Racism is dumb

[boofy]

Why am I not surprised?

RACIAL PREJUDICE MAKES YOU STUPIDER, NEW RESEARCH FINDS
from The Boston Globe

To the litany of arguments against prejudice, scientists are now adding a
new one: Racism can make you stupid.

That is the message of an unusual and striking new series of experiments
conducted at Dartmouth College, with the help of brain-imaging equipment
and a crew of undergraduate volunteers.

According to the findings, the more biased people are, the more their brain
power is taxed by contact with someone of another race, as they struggle
not to say or do anything offensive. The effect is so strong, the team
found, that even a five-minute conversation with a black person left some
of the white subjects unable to perform well on a test of cognitive ability.

Researchers cannot yet predict how racial bias as measured in the lab will
translate into overt racist attitudes or actions. But the new brain-
imaging work, reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience, represents the
most detailed look yet at the way racial biases function in the brain.
http://snurl.com/310f

[monkey neck]

Case and point:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103430,00.html

Obviously done by racist morons.

[Manticore]

Originally posted by boofy
According to the findings, the more biased people are, the more their brain
power is taxed by contact with someone of another race, as they struggle
not to say or do anything offensive. The effect is so strong, the team
found, that even a five-minute conversation with a black person left some
of the white subjects unable to perform well on a test of cognitive ability.


Hmm, I wonder how the impolite racists did in this study.

[Duemellon]

ah... the next question is what consitutes racism? They talked about someone trying not to "offend" someone else. Is this people walking on eggshells to be PC? or is it a byproduct of a society that has polarized langauge and gestures to express some underlying bit of racism?

Yah, telling racist jokes is bad. Does it cause you distress to avoid saying them around certain people? Perhaps so. But if you never had a racist joke to tell, you wouldn't have the distress of keeping it to yourself.

Racism creates it's own problems.

[monkey neck]

Originally posted by Manticore


Hmm, I wonder how the impolite racists did in this study.

Dude, that's freakin hilarious!

And Due, right as you are, take a time out, would ya?:D

[Duemellon]

NEVER!

I eat Racist Flakes in the morning with my suspiciously white milk. I drive on the backs of blacktop roads, and stop when I see a red light. Yellow means caution, but green? yeah, you damned right, green means "go" it means "proceed" it means you have the RIGHT to continue the way you want to be goin, but it's the color of money baby.. oh yeah...

don't u see it? it's everywhere.

green, color of money, green the color of shamrocks, shamrocks? yep, u damned right, the Irish. and the Irish are what? White people. Only the white people can give the right to "go", only they can authorize you. See an Indian? well damn, u'd better stop. See an Asian? uh oh... proceed with caution.

See, you dont see it, everywhere in everything. You dont hear it in your electric razor as the hum makes a sound much like the word "niiiiiiiiiii" and when u turn it off, it winds down going "grrrrr" but you dont catch it. Ya see? I have the spy googles on, I've touched the Matrix. I've decoded the Mastermind board game, and won the free replay on pinball. You? Well, you're stuck watching "What's Happening Now" trying to figure out why Rerun is still wearing the same damned hat that wasn't in style when the show first came around.

but i know.

I see the sounds, i hear the color, I can taste the thought, and I can sense the oat bran.

but u a sucka. Fight the Question, be the answer, look into your own eyes and see the evil in you, by the power of Grayskull you have the power. My buddy, my buddy, wherever I go he goes.

Yoda was a black man and Chewie was Scottish, but which one appeared in more movies? Which one lived? Darth Vader, well he was black, black suit, black voice, black eyes, and when they realized that Luke was his son they came up with some excuse to "white-ify" him.

Purple people eater ain't protected by the constitution, but he damn near wrote it.

yeah baby.

oh yeah.

fight racism.

[monkey neck]

Due, you need to cut back on the crack a little. Very funny though. Only drugs could induce that rant, methinks.