An Empirical Experiment
By Mitch Berg
Run a conservative African-American – Alan West or Condi Rice or Thomas Sowell, for all I care – against a white, nay Scandanavian, liberal.
Who do you think I’ll vote for?
Does it make me an anti-white “racist?”
September 16th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Stupid Wingnut. You are a Conservative. Everything you do, think and are is racist. Geesh, your teh stoopid.
September 16th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Of course it makes you a racist. Any black conservative is, by definition, not “authentically” black. While any liberal white is an honorary black (see Bill Clinton).
September 16th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Implicit bias [favoring white over black people] is prevalent. To measure one’s own racial bias, we need a richer tool than the one-question test you’ve put forward above. Something like this: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
September 16th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Gavin,
True on all counts but the one that matters – the premise that the only reason not to vote for Obama (or Keith Ellison) is racism.
I personally do not know a single conservative who would vote for Algore or John Kerry or Mark Dayton over, say, Alan West or another black conservative.
September 16th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
What about the implicit bias in creating such a test and giving credence to its results, Gavin?
September 16th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
The type of test Gavin links to remind me of the tests they used to perform on people suspected of being witches.
I doubt if any one who designed the test, or any one who makes use of its findings, has ever noticed that it allows them to make virtually anyone in a suspect population guilty of “implicit racist thought patterns” w/o ever demonstrating that any one in that population has ever had a single racist thought.
September 16th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
I hate white people. I’ve been around white people all my life. They should all be rounded up and forced to live in the suburbs. With good parks, shopping malls and plenty of grocery stores and restaurants.
September 16th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Then, too, there is the matter of Gavin’s misrepresentation of the test itself.
It does not say that it measures “racial bias” (Gavin’s words). It says that it measures “implicit associations”.
More than a Witchcraft test, it reminds of that god-awful study done by the HHH institute whose authors said that it showed racial discrimination in mortgage lending, but, in fact, never identified a single person who had been discriminated against when they applied for a mortgage or a single mortgage lender who had used race to discriminate against a loan applicant. It was designed to show “group guilt”.
The marvelous thing about a study like the HHH institute study is that, if you are, say a banking group or a loan originator, there is no way you can defend yourself against such a nebulous charge as “statistically significant variance in the terms of the loans sold to group A and to group B”, when the evidence presented is a meta study that mixes zip code data, census data, and incomplete, self-reported data from mortgage lenders.
September 16th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Let’s see, Alan West vs John “ELCA” Marty. Call me a racist, but I’ll go with West.
September 18th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Anyone click on Gavin’s link? He seems to have a keen masturbation fascination. Can’t say that I’m surprised.
September 18th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
I looked at Gavin’s link, Kermit.
It takes you to an “association test”. It shows you pictures of people of different races and it tests whether you associate the pictures with good or bad things.
It amounts to group guilt. You can never have done a racist thing in your life or had so much as a racist thought, but you could find yourself guilty of subconscious racism that only the
social scientistswitch doctors at Harvard can detect. Even if you have never taken the test, you can still be guilty of belonging to a group that the test shows have committed thought crimes.