Can subtle slights cause serious harm? Does it matter if no harm was intended? Are microaggressions in the eye of the beholder? Or are they a way to keep certain groups in their place? This week we’re thinking about Microaggressions.
为什么世界上有这么多仇恨?仇恨在道德上是合理的吗?还是仇恨只会滋生更多的仇恨?仇恨到底是什么?这是我们在本周的节目《我们为什么仇恨》中要解决的一些重大问题。
Social psychology has shown that people tend to generalize on incidents of good behavior for their in-group, but generalize on bad behavior for members of out-groups. This tendency leads to a form of racism I call "naïve" because the racist person has no idea that their minds are operating this way.
大量研究表明，即使自称为非种族主义者，也可能对黑人存在隐性偏见。对于如何看待这种“内隐”现象的本质，人们没有多少共识，但有一种可能性是，我们的种族偏见最好被理解为一种感知习惯。
As I write this, the world is in the path of a mounting pandemic. People are frightened. They should be. The novel coronavirus is dangerous. It can and does kill. But its biologically menacing character is just one part of the threat that it poses. The virus also presents us with a social threat.