Posted on 08/13/2013 7:48:38 PM PDT by lbryce
They just aren't quite so vocal about it, according to one new study.
Despite what they may claim, geniuses are no less likely than their denser peers to be racist, according to a new study from the University of Michigan.
While intelligent white Americans were more likely to support the ideals of racial tolerance, their subsequent responses to specific, race-based policies did not bear out those claims, the study found.
"High-ability whites are less likely to report prejudiced attitudes and more likely to say they support racial integration in principle," said Geoffrey Wodtke, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Michigan and the study's author. "But they are no more likely than lower-ability whites to support open housing laws and are less likely to support school bussing and affirmative action programs."
Of course, bussing and affirmative action programs lie at the center of a heated debate over the government's approach to reducing racial inequality. The Supreme Court, spearheaded by a conservative majority, in 2007 struck down a school integration effort in Washington, while making it clear that affirmative action at the university level is in peril. Conservatives would hardly think their opposition to such policies constituted racism indeed, many say the policies themselves are racist.
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Can somebody define “racist” for me? I have no idea what the word means anymore.
I suppose the truth must be subverted to alleviate liberal paranoia.
85% of the murders and crime in Chicago are caused by Blacks.
4% of crime by Whites with an equal population to Blacks.
Truth be racisms!
Now, theoretically, it means racial bias as exhibited by the dominant racial group, they being the only ones who have the power to enforce their prejudice.
In practice, it now means anyone who expresses dissent with any part of the liberal racial agenda - including (curiously) members of minority races. In other words, blacks cannot possibly be racist, because they are members of a powerless minority, unless they they espouse policies contrary to the dominant liberal screed, when they are.
I hope that makes it absolutely crystal-clear.
P.S. Can YOU explain that last one to me?
They can't; they left them in the park, after defecating on police cars during the latest OWS love-in.
Now they're complaining they don't have any, and it isn't fair that the government doesn't provide clean new ones for them every day.
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