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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:28 PM Original message |
Are you racist? The test that claims to know |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. I can be anything IF I choose to be n/t |
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Budmeiser (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. 10 bucks Michael Richards won't take it |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. If anybody should take it, it's him before he does an apology. |
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TheBaldyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. I took it a couple of years back but it said I wasn't racist, so I don't really agree |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. Thanks for the links |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Well, the test was devised at Harvard. |
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survivor999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
43. Wrong. The faculty who came up with it did so at Yale. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:11 PM Response to Reply #43 |
49. Thanks for the correction. |
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survivor999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:30 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. Not sure it's on the site... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. OK, I'll cop to "strong automatic preference for European American compared to African American" |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. I think everyone has potential to be some sort of "ist" |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. My problem with bigotry isn't that I do recognize we all have |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
31. Yep, you nailed that concept. Rove appealed to the worst in people, not the best. |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. Me and 17% of the people who took the test |
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MrPrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. As an online quiz, I rate it... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
35. I have a couple of problems with the images the researchers used |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think the test is bullshit |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Don't blame the messenger. |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. When I took it, it associated blacks with bad first. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:00 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. doesn't matter which order. |
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Minnesota_Lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
29. What they are looking for, IMO, is not the answer for the current pix but... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I think that's exactly what they are doing. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #29 |
59. I think your interpretation is right. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:30 PM Response to Reply #16 |
36. That could cause a primacy effect |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. I would imagine they have compensated for that mathematically. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. somehow i doubt it |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:08 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. LOL. Whatever. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:10 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Not if you have a point to prove |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:00 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. not research like this |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:09 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Do you have anything of substance to contribute to this conversation? |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:23 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. considering im not privy to their methodology |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:28 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Well, you didn't look very far, then |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. fact remains, it gives you feedback on your individual test. I took the test several times |
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survivor999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
42. That's why it is called a DEMO. A DEMO. A DEMO. |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. I took the test. |
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anarch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. huh |
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Minnesota_Lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between African American and European American |
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stepnw1f (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. I Got the Same (nt) |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. Very interesting tests! |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
22. I'm with 17% of respondents... |
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EdwardM (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. I'm a racist. |
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stepnw1f (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:11 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Racists Need Rehab? |
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EdwardM (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Do I need to spell it out for you? |
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stepnw1f (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:18 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. What is anit-Jewish? |
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jaysunb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:31 PM Response to Reply #23 |
37. Me Too !! |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
33. Only 17% of us score no marked preference one way or the other |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:25 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. There is a problem no doubt. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
39. Funny, after spending a lot of my formative years in the south |
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VelmaD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
40. Apparently I don't like white people... |
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Crankie Avalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
41. Yippee! I'm one of the 17% with little to no automatic preference... |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
44. hmmm. interesting result for me. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
46. It's just as easy to call someone a 'racist' as it is to use the "n" word. |
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survivor999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:31 PM Response to Reply #46 |
55. Also, by slapping a label on others... |
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fleabert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
48. Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for African American compared to European American. |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
50. "slight automatic preference" |
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sniffa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
52. i'm not racist |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-22-06 01:11 PM Response to Reply #52 |
60. Funny, sniffa, I thought you just hated people n/t |
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sniffa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-22-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. you know me weLL |
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KingFlorez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
56. I've taken that test before |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-21-06 03:37 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Even the developer of the test admits to cultural conditioning |
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