By Ed Driscoll
Obviously. They
think of minorities as PeTA thinks of animals, or pro-lifers think of babies:
incompetents incapable of standing on their own.
At least PETA and pro-lifers have a strong case to made
there.
What will White Liberals say about this? What will their
explanation be?
Oh, there won't be one: the media won't bother to explore
this very interesting finding.
This article on Yale's website was published almost two
weeks ago.
Ah, there you go. Media liberals who #LoveDaScience just
happened to completely miss this article for two weeks until John Sexton found
it.
The author of the article, Cydney Dupree, is one of two
researchers who started out looking at how white presidential candidates talk
when they are addressing a mostly black audience compared to when they are
speaking to a mostly white audience.
Dupree, who is black, and co-researcher Susan Fiske of
Princeton found the candidates were less likely to use words that expressed
competence and more likely to use words that expressed warmth when talking to a
minority audience.
The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer
competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences
than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences.
The difference wasn’' statistically significant in
speeches by Republican candidates, though "it was harder to find speeches
from Republicans delivered to minority audiences," Dupree notes.
There was no difference in Democrats' or Republicans'
usage of words related to warmth.
"It was really surprising to see that for nearly three decades,
Democratic presidential candidates have been engaging in this predicted
behavior."
But that was just the beginning.
Next, the researchers started designing a new experiment
which would attempt to discover if the same pattern held true for ordinary
people, i.e. non-politicians who were simply talking to another individual.
...
And what they found is that white liberals were less
likely to stress competence when talking with someone they believed was black.
Conservative white participants did not show this same
"competence downshift" when talking to someone they believed was
black.
The researchers found that liberal individuals were less
likely to use words that would make them appear highly competent when the
person they were addressing was presumed to be black rather than white.
No significant differences were seen in the word selection of conservatives
based on the presumed race of their partner.
"It was kind of an unpleasant surprise to see this
subtle but persistent effect"” Dupree says. "Even if it's ultimately
well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing."
Could be.
Could be.
Well, like I said, don't expect the media to dive into
this topic. It's uncomfortable for white liberals, and their black liberal
colleagues as well, and the media is made up of nothing but white liberals with
a smattering of Don't Call Us Racist hires, so this will make them very
uncomfortable indeed.
And the media is all about pleasing itself and its fellow
liberals these days, never challenging themselves or their audience.
They ignored this study for two weeks and they'll keep on
doing so.
