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Tim J. Wise | Affirmative Action (Racial Preference in Black and White)
Pg 22. Excerpts
"...a survey by the National Opinion Research Center, sixty two percent of whites think blacks are generally lazier than other groups, fifty six percent say they are more prone to violence and fifty three percent say they are generally less intelligent"*
* Data quoted from Tom W. Smith "Ethnic Images," General Social Survey (GSS) Technical Report 19 (Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, January 1991)
"After all how can someone who believes blacks are lazy, less intelligent than whites and prone to violence be expected to treat members of that stigmatized group equally with their white counterparts."
"In other words, when evaluating black applicants for a job, whites who are prejudiced will be more likely to treat them unfavourably when the blacks in question have some negative quality that can be used as the 'real reason' for their exclusion. Yet white evaluators cut slack to whites with the same questionable attributes, indicating a tendency to magnify negatives for blacks while minimizing them for whites..."
How does this relate to fannish enterprises?
Well, despite what some fans would say, it's more than possible that some actors are being picked on race rather than merit. And those actors are the white ones.
This is episode one of: Harshing The Squee
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The thing I hate the most about all the stress and anxiety I've been under, is that it's limited my downtime activities.
I adore the show Jericho. It's smart and cunning and brilliantly written / woven.
But I can only watch it when I can pause the action and take a deep breath and calm down. Because I'm just too highly strung right now. It means I've missed out and supporting it by watching it on channel with ads.
And it's not the only thing I've stopped watching; anime, movies, I can't handle much of anything these days that's not specifically geared for 10 and under.
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Poll #1069 If Urban Fantasy Was A Colour
Open to: All, results viewable to: All
If UF was a colour, what colour would it be?
If you chose other, tell me here.
If you chose shades of blue, then which?
If you chose other shade of blue, tell me here.
Would UF be more than one colour? A colour blend?
Is this ticky box gratuitious pandering to the ticky box faction?
On a scale of one to 10, how much do you love the ticky box?
Ticky - Was It Good For You?
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