White survey respondents sold racial neutrality for a thirty-minute queue saving

Evidence

The principle of race neutrality did fi gure somewhat in the white subjects’ decision making: When told that only nonwhite groups would be targeted for profi ling, white respondents expressed an unwillingness to support the explicitly racebased program for a meager tenminute time savings. For a thirtyminute savings, however, the white respondents overcame their moral qualms. They revealed, apparently, their willingness to pay to preserve the principle of race neutrality. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere, 307

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the meta-claim that constitutional rights are meant as ‘our better selves’ protections against wavering — see Kysar’s own use. Also connects to the reader’s democratic-deliberation threads. — connects to: Disaggregated life valuations would embed racial discrimination while denying it — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 304; Vague survey wording can make racial prejudice undetectable in response data
• CANDY: A vivid, self-contained vignette: people trade away anti-racial-profiling principle for a half-hour in a security line.

Broader Connections

• Vague survey wording can make racial prejudice undetectable in response data #corroborates (0.80)