\nAmericans make racist assumptions based on names, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n By David K. Li October 7, 2015 | 9:42am<\/p>\n Americans draw racist conclusions about people they\u2019ve never met just by learning their names, according to researchers who were \u201cdisgusted\u201d by their own findings.<\/p>\n The study, published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, asked subjects to describe their feelings about imaginary characters with stereotypical white names, such as Connor and Wyatt, and stereotypical black names, such as Jamal and DeShawn.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve never been so disgusted with my own data,\u201d said lead author Colin Holbrook, an anthropologist at UCLA.<\/p>\n Test subjects were read a short story about a man \u2014 with either a stereotypical white name or black name \u2014 being bumped at a bar, and then verbally berated.<\/p>\n Test subjects were then asked to describe what they imagined that man to look like and what he did in response to that contact and verbal assault.<\/p>\n \u201cA character with a black-sounding name was assumed to be physically larger, more prone to aggression, and lower in status than a character with a white-sounding name,\u201d said Holbrook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n * And then he fainted.<\/p>\n * This might be a good place for me to tell my Jamal story. Jamal organized an over-30 basketball team, and invited me to play on the otherwise all-black squad. He said it was $30 per man for the entrance fee and uniform, and I wrote him a check on the spot. After the \u201cseason\u201d was over, he said to me, \u201cYou know something? You\u2019re the only guy who paid me.\u201d<\/p>\n * The pathetic snowflake should resign and work at an inner city day care.<\/p>\n * I Wanna Be Black by Lou Reed (1978)<\/p>\n I want to be black * I bet Colin Holbrook lives in a mostly white neighborhood, far from scary low status blacks who he assumes are prone to aggression.<\/p>\n I looked up a picture of Colin Holbrook<\/a>. Every white soft and weak looking guy like him that I know are scared shirtless of blacks and avoid them like the plague.<\/p>\n * Aren\u2019t all of these assumptions justified? Isn\u2019t one of the main liberal complaints that blacks are kept low status because of racism? Different races are obviously different in size. As for aggression, unless you\u2019re taking advantage of the cheap real estate in black neighborhoods, then you are tacitly agreeing with this assumption as well.<\/p>\n * Wyatt Earp hung out in saloons, which led him to get into a famous gunfight, in which he shot three thugs to death. That historically true story resonates with the case study\u2019s racism-proving story.<\/p>\n I remember watching the television show The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, which was broadcast during the years 1955-1961 and starred the handsome actor Hugh O\u2019Brian as the heroic lawman. Therefore the name Wyatt strikes a masculine bell in my mind.<\/p>\n The name DeShawn Earp for a dramatic character would strike me initially as a faggy, drag-queen Black who would screech comically if he\/she were bumped and berated in a bar.<\/p>\n * A friend of mine who works in corrections says he wants to title his memoirs How Many Ways Can You Spell Antoine?<\/p>\n * Not only are these researchers uncool, they\u2019re so princessy they can\u2019t even manage to gin up some rightous outrage at the \u2018racism\u2019 they\u2019ve uncovered. Lefty researchers even just a few years ago would have relished such findings because they provide ammunition for attacking the people they hate. But now a give-me-a-trigger-warning, help-me-avoid-the-taboo reaction seems to set in first . . . .<\/p>\n * Colin Holbrook is obviously a racist, because otherwise why would it even have occurred to him to have conducted a study like this? What put this noxious idea into his head? It\u2019s inherently problematic. UCLA, I demand you expunge this obvious racist from your faculty. He is a disgrace to the study of anthropology.<\/p>\n * What possible point could there be of giving the characters names associated with one race but to draw out racial stereotypes. This was an opportunity for people to recognize an obvious situation to self censor with political correctness. But of course unless 100% did then q e d proof of disgusting racism.<\/p>\n Jamal Jones is playing basketball one on one with Ephraim Goldblatt. What do you predict the final score will be? Correct answer: tie game. Always and forever.<\/p>\n * I\u2019m pretty sure all UCLA offices are (by law) equipped with fainting couches, so luckily no professors were harmed during this episode.<\/p>\n * No one forces black parents to choose freakish names. They choose them voluntarily, and it never seems to occur to anthropologists like Holbrook that black parents DELIBERATELY choose them to be different from typical white names.<\/p>\n Black parents are trying to segregate their kids from white kids by every method they can manage. They harass their kids if they try to talk white. They harass their kids if they study and like to read, etc., etc. They call blacks \u2018oreos\u2019 if they act white in any way, shape, or form. Blacks simply don\u2019t want to integrate at all. Boneheads like Holbrook are oblivious to this fact.<\/p>\n * I knew a Wyatt in high school who was about five foot three, emo looking, and as gay as they come.<\/p>\n Never really been able to respect that name properly anymore.<\/p>\n * And if Colin Holbrook had instead used stereotypical Chinese names set against white names would he have gotten the exact same results \u2014 only this time:<\/p>\n \u201cA character with a white-sounding name was assumed to be physically larger, more prone to aggression, and lower in status than a character with a Chinese-sounding name,\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018The horror! The horror!<\/p>\n * I heard this sort of thing before. If there is some data that might be found racially uncomfortable, the researcher likes to preface with something like this guy, \u201d I have never been so disgusted with my data\u201d and then they go ahead publish it to get the buzz it causes. It like using quotes around a thing to \u201cdistance the author from it\u201d.<\/p>\n * Someone gave Jamal his name deliberately. His mother knew that the name Jamal was 1000x more likely to be a prison inmate\u2019s first name than a CEO or Ivy League professor. Jamal\u2019s mother was more interested in \u201ckeepin\u2019 it real\u201d and raised him accordingly.<\/p>\n Names have connotations, even within just one race. Like white. Here are some connotations I would personally attach for some white names:<\/p>\n Brayden: Beta, metrosexual, SWPL parents, spoiled<\/p>\n Chance: White trash, lots of siblings, stupid, plays sports, aims low<\/p>\n Melvin: Ugly (cute moms don\u2019t name their sons Melvin, the name is so he doesn\u2019t ever think he\u2019s too good for the family- in case he happens to beat the hideous gene)<\/p>\n Noah: Upper middle class, bookish<\/p>\n Jackson: friendly, athletic<\/p>\n Lance: creepy, pseudointellectual, larping parents took him to the Renaissance Fairs too young and made him weird<\/p>\n There are plenty of normal names without obvious connotations like Chris, John, James, etc.<\/p>\n * I look forward to the followup study involving male and female names. When subjects assume the males are physically larger, that will prove rampant sexism.<\/p>\n * I don\u2019t get what\u2019s racist about the position apparently taken by respondents.<\/p>\n 1. It\u2019s obviously true<\/p>\n Ok sure, but we all know that for mentally ill liberals the mere truth is not a defense against racism. but even by that standard this isn\u2019t racist because:<\/p>\n 2. DeShawn is *happy* that he\u2019s respected for not taking shit from people at a bar<\/p>\n And I\u2019m not going to say he\u2019s wrong for feeling this way. DeShawns of the world at least have enough dignity to command a certain type of respect and yes this affects how they\u2019re treated; I\u2019m going to need a good reason to step to DeShawn and berate him in public because I will expect him to throw down when challenged.<\/p>\n But even if you don\u2019t like DeShawn\u2019s culture or attitude of masculinity you at least have to say that *by his own lights* DeShawn is not being treated poorly by this respect of his principles.<\/p>\n * Link<\/a>: \u201cThese are the girls\u2019 names that made the teachers blanch \u2013 some with comments attached: Adrienne (kiss of death \u2013 spiteful, sneaky or both), Alanna, Ashleigh, Britney, Candice, Chantelle (spawn of the devil), Chelsie, Chelseigh, Chloe (nasty, spiteful). Cindy (always a pain in the a**e) Courtney, Cortnee, Cortnie (trouble), Danielle (a nightmare), Jade, Jodie, Jordan (pretty bad for a girl), Kayleigh (a pain), Keeley, Keira (live in fear), Kimberley, Kylie, Leanne, Leigh, Lou-Lou, Mia, Paige, Poppy (hyperactive and not very bright), Stacey, Tyler (lesson disrupter).\u201d<\/p>\n * He got a result he\u2019s not supposed to like, so he says he doesn\u2019t like it and then publishes it, because he\u2019s an academic, and publish or perish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the New York Post: Americans make racist assumptions based on names, study finds By David K. Li October 7, 2015 | 9:42am Americans draw racist conclusions about people they\u2019ve never met just by learning their names, according to researchers … Continue reading
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