mo4ch:>White Dems dumb down speeches for racial minorities, Yale study shows | Mo4ch News

A linguistic study of speeches by US presidential candidates found that white Democrats tend to use less complex words when speaking to racial minority groups, while Republicans don’t. Undergrad students showed the same tendency.The study, led by Cydney Dupree, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale SOM, focused on the self-presentation of white people when interacting with racial minorities like blacks or Latinos and how it is affected by the white individuals’ social conservatism or liberalism.The authors posited that white liberals would tend to speak to minorities in a somewhat patronizing way, playing to the stereotype that people of color are less competent than whites, in an attempt to downplay their status and better connect with their audience, while white conservatives would not.Also on rt.comTolkien was ‘racist’ to orcs?! Sci-fi author echoes dank memes, totally unironicallyThey started by analyzing 74 speeches by white male Democrat and Republican president…