Questions tagged [racism]
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Is the Implicit Association Test effective at determining an individual's biases?
A recent post on the Stack Overflow blog, Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change., discusses the problems that members of marginalized groups may experience when participating on Stack Exchange. Most of the post focuses on…
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Did Antifa distribute this pamphlet?
This is the pamphlet I'm talking about:
The evil white race must be destroyed!
The white racist and their Heeb masters must be purged from the face of the earth!
The children of the white racists are the future of the white race. This is where we…
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Has ISIS and Al Qaeda sent out a message telling their terrorists to only attack white people?
Rush Limbaugh stated on the Rush Limbaugh show that ISIS and Al Qaeda sent out a memo to their people saying to not attack minorities, only white people. Their reasoning? If they kill minorities, Democrats will think Republicans where responsible…
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Were there no "white" people in Virginia between 1619 and 1679?
The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no
'white'…
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Were slaves only allowed to play the black keys of a piano?
I've gotten an e-mail to this effect a couple of times now, mainly centering around the story behind the song "Amazing Grace". The basic idea is that old Negro spirituals were based on the black keys of the piano because slaves weren't permitted to…
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Were Boundary Streets in Queensland named as boundaries that Indigenous Australians were not allowed to cross?
This Facebook post has been shared over 7000 times:
Do you know the history of the many Boundary Streets around Qld?
It was the boundary of where Indigenous Australians were not allowed to cross after 4pm weekdays/Saturdays and not at all on…
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Did Emperor Norton ever kneel in defiance of racist mobs?
There is a rumour on the Chinese internet that during one of the anti-Chinese riots in the 1860s, Norton stood in front of the Chinese migrants, and, facing the rabid racist mobs, kneeled down and recited bible verses. This caused the mobs to walk…
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Did actors playing different ape species refuse to eat together during the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967?
According to Futility Closet (attributed to Planet of the Apes Revisited, 2001):
During the filming of Planet of the Apes in 1967, Charlton Heston noted “an instinctive segregation on the set. Not only would the apes eat together, but the…
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Is this "whites killed by whites" diagram wrong?
I found the following diagram on twitter:
(Sorry for not giving the source: I don't know how to link there.)
The diagram gives the impression that if you're a white person (in USA), then you're about equally likely to be murdered by a black person…
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Do minimum wage laws disproportionately harm black employment?
There is a common claim that applying minimum wage laws impacts the poorer members of society, and thus impacts poorer minorities, such as blacks, more than others.
Milton Friedman openly argued that minimum-wage laws are racist in effect if not…
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Were 14 million abortions performed on African Americans from 1973 to 2006?
The 2006 book Freed Indeed: The Spiritual Wealth of Black America at page 45 says:
since 1973 over fourteen million black babies have been aborted ... at fourteen million, these abortions exceed all other causes of death of African Americans by…
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Is this video of an attack on an elderly Asian woman authentic?
A video of what appears to be an attack on an elderly Asian woman has been posted on social media, with the following description:
UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON ELDERLY ASIAN WOMAN
A 69-year-old woman was walking when a man assaulted and robbed her Thursday…
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Did Adria Richards tweet "Black people CANNOT be racist..."?
Did Adria Richards (known for the "donglegate" and similar incidents) ever tweet the following?
Black people CANNOT be racist against White poeple. Racist is a
position of the opressor who has the power
The source of the claim is alleged…
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Were evangelicals rallied around abortion in 1978, as a substitute for segregation?
The June 20, 2019 edition of NPR’s “Throughline” podcast “examines how the issue of abortion became a defining political issue for evangelicals.”
In it, the hosts talk about evangelicals initially ignoring, or even welcoming, Roe v. Wade, noting…
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Has Stephen Bannon ever used the word "nigger" publicly?
According to this video, Charles Kaiser said in reference to Trump’s choice of White House senior adviser, Stephen Bannon,
“then don’t choose … a man who uses the word nigger …”
Has Stephen Bannon ever used the word "nigger" publicly?
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