Racially encoded messages backfire among moderates high in racial resentment.

Evidence

Moderates high in racial resentment, on the other hand, show sharply decreased support for gun control after reading the implicit racial appeal (Figure 2b), while conservatives show approximately equal support across conditions (Figure 2c). Thus, the significant interaction between conservatism, racial resentment, and the implicit racial appeal condition does not appear to represent a dog-whistle effect but rather a difference between conservatives showing no effect of condition and moderates showing an opposite of predicted effect. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 147

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the user’s question about whether threat-hardened beliefs backfire under correction — supports the asymmetric-backfire reading across ideology. — connects to: Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 77; Implicit racial appeals produce an opposite-of-predicted backfire effect among low-resentment moderates. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 79; Revealing the racial subtext of coded messages makes many Whites repudiate them. (+3 more)

Related

• Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved. (similarity 0.88)
• Implicit racial appeals produce an opposite-of-predicted backfire effect among low-resentment moderates. (similarity 0.87)
• Dog-whistle appeals mobilize racially resentful white liberals, not conservatives (similarity 0.85)
• Implicit racial appeals boosted liberal support for gun control (similarity 0.85)
• Racial appeals intensify racial-attitude influence on gun attitudes among liberals, not conservatives. (similarity 0.84)
• Implicit racial appeals mobilize resentment among liberals as well as conservatives (similarity 0.84)
• Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals. (similarity 0.83)
• Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains. (similarity 0.83)
• Explicit and implicit racial cues boost racial resentment equally in whites (similarity 0.83)
• Gun control is racialized such that racial resentment decreases support for it. (similarity 0.82)
• Dog-whistle effects may cut opposite ways across ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer — Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle? Experimental Evidence That Racial Resentment and Political Ideology Condition Responses to Racially Encoded Messages (similarity 0.81)
• Exposing the racist subtext of coded appeals can make Whites repudiate them (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Exposing the racial subtext of coded messages switches White voters against them. #corroborates (0.90)
• Exposing the racist subtext of coded appeals can make Whites repudiate them #corroborates (0.90) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2190
• Revealing the racial subtext of coded messages makes many Whites repudiate them. #corroborates (0.85)
• Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains. #contradicts (0.75) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 172