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<blockquote data-quote="faulkton" data-source="post: 2662351" data-attributes="member: 561910">symbolic racism - while rejecting stereotypes and blatant discrimination, this form of racism involves opposition to any social policy that would enable minorities to escape their disadvantaged position in American society. Symbolic racism appears to be based on a belief, apparently learned in childhood socialization, that blacks are getting unfair advantages that violate basic American norms such as individualism and self-reliance. A key element of this form of prejudice appears to be a denial of the presence of racial inequality in society.For whites, believing in the existence of equal opportunities provides a sense of diminished responsibility for racial inequality. Thus, whites can think of themselves as accepting, unprejudiced people without having to acknowledge that they live and benefit from a society where race makes a huge difference in opportunity. They do this by denying or being unaware of the great inequality in their society, which then they do not have to face. By doing so they can maintain a myth that society is color-blind, and that race not only should not matter, but doesn&#039;t matter. Instead of admitting the inequalities found in American society, they can blame any disadvantage they see minorities suffer on the minorities themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="faulkton, post: 2662351, member: 561910"] symbolic racism - while rejecting stereotypes and blatant discrimination, this form of racism involves opposition to any social policy that would enable minorities to escape their disadvantaged position in American society. Symbolic racism appears to be based on a belief, apparently learned in childhood socialization, that blacks are getting unfair advantages that violate basic American norms such as individualism and self-reliance. A key element of this form of prejudice appears to be a denial of the presence of racial inequality in society. For whites, believing in the existence of equal opportunities provides a sense of diminished responsibility for racial inequality. Thus, whites can think of themselves as accepting, unprejudiced people without having to acknowledge that they live and benefit from a society where race makes a huge difference in opportunity. They do this by denying or being unaware of the great inequality in their society, which then they do not have to face. By doing so they can maintain a myth that society is color-blind, and that race not only should not matter, but doesn't matter. Instead of admitting the inequalities found in American society, they can blame any disadvantage they see minorities suffer on the minorities themselves. [/QUOTE]

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