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Originally Posted by Jinn
The "prove it" responses are legitimate, particularly when the sociological research is strongly against your position.
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Yeah, I don't mean to jump on ya, dawg... but Jinn is right. For my part, I lived and breathed this stuff throughout my graduate coursework in the social sciences (and in the field doing research), so it's kind of hard to just fuggeddaboudit in a casual discussion on the topic.
I'm also interested in the source of people's opinions in general, especially when they are so different from my own. Namely, what leads people, on a gut level, to believe that there is no longer a problem with race in this country? And how can people have such polar opposite views on a subject that has been so widely researched and documented?