Posted on 09/01/2015 12:11:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A person may not have to "see color" to be racist. Some blind people, just like sighted people, make judgments about others based on their race, according to a new study.
The findings come from interviews conducted in person and over the phone with 25 people who were either born blind or severely visually impaired, or who lost their sight as children or adults. A researcher asked the participants, most of whom lived in the northeast United States, about whether they thought about race and also how it affected their feelings about a person.
The study found that blind people can still have racial stereotypes, but "in all cases it takes them longer to categorize people by race and there is more ambiguity," said Asia M. Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at University of Delaware, who conducted the study.
The study was presented Tuesday at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, but has not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Friedman found that five of the nine respondents who were blind since birth or early childhood reported that they did not think at all about a person's appearance. And according to some respondents, the inability to know a person's race kept them from making snap judgments about them, which is a "good thing," Friedman said. One person she interviewed explained that being blind makes it harder to "judge someone visually right off the top of your head."
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It’s about courage.
They don’t have any.
I guess that is why Justice is blind?
Perhaps they are judging not color but behavior. Like many sighted people of all colors do as well.
An accent, a drawl, enunciation, phrases, etc. It’s not a guarantee, of course.
“I’ve heard blind people have more acute hearing. “
This is actually not true
They just pay more attention to sounds
Stevie Wonder
It is not immoral bias when a demographic group acts much more violently than others, both towards its other members and other groups.
If blacks reformed the family and applied fatherly discipline to the next generation at the same rate whites do now, their crime rate would drop to a quarter of today’s. (Their illegitimacy is 3 times that of whites.)
This article is rather pointless in the context that racism is institutionalized throughout any company with a sizable human resources department or government organization.
the black white supremacist...
But only white ones. </sarcasm>
Maybe it isn’t racism. Maybe it’s experience.
The voice. The smell. The sound of the feet. Whites.blacks and Asians are different even with your eyes closed.
So what? Do the people writing this watch more closely, a pit bull, or a poodle?
“Now how the heck could a blind person tell what race someone is?”
By their smell.
By feeling their nostrils. /sarc
Skin color is just the most obvious means of differentiating those who are members of your tribe from those who are not.
Just like global warming, liberals continually look through the wrong end of the telescope and draw exactly the opposite conclusions than what logic dictates. Society doesn't cause racism: Racism causes society.
This study is exactly what Maya (caller to Rush) was referring to when she said “Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.”
This is the problem pseudo-intellectuals “think they are smart” and go about proving they are not. All they have to do is open their mouth and it becomes apparent they are reciting by rote.
Huh? How are they racist? Do they smell a difference between races?
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