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Whites engage in more racist acts after declaring support for Obama, study...
How Obama could be bad for racial equality (BPS Research Digest): Daniel Effron and colleagues presented dozens of predominantly White undergrad students with one of two scenarios that would reveal...
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“Ofey” (Richard Feynman) on “the blacks”
Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988) was a famous theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner, and sexist. Feynman thought for himself and rebelled against social convention, tradition, and “The Man”. However,...
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Men overestimate their intelligence in all 12 countries, research finds
International Men Of Immodesty (Medical News Today): “We found a consistent difference in how intelligent men and women believe themselves to be; with men giving themselves significantly higher levels...
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Gender difference in math ability variability driven by social inequality,...
Gender gap in maths driven by social factors, not biological differences (Not Exactly Rocket Science): Since 1894, some scientists have suggested that men have a greater variability in intellectual...
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Libertarianism is rational for rich white people only.
Libertarianism is a political philosophy that is fiscally conservative, but socially liberal—except when it concerns social issues that involve money or property. Stereotypically, libertarianism is...
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Evolutionary psychologists invent narratives based on faulty assumptions.
In Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around? The fault, dear Darwin, lies not in our ancestors, but in ourselves., Sharon Begley (Newsweek) writes: These have not been easy days for evolutionary...
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People of colour are not a story of suffering . . . Or resistance.
We are multifaceted. And stories in which we neither suffer nor resist are just as authentic. They are a part of our daily lives. (Click on “View subtitles” to turn on the subtitles.) Chimamanda...
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The Orientalist Riff is an example of white culture and tradition.
The typical white liberal assumes that non-white people have more “culture” than white people, and may express “envy” as an attempted compliment. Given that white liberals feel that they are denied...
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White people’s family roots are deeper than those of ethnic minorities.
Another example of white privilege and othering is when white people assume that racialized people have deeper roots and stronger family ties than white people. The othering is based on the notion that...
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Haiti was the first black country to get its independence.
“Immigrant” Def Poetry by Wyclef Jean (2005):
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White people do not understand PoC’s existential angst.
Existential angst is portrayed and experienced as individual suffering. In white-majority countries, white people tend to think of other whites as individuals with individual identities, but they tend...
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Google’s race and gender makeup is Trade Secret in tech business, says Google
Google, Don’t Be Hypocritical (NBC Bay Area, emphasis mine): Despite its supposed mission to “organize the world’s information,” Google has fought to hide data about the race and gender makeup of its...
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“Oh Canada” rap forgets about black Canadians.
In the “Oh… Canada” rap by Canadian rapper Classified, the white Nova Scotian dispels many stereotypes about Canada. The actual lyrics are great, but the video is 100% white. One really annoying...
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White people lack empathy for brown people, brain research shows.
New research from the University of Toronto-Scarborough shows that white people’s mirror-neuron-system fires much less, if at all, when they watch people of colour performing motor tasks, and I’m not...
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Asians are not all rich.
There is a ridiculous post at 8asians titled Asian Men Have The Highest Salary that was linked from Racialicious for some reason. The author, Tim, writes: If you were looking for another reason to date...
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Privilege and Perspective: White people are different.
Elon James White (abridged; video and transcript via Womanist Musings): So we’re all familiar with the Black comedian doing “Black people do this, white people do that jokes.” I was thinking, because...
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Canada’s Recent Immigrants’ Country of Birth, 2006
You can click on the map below to see a larger version. Top 10 places of birth 155 105 People’s Republic of China 129 140 India 77 880 Philippines 57 630 Pakistan 38 770 United States of America 35 450...
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Canadian Black History Month teaches us that Canada is “not racist”.
In Why I am Skipping Black History Month Renee of Womanist Musings writes: When I was a child, Black history month consisted of the traditional lecture on Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad,...
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Othering and Projection: Chinese is confusing vs. Chinese are confused
In English, a person says, “It’s all Greek to me,” when they do not understand the words of someone else. In Greek, when a person does not understand, they say it sounds like Chinese. Many languages...
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White Americans did NOT elect Obama.
This myth won’t die: But not everyone buys that script. Mona Charen, a conservative columnist for the National Review, challenges that view with this question: If more white Americans feel like an...
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