• essell@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    No it isn’t. You might be able to interpret a study that way, if you choose to.

    Actual science doesn’t work that way, it works to exclude choice and bias.

    It’s very easy to find westerners who don’t hate brown people and disprove the idea. There’s literally thousands of them in every town in my country. The racists are a real problem, they’re not even a majority and they’re causing real issues.

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      Yeah, as a research psychologist, I always cringe so hard hearing things like this. There isn’t something special about how white people from regions we lable as “the west” express bigotry. Literally, ever human is capable of creating ingroup outgroup differentiations as illustrated from social identity theory and those can be strongly or weakly oriented towars dominance (i.e. social dominance orientation). I’ve never seen meta analytic evidence showing any subset of the human population to be significantly more prone to social dominance. The thing that makes it so brown people are viewed negatively by “westerners” is the long history of racism pushed by the ruling class to justify atrocities for profit.

      Don’t be campist people, work in solidarity with each other and support your fellow man.

      • EvilTankieDemon@lemmy.zipOP
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        There isn’t something special about how white people from regions we lable as “the west” express bigotry.

        Whoah what the fuck? Nobody implied otherwise lol. What kind of psychologist cant even read properly? You look crazy mate 🤣