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They did it because their investors called them out at a major meeting. Without that, Bob Chapek would’ve happily gone on.

If you’re white and live in America, the smarter you are, the less likely you are to say you agree with racist stereotypes or principles. But you’re not more likely than your dumber counterparts to actually want to do anything about racial inequality.

That’s the finding of a new study that looked at nearly three decades of answers to the General Social Survey, a survey that asks about attitudes on everything from government spending, to the existence of God, to race. By giving a short vocabulary test—something that’s a pretty good predictor of how well someone will do on a longer IQ test—the data shows roughly how smart someone is. From there, it’s possible to see how intelligence changes what someone thinks about race.

People who score lower on the vocab test are much more likely to hold racist stereotypes and say black people are “lazy” or “unintelligent.” They’re also more likely to disapprove of intermarriage, and not to want a black family living next door.

Smarter respondents disagreed, but held similarly racist views when it came to actual government policy. Almost everyone with higher verbal scores agreed that “whites have no right to segregate their neighborhoods,” for example. But half of those say they wouldn’t vote for a law designed to prevent prejudice in real estate transactions.

And while 95% of the “smarter” group say that black and white children should attend the same schools, only 22% support school busing programs. The lowest-scoring people actually support busing programs a little more (27%).

“I was most surprised by the finding that individuals with higher cognitive abilities were no more likely—on average—than individuals with lower cognitive abilities to support even the most benign opportunity-enhancing policies designed to remedy racial inequality, such as non-discrimination laws in the housing market, despite reporting significantly lower levels of overt prejudice,” says study author Geoffrey Wodtke, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.

Among researchers, there are two competing theories about intelligence and racism. Some believe that prejudice is born out of ignorance and narrow-mindedness; the smarter you are, the theory goes, the better you can handle complex information without resorting to simple stereotypes. Several studies seem to support this idea.

The alternative theory: Smarter people are just better at rationalizing their prejudices. If another group is competing for resources—for example, if poor children are bussed in to your own kid’s elementary school—you might come up with reasons to tell yourself that’s not a good idea while still claiming that you’re not racist.

The new study seems to support this second theory; people with school-age kids are most likely to oppose busing, and unemployed adults are more likely to oppose affirmative action in hiring. And older generations are more likely to have racist attitudes even if they’re “smart”; if intelligence really was the only factor, they would have been more likely to be less prejudiced than their peers.

As Wodtke writes in the study, “A strong interpretation of these results is that whites with higher cognitive ability are simply more sophisticated racists than their counterparts with lower ability.”

this is why i’ve always thought “ignorant” was a misnomer for racists and racism because it made it seem that the only people who were racist were white people from backwoods with thick southern accents or something. i’ve known and met some seriously racist white people with advanced degrees, passports with mad stamps and a few “black friends.”

Yeah, honey, you are. Own it and work against it. And if that feels tiring, just imagine what it might feel like if you could never stop thinking about your race and how it affects your life.

YES HELLO

Saying that the Southern States deserve what they get for voting the way they do does NOT help.  Surprise! When you say people deserve the abject poverty and shitty conditions they’re living in, it does not help!  What a concept!

i found out like this

Black Panther:

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a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

YouTube is cracking down on people looping videos for views/ad revenue. There are people in the comments telling you what to do to make sure YouTube counts your views, but I’ll copy what I’ve seen here:

In addition to not skipping ads, turn your Adblock off and if you have YouTube premium use a different account

if you’re going to use multiple devices, use different accounts for each device.

Don’t loop the video from a playlist and don’t skip parts of the video (in either direction)

If you’re going to play the video multiple times, you must watch some portion of AT LEAST 3 other videos before going back to this video, but you have to play different videos between each watch, and a different number of them too

(I.e. you can’t play nyan cat, Charlie bit my finger, and despacito between every watch, and you shouldn’t stay with 3 between every watch, you should do like, 3 then 5 then 4 then 6 or some other random pattern like that)

Don’t reload the page to restart, don’t click the link from your watch history, don’t skip back in the video to restart

Don’t clear your search or watch history

Like the video, comment, and interact with other comments

Watch on at least 480p and half volume, if you don’t want to disturb people or listen, plug in headphones

from @feeltheaaronburn

smee: but capn! there’s a new app! its not exactly the same but it’s very similar!

captain hook: what’s it called?

what’s up, Y’all, don’t forget to show up to your local Climate Strike tomorrow