Sun Devil
Death and Taxes
As projected here on these forums and the repetitive "liberals are this and that" and the continuous blaming of people who hold a particular political philosophy definitely displays a type of profound stupidity. I assume the likes of Big Money, Truth detector, and StormX aren't probably college educated, and if they are, I definitely want my money back from both of the Universities I've attended. But this thread isn't really about them, its mostly prompted by a co-worker of mine who like the above three in bold (and banned), have this stereotypical idea of various ethnic cultures and how they speak. For example, I notice this particular co-worker likes to make fun of Hispanic visitors, and although he himself is half-Latino himself, he tends to identify with "white culture." I noticed him making references and comments about African-American visitors and patients by referring to them as "ghetto blacks" and although I sweep those comments under the rug, it definitely bothers me that someone like him knowing the demographic population we encounter is continued to be bothered by something he himself chose to work in.
I mean, for fucks sake we work in Los Angeles County, we are a private hospital that serves a large Hispanic population that are mostly an illegal immigrant population, poor, no insurance, and monolingual (Spanish speaking only) yet he complains about the population and the type of people that come in and the attitudes they bring. Then it dawns on me, in that in every single racist person or those with prejudicial feelings, most are really uneducated. I recalled asking a fellow associate of mine long ago his educational background and apparently he is a junior college graduate BUT he was on academic probation twice because of his grades. He eventually passed with a 2.3 GPA with his associates degree. So I had an epiphany and lo' and behold! I remember an article my professor had sent me long ago concerning racism and education:
"Smart enough to know better: Intelligence is not a remedy for racism"
I remembered getting into a debate with another racist long ago who love to try to argue about so-called "black inferiority" using scientists and I remembered the article addressed that issue in the following:
"Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers -- they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study."
Now, I'm sure you guys are like me, pretty much tired of discussing this but I guess you can say it's only right to actually discuss this because as you can see we still have members on these forums that exhibit these behaviors and there are very few people (myself among them) that confront these individuals while others remain quiet. But no worries because the obvious idiots on these forums are very much present through their own ignorance and actually according to Psychological Science there appears to be a relationship between cognitive ability and prejudice:
"Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups. In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology. A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact. All analyses controlled for education and socioeconomic status. Our results suggest that cognitive abilities play a critical, albeit underappreciated, role in prejudice. Consequently, we recommend a heightened focus on cognitive ability in research on prejudice and a better integration of cognitive ability into prejudice models."
See Reference: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract
See Reference:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130811005342.htm
I mean, for fucks sake we work in Los Angeles County, we are a private hospital that serves a large Hispanic population that are mostly an illegal immigrant population, poor, no insurance, and monolingual (Spanish speaking only) yet he complains about the population and the type of people that come in and the attitudes they bring. Then it dawns on me, in that in every single racist person or those with prejudicial feelings, most are really uneducated. I recalled asking a fellow associate of mine long ago his educational background and apparently he is a junior college graduate BUT he was on academic probation twice because of his grades. He eventually passed with a 2.3 GPA with his associates degree. So I had an epiphany and lo' and behold! I remember an article my professor had sent me long ago concerning racism and education:
"Smart enough to know better: Intelligence is not a remedy for racism"
I remembered getting into a debate with another racist long ago who love to try to argue about so-called "black inferiority" using scientists and I remembered the article addressed that issue in the following:
"Smart people are just as racist as their less intelligent peers -- they're just better at concealing their prejudice, according to a University of Michigan study."
Now, I'm sure you guys are like me, pretty much tired of discussing this but I guess you can say it's only right to actually discuss this because as you can see we still have members on these forums that exhibit these behaviors and there are very few people (myself among them) that confront these individuals while others remain quiet. But no worries because the obvious idiots on these forums are very much present through their own ignorance and actually according to Psychological Science there appears to be a relationship between cognitive ability and prejudice:
"Despite their important implications for interpersonal behaviors and relations, cognitive abilities have been largely ignored as explanations of prejudice. We proposed and tested mediation models in which lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups. In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology. A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on antihomosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact. All analyses controlled for education and socioeconomic status. Our results suggest that cognitive abilities play a critical, albeit underappreciated, role in prejudice. Consequently, we recommend a heightened focus on cognitive ability in research on prejudice and a better integration of cognitive ability into prejudice models."
See Reference: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/04/0956797611421206.abstract
See Reference:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130811005342.htm
