Miscegenation topics draw more response from white supremacists than racial superiority claims.

Evidence

Two messages discussed miscegenation (one focused on black–white miscegenation and one on Jewish–white miscegenation), two messages discussed white supremacy (one claimed superiority of whites over blacks and one claimed superiority of whites over Jews), and two messages discussed media control (one alleged Jewish control of the media and one alleged black control of the media). The messages were designed to be prototypic examples of the types of messages that are frequently sent by group members on these three topics, with the notable exception of the black control message, as blacks are portrayed by group members as mindless foot soldiers in the race war rather than clever manipulators. Preliminary examination of the number of views and replies for each message type suggested that the miscegenation messages appeared to generate considerable interest, whereas the white supremacy messages generated little interest. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 991

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Why would miscegenation outpace pure supremacy claims in engagement? Possibly because threat frames mobilize more than positivity frames within such groups.