Laws penalizing biased 911 calls may backfire via threat reactions.

Evidence

Furthermore, bills such as this one could also be threatening to callers who believe that they should have a right to call 911 whenever they believe there is imminent danger. To this end this bill might backfire, resulting in even more negative intergroup contact, similar to how messages that promote diversity in organizations are threatening to White individuals (Dover, Major, & Kaiser, 2016). Although to our knowledge there is no empirical work looking at threat generated by such bills, it is likely that the effects could be similar. In fact, soon after the bill was passed, it received criticism for its potential to make “communities less safe” (Lockhart, 2019). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 280

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the diversity-message threat literature cited (Dover, Major, & Kaiser) — and parallels how ‘immodesty’ moral panics or sacrifice-related norms provoke reactance in the reader’s other curated work.