tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6323363352221151753..comments2024-03-28T15:16:24.659-04:00Comments on the daily howler: WEAKER APART: We pause our previously planned report!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-16628408098753402852017-08-17T14:56:36.963-04:002017-08-17T14:56:36.963-04:00It's the same thing, more or less. Negative st...It's the same thing, more or less. Negative stereotyping is the basis for animus. You notice that 'black' neighborhoods are more dangerous, you attribute it to 'racial'/ethnic culture (by mistaking correlation for causation - a very common, very natural mistake), you feel animosity towards this presumably more violent culture. In the end, I believe it really is steretyping, as opposed to 'scientific' racism, which is what the word 'racism' should mean, imo.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79344058858455362662017-08-17T12:53:30.598-04:002017-08-17T12:53:30.598-04:00racism is defind as racial animus not simply stere...racism is defind as racial animus not simply stereotyping.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81130130149305222192017-08-17T11:48:27.301-04:002017-08-17T11:48:27.301-04:00Since we are generalizing about large groups of pe...Since we are generalizing about large groups of people here (rarely a good idea), I'd say it's not 'academics' but 'intellectuals'. <br /><br />See Taleb's IYI: 'intellectuals-yet-idiots'. <br /><br />'Academic' is often someone analyzing some chemical or something, without ever opining on political or social phenomena. 'Intellectual', on the other hand, does it for a living. These fellas are most likely to be real morons, or tools of the powerful elites. <br /><br /><br />Also, what they call 'racial prejudice' most often (almost always, imo) amounts to ethnic/racial stereotyping. Which is so common (and not particularly troubling, imo) that denying it (as those 70% did, apparently), often amounts to self-censorship, to lying, trying to please the pollster. To doublethink.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54592399950218860322017-08-17T10:57:07.574-04:002017-08-17T10:57:07.574-04:00Can Somerby really think that if we stop labeling ...Can Somerby really think that if we stop labeling racist thinking "racism", that it will go away and people will stop behaving in racist ways? <br /><br />The opposite is true. Racist beliefs motivate racist behavior. Such beliefs are so embedded in thought that they make racist actions seem normal, logical, inevitable. It is by making such thoughts explicit and conscious that they can be challenged and changed. And change is surely the goal. Not peace and quiet or the false harmony that arises when oppressed people are made to shut up about their oppression.<br /><br />Somerby is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19313626158945978392017-08-17T10:56:58.113-04:002017-08-17T10:56:58.113-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com