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Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies
Molly McHugh (3774987) writes with an intriguing use of VR technology: "It's as simple as making a light-skinned person feel connected to a virtual, darker skinned self—a thought experiment pretty much impossible without the immersive potency of VR. The effect is achieved by outfitting participants in VR headsets with built-in head-tracking and motion capture capabilities that sync actual movement to virtual experience." From the article: Evolving from cruder methods, VR is a natural extension of research examining the ways that people think differently when made to feel like they are part of a meaningfully different social group, known as an outgroup.
... What’s most exciting about this channel of research is that it gets at the kind of complex, subtle prejudices that most people can’t even articulate if asked directly.
Seems rather biased to think that only white people can have racial biases.
And having a black ( she isn't from africa) spouse, and therefore darker skinned children has proven the opposite for me. They get treated fine by police. Then again they go to school, don't rob and assault convenience store clerks, and yet have to be shot. But Im sure their time is just coming right? Couldn't be that actions have consequences in this life right? Its all racism....
I am pretty damned tired of being presumed a racist because of the pallor of my skin.
I'm fucking sick and tired of this incessant cry of racism every time something goes wrong for minorities.
And I'm really fucking sick and tired of this whole racism issue being treated like some kind of thing you have to get fully on board with, show you care, say the right things, etc or you are somehow supporting racism. Progressives shit a brick when people started wearing American Flags on their lapels to "show" their patriotism. But they have no problem brow beating people into participating in shit to "voice their opposition" to racism.
And I am absolutely, positively, fucking sick and tired of morons using terms like "feel connected", "subtle prejudices", "meaningfully different social group". Gawd! Fuck you, you stupid metro-sexual assholes.
Fuck you. I'm not a racist, but I'm not wearing your damned ribbons or signing up for you dumbass sensitivity classes or anything else. I treat everybody with respect and expect the same in return.
Are you putting this forth as evidence you're an expert on racism? Really?
That's kind of like me saying "I know the struggles of blacks, because I own a Public Enemy album".
Seriously, WTF??? What the hell does playing a video game have to do with anything?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
white people in black bodies don't commit as much crime...
I'd bet that they commit just as much crime as black people of similar social culture and class.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Imaginary reality to "prove" imaginary racism. How fitting...
Hint: it ain't the skin-color. If "whitey" really were racist, Asians would've suffered from it too. But they are doing rather well. So well, in fact, that schools and colleges alike deduct points from applicants, who identify themselves as "Asians".
The most likely explanation is single-parenthood rate: children growing up with only a mother (which is still the overwhelming majority of single-"parent" households) are much likelier to grow up with problems live sucky lives — all human civilizations knew this and frowned upon unwed mothers. Not because "sex is a sin", as is the common Illiberal's strawman, but because bringing a child into this world without a loving father is a sin... Heck, we know it too!
For some reason, currently 67% of Black kids grow up in such families — compared with merely 17% of Asians and 25% of Whites... But only the KKKonservative Libertarians connect the dots.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
It's one of those fun things in life: you get a well-raised, well-educated black man, and he's called all sorts of names by black people and white people alike. You get a poorly-educated, poorly-raised black man, and while we arrest him and throw him in jail for the crimes he inevitably (might have) committed, he's socially accepted.
Figure this problem out and there may be a lot less dumb on planet earth.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see what happens if the residents of Gaza were turned into civilized people who were industrious and turned Gaza into an economically prosperous beachfront resort and started winning Nobel Prizes, just like regular Israel.
It would be a bit of a change from murdering their own children to dig tunnels underneath their neighbors for the sole purposes of indiscriminately murdering people they've never met.
The Israelites don't have to do that because they have an American backed and supplied military to do that for them.
I know millennials think they are the first generation that is morally superior and have the answers to everything."
Every generation thinks they're superior,
And the previous and next are inferior,
But no matter your exterior,
We have the same interior,
So the Kruger-Dunning Effect bites your posterior.
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"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
So you get a call from the police. Your wife and children are being held hostage, there is a time bomb with a combination lock, they have the bomber, but he won't reveal the code. You get put in the room with bomber and the police leave.
100% of high minded intellectually superior smug ass hats, along with 100% of the common sense rational people, beat the living shit out of the guy to save their wife and children.
Case closed.
Murphy was an optimist