So far as I can tell “racial conspiracy theories” is a term this study made up, In order to be able to address their own premise. It’s it’s hard to look at this and not consider it gaslighting.
Majorities say the criminal justice, political and economic systems were designed to hold Black people back
Alternate headline: black people aware of American history.
What kind of gaslighting nonsense must the rest of the article be when it STARTS by denying what’s obvious to anyone paying attention?? 🤦
I was expecting some “vaccines cause autism” shit but this is just well documented history.
Gaslighting at its finest. Theories than can be tested and proven get a capital T, in science. This shit is demonstrable fact.
While psychologists say belief in conspiracy theories is often linked to paranoia or other mental health issues, the racial conspiracies that Black people believe are rooted in factual acts of intentional or negligent harm.
Well-documented examples include the surveillance of political leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., malpractice in medical research in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the massacre of Black people and destruction of their communities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921.
These historic events (and others described in later chapters of this report) provide the context for some Black Americans’ belief in racial conspiracy theories.
This paper speaking out both sides of it’s mouth for this one. “Black belief that the justice system is designed to hold them back is rooted in factual events… that cause them to believe some kooky conspiracy theories like the justice system has a racist bias!”
i think they’re differentiating between “created for that purpose originally” and “had been known to do/be”.
but even then, seems like a flawed and pointless distinction. the oldest proto police departments in America definitely included “wrangling slaves” and “making sure those free blacks don’t get too uppity” in their founding ideas.
A new analysis suggests that many Black Americans believe the racial bias in U.S. institutions is not merely a matter of passive negligence; it is the result of intentional design.
Believing that white supremacism could be anything other than *intentional design" is peak fucking white liberalism.