Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (681342)	10/27/2012 1:23:53 PM
From: PROLIFE	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1574412

yawwwwwwwwwn.. the biggest racist are black people. they have figured out that the half black guy has tossed them under the bus for the Mexicans. There are WAY more votes in that category.

To: tejek who wrote (681342)	10/27/2012 1:40:17 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574412

>> Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 WTF do you expect with a president behaving as this one has? Do you think it doesn't create racial animosity when a president, on the basis of race, declares a white police office to have misbehaved after he simply did his job? When the major news media are constantly accusing whites of being racists without any basis whatsoever? When the first African American president has been grossly incompetent in practically everything he's done? Do you actually believe that doesn't affect racial attitudes?

To: tejek who wrote (681342)	10/28/2012 2:50:44 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574412

Ted, that survey is not only stupid, it's designed as a "gotcha" on the American public's attitude toward race relations. Take this part, for instance: The explicit racism measures asked respondents whether they agreed or disagreed with a series of statements about black and Hispanic people. In addition, the surveys asked how well respondents thought certain words, such as "friendly," ''hardworking," ''violent" and "lazy," described blacks, whites and Hispanics. Those are leading questions! First of all, respondents are asked to judge an ENTIRE RACIAL GROUP according to each given characteristic. That makes the survey itself inherently racist. Second, how the hell did the researchers who designed the survey judge which responses were "racist" or "prejudiced"? We can find out by reading the actual research paper: comm.stanford.edu Here's an example: Explicit racial attitudes were gauged using questions designed to measure “Symbolic Racism” (Henry & Sears, 2002). The questions, averaged into a single index, were: “Irish, Italians, Jewish1, and other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without special favors.” Really? A question like that will measure what the researchers call "symbolic racism"? That's a crock, and I suspect the researchers and their cohorts in the AP know it. Tenchusatsu