Racism/Sexism

[emilyg]

Racism Easier To Overcome Than Sexism
by linfar, Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 12:13:00 PM EST

Nicholas Kristof in todays' NYT writes in study after study, and from expert after expert:


We can make categorization by race go away, but we could never make gender categorization go away.

He goes on to explain that John Tooby, a scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara ran an experiment in which researchers put blacks and whites in sports jerseys as if they belonged to two basketball teams. People looking at the photos logged the players in their memories more by team than by race, recalling a player's jersey color but not necessarily his or her race.


But only very rarely did people forget

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/6/12130/02685

[stellanoir]

1. Ageism will prevail and override these trivial factors.

[ProSense]

2. I'm sure Rev. Wright would agree with you as he has been made

into an anti-American racist, and Ferraro and McCain are simply misunderstood.

The History Channel has a special on MLK. It ends a 10 p.m. Go see how easy blacks had it in this country then, and tell me how much it has changed. How many women are clogging the prison system?


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[Captain Hilts]

6. What percentage of women murdered women are murdered by men? nt

[ProSense]

8. Murderers are psychos. How many were the result of sexism?

Then I see Katrina and Jenna.

The problem is the constant BS attempts to make the race between Hillary and Obama one of race vs. sexism. Usually, these are attempts to portray Hillary as being at a greater disadvantage than Obama.

I could swear I just saw a thread blaming makeup for her miserable campaign.



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[izzybeans]

3. Intersectionality.

[nsd]

4. This column references some interesting research on the psychology of race and sex, but ...

I'm doubtful that this kind of work tells us that much about the Clinton-Obama contest. So many other factors -- having to do with economics, culture and society, national security, age, old political loyalties -- are also at work that I don't think it's possible to pinpoint a role for what's happening in the deepest recesses of the human psyche.

It may well be that feelings about sex are more intractable than those about race -- indeed, that would be my guess -- but there's really no need to appeal to evolutionary psychology to explain Clinton versus Obama. Even if Clinton does suffer from sexual stereotypes, I think those stereotypes are more rooted in culture than in evolution.

[Captain Hilts]

5. We always elect the taller candidate - except for 2004. nt

[nsd]

7. That's not quite true.

wikipedia

There have been a few other cases: Gore is taller than Bush, Ford was taller than Carter, McGovern was taller than Nixon ...

[Captain Hilts]

9. There wasn't a significant difference. Bush seemed to wear lifts for debates with Gore...nt