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Gene Demby @GeeDee215
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So.

A lot of public opinion researchers want to measure/control for the amount of racism/bigotry in the responses they get and ho it correlates with how respondents answer other questions. But you can't just ask people "are you racist?" because they will obviously say no.
So you have to ask them diff Qs as a proxy.

You have to ask them about, say, how they feel about the fact of racial inequality in America — "Do you think this the result of ongoing/historical discrimination or do you think Black ppl need to work harder and make fewer excuses?"
You then ask them a bunch of other Qs — on affirmative action, on policing, etc —- and plot the respondents on a spectrum from “racial liberal” to “racial conservatives.”

In polls, Republicans unsurprisingly evince a high degree of “racial conservatism.”
There’s a good convo abt all this on @chrislhayes Why Is This Happening? podcast from two weeks ago:
But the important thing is that bigotry/racial animus is a *quantifiable* phenomenon, and it shows up in the work of @PRRIpoll and @DrPhilGoff and others.
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