From the article:
In the first scenario, the white person did not comment afterwards. In the “moderate” case, the white person said, “Typical, I hate it when black people do that,” after the black person left the room. In the “extreme” case, the white person remarked, “Clumsy n****r.”
“Even using that most extreme comment didn’t lead people to be particularly upset,” said co-author Elizabeth Dunn, assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Like, seriously? Who are these people? My personal thought balloon in the “moderate” case (and probably yours too) would probably be something like “well F you too, you racist assclown!” But it gets better…
Immediately afterwards, the participants were asked to choose either the black person or the white person as a partner for an anagram test. More than half of experiencers chose the white partner — regardless of the severity of the comment that person made earlier.
I would personally regard someone who I knew only by the use of the “n-word” as a racist boor, and possibly dangerous, but apparently other people wouldn’t have that problem… *sigh*
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