[news] Reflections on the Psychopathology of Racist Thinking

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Racists...forward arguments using techniques that are exactly the opposite of social science, and which instead resemble nothing so much as traditional propaganda...[T]he scientific method begins with a hypothesis and then examines all the evidence, for and against that hypothesis, without presuming to know what the data will suggest in the end. White supremacists...begin with an unshakeable belief - black people are dangerous and out to harm whites - and then find any evidence they can that fits their hypothesis, while discounting all evidence suggesting that their preconceived notions are nonsense. 

  


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