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To: bentway who wrote (647164)	3/7/2012 7:20:43 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1579993

Does listening to rock make you racist? Seven minutes of Bruce Springsteen makes students favour white people over others [ Liberal researchers desparate search for racism. Well, that explains the racism on this thread: Message 27913205 ] By Rob Waugh Last updated at 12:57 PM on 6th March 2012 Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver: Rock groups which flirt with Nazi imagery reflect the association between rock and white people Just a few minutes of listening to mainstream rock music such as Bruce Springsteen and the White Stripes is enough to make white students focus on the interests of other whites at the expense of back people and latinos. White students who listened to Top 40 pop - made by artists such as Gwen Stefani and Akon - were fairer towards other ethnic groups. The researchers, who tested 138 students with different genres, say the finding shows that because rock is associated with white people, people unconsciously favour their own race after listening. Students were told they were taking part in a study of how funds should be distributed in college - and offered a range of ethnic-based groups to share money between. After listening to Bruce Springsteen and the White Stripes, the students handed most of the money to white people. ‘Rock music is generally associated with white Americans, so we believe it cues white listeners to think about their positive association with their own in-group,’ said Heather LaMarre, an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. ‘That was enough for them to show more support for a student group representing mostly whites.’ After listening to Top 40 pop such as Gwen Stefani, Akon and Fergie, the students divided money more equally between white people, black people and latinos. ‘Music has a lot of power to influence our thoughts and actions, more than we often recognize,’ said associate professor Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. ‘It has the power to reinforce our positive biases toward our own group, and sometimes negative biases toward others.’ The effect was multiplied in students who listened to radical 'white power' groups such as Prussian Blue, Skrewdriver and Bound for Glory. ‘We saw very targeted, almost punitive take-aways from the African-American and Arab-American groups by those who listened to the radical white power rock,’ Knobloch-Westerwick said. After listening to Top 40 pop such as Gwen Stefani, Akon (pictured) and Fergie, the students divided money more equally between white people, black people and latinos Bruce Springsteen: Even mainstream rock with no race-related lyrics was enough to make white students favour their own race, the study found ‘Those who listened to the rock music gave more to the white group, but split the rest equally among the other three – in other words they weren't punitive against the others as were the listeners of the white power rock.’ Participants sat for seven minutes while the music played in the background before they started what they thought was the 'real' part of the study, dividing money between different ethnic-based college groups. When each participant arrived for the study, they were told to wait for the beginning of the session. They were placed in a waiting room with music playing softly in the background. They were not allowed to have access to any other media, including music players, computers, phones or reading materials. The participants were then called in and told they had the opportunity to give feedback about how their tuition money should be distributed to four student groups - called the Centres of African American Studies, Latino American Studies, Arab American Studies, and Rural and Agricultural Studies. Findings showed that those who listened to the Top 40 music split the funds nearly equally – about one-fourth of the money to each of the four groups. Those who listened to the mainstream rock gave about 35 percent of the funds to the white-American group – and roughly equal amounts to the other three groups. Those who listened to the radical white power rock gave the most of all the participants to the white-American group – about 40 percent. They gave about 25 percent to the Latino-American group, about 16 percent to the African-American group and about 15 percent to the Arab-American group. Knobloch-Westerwick said that even mainstream rock, with no race-related lyrics, had a strong effect. ‘It shows that it is not just the lyrics that matter. Good, old-fashioned rock and roll – with no incendiary or hateful lyrics at all – was enough of a cue to increase the percentage of money allocated for the white-American group,’ she said. ‘This appears to be the first study to show that music genre itself, not just the lyrics, has the potential to be a very powerful influence on people.’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2110959/Does-listening-rock-make-racist-Five-minutes-Bruce-Springsteen-makes-students-favour-white-people-others.html#ixzz1oQtNUiMk

To: bentway who wrote (647164)	3/7/2012 11:22:53 AM
From: PROLIFE	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1579993

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To: bentway who wrote (647164)	3/7/2012 11:37:55 AM
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Is Sandra Fluke Coordinating with the White House? Liberal activist Sandra Fluke made her case to the mostly female audience of the ABC show "The View," where she claimed —apparently without irony— that she is being silenced by Rush Limbaugh. She also gave a significant clue that her "stunned” sense of outrage seems to be a scripted part of a larger narrative trifecta: supporting Obamacare, destroying religious liberty and silencing the right. Anyone who follows the Institutional Left was probably suspicious when President Obama called Ms. Fluke on the phone in his unofficial role as Community Organizer in Chief. I scoured the history books and can't find another case of a sitting president personally contacting a US citizen because a radio talk show host had said something about them that hurt their feelings. Certainly, President Obama made no such called to Laura Ingraham when MSNBC's Ed Schultz called her a slut. Ms. Fluke described the President as "kind." However, Ms. Fluke pulled back the curtain midway through her interview on "The View" when she suggested that viewers head over to the website of Media Matters for America. As The Daily Caller recently exposed, there's been a high level of coordination between the White House and Media Matters for America, so of course it's no shock that Ms. Fluke chose MMFA as her leftist propaganda arm of choice. One of Media Matters’s main jobs has been shutting down right wing media voices were ever possible. They want a world with no Breitbart.com, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh or any dissenting voices in the run-up to the 2012 election. The level of coordination should concern anyone because it's the president using his position and bully pulpit as a way to quell criticism by utilizing the Institutional Left’s infrastructure. Of course, The View is a perfectly fair and balanced source on the subject since they have Elizabeth Hasselback as their resident conservative. She had not heard Rush Limbaugh's statements before viewing the heavily edited video clip shown on The View but her gut reaction was “repulsed.” Aren’t you glad the conservative view was represented? breitbart.com