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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Mea cuulpa.
But, my point still stands. Where did the view that "black girls are obnoxious" (be that some, most or all) come from? Observed behavior and conditioning. Yet, we're told to ignore that. We're wrong. What we see...is not so. The fault must belong to ourselves for seeing what we see. And to acknowledge it? Absolutely reprehensible.
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It may be that people base their judgments of the frequency of a characteristic in a group on the ease to which it comes to mind (a la
the availability heuristic). Obnoxious black women are more noticeable than the many non-obnoxious black women. Consequently, people may base their estimates of the frequency of that characteristic on the ease to which it comes to mind rather than it's actual base rate in the population.