Study Links Racism to Low IQ and Poor Education

[Viktor]

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The UK study also found a strong link between prejudice and poor education.

 

[Huey]

All white people are dumb as hell like matt,ss,and quite a few others on this board and in the congress.

 

[jwoodie]

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The UK study also found a strong link between prejudice and poor education.

"Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as "Family life suffers if mum is working full-time," and "Schools should teach children to obey authority." Attitudes toward other races were captured by measuring agreement with statements such as "I wouldn't mind working with people from other races." (These questions measured overt prejudiced attitudes, but most people, no matter how egalitarian, do hold unconscious racial biases; Hodson's work can't speak to this "underground" racism.)"

Only a person of low intelligence would swallow this crap. Applying these "findings" to U.S. population groups would result in Asians and Whites being the least prejudiced (due to their higher IQ's), followed by Hispanics and Blacks as the most prejudiced. Is that your point?

 

[Esmeralda]

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The UK study also found a strong link between prejudice and poor education.

This is not in the least surprising. Most people who are racists are unable to intelligently articulate any viable rationale for their racism, and it is usually based in misinformation or lack of information about those to whom their racism is directed, as well as belief in stereotypes and making sweeping generalizations about a whole race based on the behavior of some. That applies to all kinds of prejudice.

 

[IanC]

stupid people tend to see issues as (ahem) black or white because they cannot see future ramifications. this would tend to get them classified as conservative, but for the wrong reasons.

 

[blastoff]

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The UK study also found a strong link between prejudice and poor education.

Sounds like we know what's causing all those black on black murders taking place in the hood every single day. Good study.

 

[katsteve2012]

All white people are dumb as hell like matt,ss,and quite a few others on this board and in the congress.

There are people in every race who lack intelligence and the also lack the ability to acquire it.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

stupid people tend to see issues as (ahem) black or white because they cannot see future ramifications. this would tend to get them classified as conservative, but for the wrong reasons.

Really?

You don't think leftists are blind to potential future ramifications?

Though I could come up with a big list of all the negative ramifications that their foolish policies have wrought, the current O-care debacle more than sufficiently brings that point home.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Well, this explains black on white crime perfectly then.

 

[Godboy]

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The UK study also found a strong link between prejudice and poor education.

This is not in the least surprising. Most people who are racists are unable to intelligently articulate any viable rationale for their racism, and it is usually based in misinformation or lack of information about those to whom their racism is directed, as well as belief in stereotypes and making sweeping generalizations about a whole race based on the behavior of some. That applies to all kinds of prejudice.

EXACTLY! You hear loony stuff like "the white man keeping me down", or "white people invented AIDS to kill black people". Instead of looking at their own culture as the root of ALL their problems, they blame people who have white skin. Its moronic.

 

[PredFan]

People who are truly racist are certainly of lower IQ than normal.

However not as low as the IQs of those who use the label "racist" rather than engage in intelligent discourse.

 

[Esmeralda]

It's just too funny. All of you, and you know who you are, are just making the point of the OP, with bells on. Too, too funny.

Nothing in the OP says anything about whites being racist against blacks, or vice versa, but it is the only thing you lock onto. Hilarious. Tripping over yourselves trying to make it look like you aren't the ones who are the racists, and yet painting it in neon colors that you are.

 

[daveman]

"Schools should teach children to obey authority."

That's a progressive view.

 

[daveman]

It's just too funny. All of you, and you know who you are, are just making the point of the OP, with bells on. Too, too funny.

Nothing in the OP says anything about whites being racist against blacks, or vice versa, but it is the only thing you lock onto. Hilarious. Tripping over yourselves trying to make it look like you aren't the ones who are the racists, and yet painting it in neon colors that you are.

Sure, if you want to bitterly cling to this bad science.

 

[Stephanie]

Well if that's the case, what is Obama's excuse? The most brilliant educated man in the world

 

[HelenaHandbag]

It's just too funny. All of you, and you know who you are, are just making the point of the OP, with bells on. Too, too funny.

Nothing in the OP says anything about whites being racist against blacks, or vice versa, but it is the only thing you lock onto. Hilarious. Tripping over yourselves trying to make it look like you aren't the ones who are the racists, and yet painting it in neon colors that you are.

It's implied, as "conservatives" is often used synonymously with "whites".

Or are we just supposed to ignore that liberals very often point to the dearth of black conservatives, as some sort of left-handed proof that they're racist?

 

[Esmeralda]

It's just too funny. All of you, and you know who you are, are just making the point of the OP, with bells on. Too, too funny.

Nothing in the OP says anything about whites being racist against blacks, or vice versa, but it is the only thing you lock onto. Hilarious. Tripping over yourselves trying to make it look like you aren't the ones who are the racists, and yet painting it in neon colors that you are.

It's implied, as "conservatives" is often used synonymously with "whites".

Or are we just supposed to ignore that liberals very often point to the dearth of black conservatives, as some sort of left-handed proof that they're racist?

Did any of you not low IQ 'conservatives' on this thread notice the study was done in the UK where issues of racism are not focused on black/white but on people of varying races from around the former British Empire? You latched onto it as focusing on yourselves, which is very, very telling.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

It's just too funny. All of you, and you know who you are, are just making the point of the OP, with bells on. Too, too funny.

Nothing in the OP says anything about whites being racist against blacks, or vice versa, but it is the only thing you lock onto. Hilarious. Tripping over yourselves trying to make it look like you aren't the ones who are the racists, and yet painting it in neon colors that you are.

It's implied, as "conservatives" is often used synonymously with "whites".

Or are we just supposed to ignore that liberals very often point to the dearth of black conservatives, as some sort of left-handed proof that they're racist?

Did any of you not low IQ 'conservatives' on this thread notice the study was done in the UK where issues of racism are not focused on black/white but on people of varying races from around the former British Empire? You latched onto it as focusing on yourselves, which is very, very telling.

I also notice that most people quoting this stale old junk sociology study are most often American liberals, using it to try and paint anyone who isn't one of them as a racist.

Even more telling is how you would point to the origin of the piece to distract from this obvious fact.

 

[Esmeralda]

I don't need to distract anyone from anything. The conservatives on this thread think the study points directly to them: it's pretty obvious it is a case of the shoe fitting. They did not notice it is a study of much broader breadth and depth than American culture. They immediately became defensive and went on the attack against American blacks, making their own racism crystal clear. No one is trying to use the study to reflect directly on American whites. That's the way you see it because you live in your own little American vacuum. There is a whole, wide world out there, with plenty of racism in it as well as that in the US. And it isn't junk sociology. If you liked the results of the study, you'd be heralding it as current, not stale, and truth personified, not junk. Just like you call anyone on here nasty names when they don't agree with you, you call any study names when it doesn't say what you want it to say. Being dismissive about it again points out the results.

 

[Asclepias]

I don't need to distract anyone from anything. The conservatives on this thread think the study points directly to them: it's pretty obvious it is a case of the shoe fitting. They did not notice it is a study of much broader breadth and depth than American culture. They immediately became defensive and went on the attack against American blacks, making their own racism crystal clear. No one is trying to use the study to reflect directly on American whites. That's the way you see it because you live in your own little American vacuum. There is a whole, wide world out there, with plenty of racism in it as well as that in the US. And it isn't junk sociology. If you liked the results of the study, you'd be heralding it as current, not stale, and truth personified, not junk. Just like you call anyone on here nasty names when they don't agree with you, you call any study names when it doesn't say what you want it to say. Being dismissive about it again points out the results.

I wonder why they even needed a study to prove this. All you have to do is question a racist and ultimately you will find they are willfully stupid and ignorant. They are easily led by the medias commercial of the week on who the boogey man is. They constantly demonstrate the inability to see beyond the spoonfed surface reasons or causes for societal issues.