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jussij on Oct 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen

Humans don't seem to require much in the way of a push before racist tendencies emerge:

https://exploringyourmind.com/blue-eyes-and-brown-eyes-the-j...

bonaldi on Oct 30, 2020 | [–]

Suspect there’s more going on there than the naive explanation. Repeatability breaks down quite easily:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/oct/18/racism-psych...

dd36 on Oct 30, 2020 | [–]

Racism is a lazy mental short cut. It reminds me of Robert Cialdini’s research.

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