#ucsdcares

I Was Racially Profiled & #UCSD showed that my life mattered

Posted this Thursday but didn't want to share until I knew it was written/presented in a way that represented the best of UCSD & would inspire others to have the same #TritonPride that I have 🔱

UCSD did more than posting a black square could ever accomplish; from vice provosts to department leaders, UCSD put words into actions to ensure my safety.  

If you feel inspired by my story, I encourage you to join me & other UCSD Ambassadors in supporting UC San Diego's Day of Caring starting on Thursday, May 13 🔱

Magically Profiled - A #GamerGirl Story: Dress like a prospect, not like a suspect”

GamerGirl was Magically Profiled

#GamerGirl:

Emotional Pain --> People are more likely to acknowledge that someone Hyur like me is in emotional pain than someone Black (Deska et al., 2020).

Physical Pain --> People are more likely to acknowledge that someone Asian or Hyur is in physical pain than someone Black (Mende-Siedleckiet al., 2019).

Catfran: You may be Hyur, but your avatar has the darkest skin tone in the entire guild, & you’re not even a Catperson like me or one of the other magical minorities lols

Perhaps you’re confused about what vaccine we have… The FDA approved two vaccines for the #COVID19 pandemic last week (#Pfizer & #Moderna), but there is still no vaccine for racial bias. That pandemic will continue long after COVID is over.

#GamerGirl: True Lols

Catfran: Also, are you a woman in real life?

GamerGirl: My Playstation is entering a tunnel; may lose signal ttyl

The label "people of color" has pros & cons.  It is useful for reflecting a common experience of White racism among non-White groups. In this way, POC is inclusive due to the shared lack of an attribute: not being White.

However, POC obscures heterogeneity in the interpersonal & civic treatment of different minority groups. It implies a White Ceiling on measures of status. The White Ceiling Effect is why people are usually surprised to learn that Asian American incomes surpassed that of White Americans about 30 years ago. Only 2 groups within the PanEthnic label 'Asian American' (Vietnamese & Korean/South Korean) have median annual incomes lower than White Americans.

Moreover, a multiethnic investigation of the Police Officer's Dilemma found that police were faster to shoot someone Black with a gun than someone Hispanic, White, or Asian. Importantly, police were also faster to shoot someone Hispanic than someone White or Asian, and police were faster to shoot someone White than someone Asian.

This means that it's more than just an anti-Black motive at work. It suggests that the cultural saturation of race-specific stereotypes/ biases (aggression/violence regarding Blacks/Hispanics & femininity regarding Asian males) are at play. In addition, the White Ceiling Effect leads to people being surprised to learn that Asians outearn Whites, police are less likely to shoot an Asian male than a White male, & that Whites are less open to living among Black or Hispanic neighbors than Asian neighbors.

Thus, one of the most useful things that Black people & allies can do is to educate others on how America's racial hierarchy of Justice Preferences & racial hierarchy of Institutional Fairness Preferences adversely affects other minority groups. A pluralistic movement of various minority groups may be more successful than either individualistic or collectivistic movements.

This is why I had #AsianLivesMatter stories in Winter Quarter (and even when I lived in Texas) - because the anti-Asian rhetoric from the White House & other prominent figures was leading to a surge in racism against East Asian groups. Moreover, the model minority label results in a perceptual erasure of the difficulties that many Asian American students face, such as institutions being less likely to offer Asians the same financial support, less likely to offer access to social programs and opportunities that Black and Hispanic students may utilize, and corporations are less likely to promote Asian males into management (agentic) positions based on the stereotype of Asian men as feminine (communal) (Lee, 1994; Kang, 2001; Wong, 1998).

Throughout the #GeorgeFloyd protests, many Asian & Hispanic allies have been tweeting/posting with the tag #BlackLivesMatter on social media. One truism of social science is that superordinate groups (or diverse groups/ pluralistic groups) generally accomplish more than one group alone.

Lastly, please keep the protests peaceful. As indicated in the Figure below, violent protests likely helped Nixon win in 1968.