Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved.
Evidence
After reading an antiwelfare message where racial cues were subtly implied, liberals high in racial resentment expressed less support for welfare programs than those who read an excerpt about global warming, while liberals low in racial resentment voiced approximately equivalent support across condition (Figure 1a). In contrast, moderates and conservatives high in racial resentment showed little effect of the implicit racial appeal condition on welfare support relative to the control condition (Figures 1b and 1c, respectively). — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 77
Categorization
- XREF: Directly speaks to the reader’s core question about asymmetric effects across ideology — connects to the broader backfire literature on race-coded persuasion. — connects to: Dog-whistle appeals mobilize racially resentful white liberals, not conservatives — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 11; Implicit racial appeals mobilize resentment among liberals as well as conservatives — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 56; Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 172 (+3 more)
Related
- Implicit racial appeals mobilize resentment among liberals as well as conservatives (similarity 0.95)
- Implicit racial appeals produce an opposite-of-predicted backfire effect among low-resentment moderates. (similarity 0.93)
- Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed. (similarity 0.90)
- Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals. (similarity 0.89)
- Dog-whistle appeals mobilize racially resentful white liberals, not conservatives (similarity 0.88)
- Racially encoded messages backfire among moderates high in racial resentment. (similarity 0.88)
- Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains. (similarity 0.88)
- Explicit and implicit racial cues boost racial resentment equally in whites (similarity 0.88)
- 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 0.87)
- Racial appeals do not generally amplify the effect of racial attitudes on welfare support (similarity 0.87)
- Racial appeals intensify racial-attitude influence on gun attitudes among liberals, not conservatives. (similarity 0.86)
- Implicit racial appeals drive welfare opposition through reduced deservingness perceptions (similarity 0.86)
- Dog-whistle effects may cut opposite ways across ideology (similarity 0.85)
- Implicit racial appeals boosted liberal support for gun control (similarity 0.84)
- Racially resentful white liberals number about ten million and may be decisive voters. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Racially encoded messages backfire among moderates high in racial resentment.
#contradicts(0.88) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 147 - Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains.
#corroborates(0.78) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 172 - Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals.
#expands(0.75) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 182 - Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed.
#qualifies(0.75) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 78