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Maraya1969

(22,474 posts)
5. Well wait. They studied over 15,000 people for many years and they found that
Sun Jul 21, 2013, 09:45 AM
Jul 2013

the ones with the lower IQ tests results tended more toward conservatism and racism. I believe that. Conservatives like things black and white. So do racists. To be able to think abstractly is to be able to accept new ideas and accept people. Racists are like my neighbor who looks at a statistics of high black crime and comes to the conclusion that blacks are criminals. Non-racists know how to think and realize other factors are going on such as profiling, blacks being convicted much more often than whites and other things.

And grant it from that perspective there would be other things that contribute to racism and conservatism also. Especially what you are taught.

I was looking for an explanation of that one man's "debunking" which it seems is has been "debunked itself.

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