The rest of us. .... Not so much.

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[–] [S] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah internalized racism research has found that's pretty much how it works.

People will accept bigotry against their own group and even promote it , a lot, but they distance themselves by assuring themselves that they aren't like "those ones".

They are better. They follow the right rules.

The specific phenomena is called cognitive dissonance and the distortion that comes along with two competing beliefs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

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