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So a Yale Study published in 2018 found that white liberals are very racist when talking to black people. Researchers called this racism "competence downshifting." What that means is subconsciously, liberals and more notably progressives , like the ones that frequent this board, will intentionally use simpler words, fewer competence, related terms and more warmth words when speaking to black people and they do it without even thinking about it. Meaning, deep down, where it matters, they truly feel sorry for black people and see them as inferior when it comes to intelligence!

The Study also concluded that this effect did not appear among white conservatives who used the same level of vocabulary regardless of the color of the audience.

I’ll be adding more information over the coming weeks.



White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-Americans | Yale Insights https://share.google/XlITZEEdItmhps7BC

Now that's progress: Cowardly Lying Mike admits that implicit bias exists. He agrees with progressives (who have never denied their own implicit biases). With that progress completed, how about we look at the broad literature that addresses the nature of implicit bias. Hint: you'll never see Cowardly Lyin Mike post those studies.

Here's a good summary article that explains what implicit bias is, how it is measured, and the relationship between implicit and explicit bias. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.117 ... 6211070781

TL/DR Our brains have implicit biases based on group stereotypes that we aren't consciously aware of. Those biases should not be confused with the explicit biases that we are aware of and can be properly categorized as "racist," "sexist," etc. The problem is that those biases can be translated into harmful, discriminatory behavior without anyone realizing it is happening. One of the best examples is what's called the "veil of darkness" studies.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/ ... ffic-stops\

An analysis of 95 million traffic stops showed a puzzling fact: black drivers are stopped by law enforcement at a much lower rate at night, when the LEOS can't see the race of the driver. In fact, as darkness sets in, the rate that black drivers are arrested steadily falls. As it gets light, the rate steadily rises.

So, when LEOs can see that the driver of a vehicle is black, they are more likely to stop it.

Are the LEOs racist? Only if they are explicitly biased, i.e., they deliberately stop black drivers because they think black folks are criminals. Otherwise, no. They are acting on implicit bias they are not aware of.

Use the Google and you can find lots of these studies. They show some particular problems in the justice system where implicit bias occurs at many steps in the process, compounding the resulting harm.

It's really refreshing to see Cowardly Lyin Mike finally admit that implicit bias exists. Remember, you can't spell "progressive" without "progress."

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 06, 2026 12:36 am

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https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2020/ ... ffic-stops\

An analysis of 95 million traffic stops showed a puzzling fact: black drivers are stopped by law enforcement at a much lower rate at night, when the LEOS can't see the race of the driver. In fact, as darkness sets in, the rate that black drivers are arrested steadily falls. As it gets light, the rate steadily rises.

So, when LEOs can see that the driver of a vehicle is black, they are more likely to stop it.

Are the LEOs racist? Only if they are explicitly biased, i.e., they deliberately stop black drivers because they think black folks are criminals. Otherwise, no. They are acting on implicit bias they are not aware of.

Use the Google and you can find lots of these studies. They show some particular problems in the justice system where implicit bias occurs at many steps in the process, compounding the resulting harm.

It's really refreshing to see Cowardly Lyin Mike finally admit that implicit bias exists. Remember, you can't spell "progressive" without "progress."

One of the studies that really stood out to me when I first encountered it was one on officers identifying a weapon held by a "suspect," and race. When the "suspect" in the study had common prototypical physical characteristics of black individuals, the tendency to identify benign objects as weapons increased. This trend was the same regardless of the race of the officers participating in the study (i.e. black officers and white officers both tended to identify benign objects as a weapon, if the "suspect" was black, with black officers having a slightly higher rate [insert stereotype threat here, I imagine]).

https://youtu.be/-vac24IP-2A?si=vctq_3hHc-rQqu33

This video talking about the Yale study explains it perfectly!!

The lady in the video basically explains that when progressives see black skin, because they are racist, they automatically lower their expectations. That is without a doubt, the pure definition of racism.

Oh, Cowardly Lyin Mike, you and the MAGA brain you tube lady can’t take it back now. You’ve admitted that inherent bias exists. You believe in structural bias. Hell, you’ve become a full on believer in Critical Race Theory. Keep it up!

I love this line from HoH’s linked article:

The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in speeches delivered to mostly white audiences. The difference wasn’t statistically significant in speeches by Republican candidates, though “it was harder to find speeches from Republicans delivered to minority audiences,” Dupree notes.

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By the way, the same author wrote another article about the other side of the same coin:

Black and Latinx Conservatives ‘Upshift’ Competence to White Audiences

A new study by Yale SOM’s Cydney Dupree finds that when politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans speak in mostly White settings, they are more likely than their liberal counterparts to adopt language associated with power, status, and ability. In a previous study, Dupree found that White liberals “downshift” their competence when speaking with Black audiences, while White conservatives don’t.

Cydney Hurston Dupree
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Written by Mike Cummings - July 28, 2021

This article originally appeared in YaleNews.

When communicating in mostly White settings, politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans use words associated with competence more often than their liberal counterparts, distancing themselves from negative racial stereotypes, according to a new study by Yale social psychologist Cydney Dupree.

The study, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, combined several experiments to show that Black and Latinx conservatives, specifically those who are less concerned with social and economic inequality (“hierarchy-based conservatives”), are more likely to adopt language associated with power, status, and ability than liberals when addressing White people or operating in predominantly White spaces, including the halls of Congress.

Full article at: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/ ... -audiences

People are reacting within the context of structural racism … the thing that AtlanticHound claims does not exist.

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 09, 2026 9:53 pm

Oh, Cowardly Lyin Mike, you and the MAGA brain you tube lady can’t take it back now. You’ve admitted that inherent bias exists. You believe in structural bias. Hell, you’ve become a full on believer in Critical Race Theory. Keep it up!

He proves the inherent bias point himself by pushing White Nationalist talking points:

Hound of Heaven wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 29, 2025 3:57 pm

It is important to understand that these progressive Marxists aim to inundate America with undocumented immigrants, ultimately seeking to dismantle the system established by a group of white men in the late 1700s. They believe that if America is destroyed, whiteness will also be destroyed.

I’m going to quibble. Cowardly Lyin Mike’s white nationalism is explicit bias.

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 09, 2026 11:10 pm

I’m going to quibble. Cowardly Lyin Mike’s white nationalism is explicit bias.

I’m going with ‘weird racist hangup’. That works, too, right?

canpakes wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 09, 2026 11:12 pm

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 09, 2026 11:10 pm

I’m going to quibble. Cowardly Lyin Mike’s white nationalism is explicit bias.

I’m going with ‘weird racist hangup’. That works, too, right?

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If by “weird” you mean Nazi, I’m good.