Originally Posted by isaac
That's the point, Dynomite. They unknowingly befriend a person of a race they hate and then go and meet irl to find out that the person was actually a race he hated and be mindfucked because he's friends with them.
I don't think it would have much effect on a racist person though, tbh. If you're racist you're already closed minded enough to assume a few traits over a huge amount of people, or even just hate them for no reason.
Racism is a form of hate. Where does hate stem from? How one is nurtured, what one is taught, the environment in which one is raised. If you are exposed to a different environment, the hate can be un-taught, so to speak.
Hoss.
I doubt you'll be able to un-teach racism to the majority, maybe a small number of racists but not all of them, my reasoning is that things learnt in childhood are better learnt than in adult life.
It's an easier plan to let the internet take it's course and create a less racist population each generation.
It's an easier plan to let the internet take it's course and create a less racist population each generation.
Just pointing out, on the internet people are 100x as racist, it is just that it doesn't come up as often, because, as you mentioned, it isn't as obvious.
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Originally Posted by Hyde
If we were to take 500 racist people, and a mix of other races they hate(double blind, however, it would be needed to tell the other races not to expose their race)...
Would having this study be considered unethical and damaging?
I have to come up with some sort of study for statistics(and actually do it), so I'd like some opinions to perfect this.
On the subject of if it would be ethically valid, no.
The people would either have to be
A) Told exactly what the study was about, meaning they would be suspicious and hostile to everyone they were interacting with or just flat out refuse to do it (racially prejudiced people don't usually tend to be the most open minded folk anyway)
OR
B) Not told about what they were doing until the end, meaning that it would not follow ethical guidelines in terms of not gaining informed consent from the participants and could very well be offensive and damaging to the participants.
In summary, it's a very interesting topic to discuss, but very difficult to test with any sort of validity.
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Originally Posted by teacozzy
On the subject of if it would be ethically valid, no.
The people would either have to be
A) Told exactly what the study was about, meaning they would be suspicious and hostile to everyone they were interacting with or just flat out refuse to do it (racially prejudiced people don't usually tend to be the most open minded folk anyway)
OR
B) Not told about what they were doing until the end, meaning that it would not follow ethical guidelines in terms of not gaining informed consent from the participants and could very well be offensive and damaging to the participants.
In summary, it's a very interesting topic to discuss, but very difficult to test with any sort of validity.
I disagree, more racy studies are done all the time with no complaints, for instance students have consented to a study in which they are arrested and interrogated by other students dressed in formal police uniform, all in order to see the effects of interrogation, (Can't find the source for this, sorry.) they only were informed that they would be interrogated by other students. This is hardly a tough study on the people involved.
