kleppestø, this could partly explain the
       link between the political attitudes.
       "We do not believe that our genome directly controls our
       political attitudes. However, we speculate that we are born with
       a predisposition that is strengthened over time, for example
       when we find friends with similar preferences," Kleppestø said.
       The researchers believe that you may be born with a personality
       trait that could lead you into environments where it is
       enforced. So-called active gene-environment-correlation is
       well-known phenomenon in behavioral genetics.[/quote]
       So when do we stop the nonsense of "diversity seminars" and
       start just prohibiting the genetic racists from reproducing?
       #Post#: 913--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 27, 2020, 11:44 pm
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       More leftists understand it now:
       [img]
  HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgR_oNlUYAAqmXy?format=png&name=small[/img]
       What Coleman was in middle school (a bully) is what he will
       always be. It is in his blood.
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       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: Soleil Date: September 3, 2020, 5:51 am
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       Any debate aimed at convincing is a waste of time, provoking
       only a conflict between the conscious and the subconscious.  All
       real emotions are by default instinctive so the slightest virtue
       signalling is to be avoided. Our only duty is to spread the
       facts and observe unconscious tribalist behaviors in order to
       determine which ones should disappear. In this way we will
       immediately spot the honest tribalists and especially the
       hypocrites of the left serving only their own interests.
       #Post#: 1391--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 5, 2020, 12:47 am
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       Remember there are estimated to be 60 million of these in the
       US:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWOMU2h9L4c
       Only state control over reproduction can solve the problem.
       #Post#: 1735--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 24, 2020, 12:15 am
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       And again we are vindicated:
  HTML https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/19/research-shows-critical-race-theory-is-actually-making-people-more-racist/
       [quote]To subject the whitelash hypothesis to a more rigorous
       test, I conducted a survey experiment from Aug. 1-29, 2019. In
       total, 1,527 white respondents were treated with “primes”
       representative of contemporary discussions of race and then
       questioned on topics of identity and group attitudes. I focused
       specifically on self-identified conservative and high
       white-identifying respondents.
       To capture the effects of critical rhetoric, I used an excerpt
       from Macy Sto. Domingo’s “18 Things White People Seem To Not
       Understand (Because, White Privilege).” Among white
       conservatives, this “critical prime” predicted 8 percent
       increased support (weighted mean) for whites “work[ing] together
       to improve the position of their group,” in comparison to the
       “control group.”
       To further probe the effects of critical themes on identity, I
       asked respondents to rate the importance of certain factors to
       being “truly American.” Here, critical prime exposure appears to
       have narrowed the boundaries of the “in-group.”
       For example, conservative whites expressed 12 percent greater
       agreement that only those with “American ancestry” are truly
       American. High white-identifiers expressed 20 percent greater
       agreement with this same claim and 8 percent greater support for
       restricting American identity to those “born in the U.S.”
       Critical prime exposure also increased conservative
       “ethnocentrism,” or net “feeling thermometer” preference for
       whites over minorities by 5 percent.[/quote]
       More importantly:
       [quote]In most cases, findings were the opposite for white
       leftists. Exposure to the critical prime thus created a wider
       gap between the racial attitudes reported by left-leaning and
       conservative (also low/high white-identifying) whites.[/quote]
       #Post#: 2100--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Superiority cannot be taught
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 10, 2020, 3:06 am
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       Do not ever try to educate Trumpists, because you will fail:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsgDq4o500
       Just take down their names and buy ammo.
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