Framed messaging can shift initial opposition to reparations
Evidence
Based on the results of focus group testing that I commissioned, I demonstrate that the right kind of messaging can change the hearts and minds of those initially opposed to reparations. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 51
Categorization
- QUESTION: What specific framing worked in the focus-group testing, and does the effect survive real political tradeoffs?
- SEED: A method piece on empirically pre-testing moral arguments before rolling them out politically.
- XREF: connects to: Financial restitution demands backfire while apology demands succeed in eliciting reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 734; A presidential commission with televised hearings can build the public case for reparations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 51; Messaging that traces post-slavery government discrimination shifts public opinion toward reparations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 504 (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Financial restitution demands backfire while apology demands succeed in eliciting reparations — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 734; A presidential commission with televised hearings can build the public case for reparations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 51; Messaging that traces post-slavery government discrimination shifts public opinion toward reparations — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 504 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Messaging that traces post-slavery government discrimination shifts public opinion toward reparations
#expands(0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 504