If racism precludes whites from accepting my legitimacy then no amount of modulating on my part will change their attitudes
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So then I'm stuck, without a cloak to calling racism racist and without legitimacy to change racists' attitudes.
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For some of us that does feel like a crappy argument worthy of mocking because it is so defeating as to be demoralizing
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To wit: https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/804195055280001026 … it's not the psychology but the very bad inferences drawn from it here & overly broad claims
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As if the value of attitudes outweighs value to victims of racism to be able to label actors racists feels like crap
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Probably the intent is to tell elite whites not to sneer at non elite whites? And maybe that's a claim but I can read too and I'm here
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So I assume I'm the reader and the claim doesn't hold for me. And yeah maybe then whites start virtue signaling but that's not on me
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Anyway racism isn't attitudes, politics can happen without a come to Jesus talk, & hearts usually change after material conditions change
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Again, with all due respect to the fields of psychology and social psych. But honestly I think even they'd agree with me here in part
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That is exactly the finding. Behavior can change without attitude/belief, and if anything behavior precedes belief change.
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The problem is "road to Damascus" conversion is a better movie, so many assume that's the norm/only path.
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I think cognitive behavior therapy might concur. I think.
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