"When are White people going to fix that problem?"

[RogersParkGuy]

Originally Posted by EddieB.Good

That's the title of a thread that never gets posted. Yet, every week, multiple times a week, multiple posters on here will create a thread to specifically denigrate Black people. Why is that? The best part is those threads almost always lead into criticisms about how Blacks are so obsessed w/ making things racial...

At first, I was all bent on arguing w/ these people that obviously turn to Bill O'Reilly for their info on Black people, but recently it occurred to me how sad and pathetic it is to come on to an internet forum, just to create hate threads about a race you never interact with.

And then there's the motive of finding the random story and somehow deciding that element is an accurate representation of Black people as a whole. What kind of agenda would a Black person need to create a thread every time a high school teacher got busted w/ one of their students and say "White people..." Yet everyday there are race-baiters on this site showing their obsession with Blacks.

What do Conservatives think about all these Black-obsessed threads? And the lack of similarly-obsessed threads to other groups by Liberals?

It has to do with a psychological frailty we all have called confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret new information, or new experiences, in ways that back up what we already believe, or wish to believe. Racism depends heavily on confirmation bias.

For example, when a white man kills, white people will think, "That man is a killer." They may wonder about what his motive was--was it money, jealousy, rage?

But when a black man kills, white people will think, "Black people are killers." They generally will not wonder about the motive, because in their minds, that black man was just doing what black men do. For that reason, in the mind of racists, the act of that particular black man implicates all black men.

That is how all forms of prejudice work. It is the same reason men who have a few bad experiences with women will thereafter often mistrust all women. But people generally only do this to individuals who belong to outside groups--i.e. to groups the prejudiced person does not belong to or sympathize with.

[elnina]

I'm not completely convinced that was the motivation behind this thread, but I know this is the result it got. It's hardly constructive and serves no real purpose.
I'm closing it for mods review