Standard racism measures strip away prejudice’s rhetorical complexity
Evidence
Whenever racism is measured through implicit or explicit measures, it is stripped of its rhetorical, ideological and societal intricacies. In this chapter I want to highlight how racism operates in argumentative spaces of ideology, and how (racist) attitudes, views, positions, etc., possess marked rhetorical complexity — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 472
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the critique of implicit measures and quantitative attitude research in social psychology — mirrors debates in other domains where standardized measurement trades away context. — connects to: Eurocentric racism often hides within democratic rhetoric and abstract claims rather than open bigotry
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- Symbolic racism differs from traditional prejudice only in measurement, not theory (similarity 0.82)
- Eurocentric racism often hides within democratic rhetoric and abstract claims rather than open bigotry (similarity 0.81)
- Understanding racism requires abandoning commonsense language for a new conceptual framework. (similarity 0.80)
- Critical analysis seeks contradictions between decency declarations and actual treatment (similarity 0.80)
- Racism’s expressions across Europe resist unified characterization (similarity 0.80)
- Prejudice theory reduced structural racism to interpersonal attitudes measured by scales (similarity 0.80)
- Discriminatory acts rest on shared mental representations even when unintentional (similarity 0.80)
- Racism theories divide into ideology-focused and structural-inequality approaches (similarity 0.80)
- Prejudice theory flattened racism into individual attitudes, erasing structural dimensions (similarity 0.80)
- Subtle bias alone cannot explain racism’s societal persistence (similarity 0.79)
- Prejudice is public harm to esteem, not merely private attitude (similarity 0.79)
- Old and modern racism differ mainly in post hoc justification, not in kind. (similarity 0.79)
- Symbolic racism research standardizes measures around four or five recurring themes. (similarity 0.79)
- Theories of racism must treat discourse as cognition, not just practice (similarity 0.79)