Race dominates intergroup positivity and negativity in Stormfront discourse

Evidence

There was a higher percentage of in-group positivity and a lower percentage of out-group negativity and racial slurs in this sample than in Study 1 (see Table 9.4). … However, when the targets were race-based, there was a significant difference between in-group positivity and out-group negativity, such that out-group negativity toward minorities occurred more often than positivity toward whites, χ2(1) = 12.47, p < .001. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1053 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Allport missed some things, however. Perhaps the most important new insight is that many emotions, not only hatred, are involved in intergroup relations. Moreover, these differentiated emotions have distinct causes and effects. Allport’s model focused on hatred and considered negative emotions to be largely interchangeable, driven by a single inner “pool” of frustration that seeks an expression, even against a displaced target. However, current thinking on emotion distinguishes anger from fear, disgust, contempt, guilt, and other possibilities, as distinct emotions with different determinants (people’s appraisals of intergroup situations) and different effects (action tendencies). The current focus on the antecedents and consequences of differentiated emotional reactions provides predictive power beyond Allport’s more narrow focus on hatred. Recent work even demonstrates that prejudice can involve subjectively positive emotions; as noted earlier, research on the Stereotype Content Model shows that women, the elderly, and the handicapped often elicit sympathetic reactions that coexist with stereotypes of these groups’ incompetence (Fiske et al., 2002). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2282 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Out-group negativity toward minorities exceeds in-group positivity toward whites in online race discourse. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1053; Distinct emotions rather than a single pool of hatred drive intergroup prejudice — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2282; Racist discourse tends to favor the ingroup and derogate the outgroup — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1062 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Out-group negativity toward minorities exceeds in-group positivity toward whites in online race discourse. #corroborates (0.95) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1053
• Distinct emotions rather than a single pool of hatred drive intergroup prejudice #complicates (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2282