lately I've been interested in the conservative obsession with hating starbucks and found this

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I wish my life was so good that I could spare the energy to pick the dumbest, pettiest bullshit like this to be upset about.

    • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      I'm fairly certain the lifes of people losing their shit about this are super fucking miserable and they mostly go pronounjak-rage over a print on a seasonal paper cup so they do not have to confront their actual problems.

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          7 months ago

          Here’s footage of the research by the way https://youtu.be/Vlk45K0wgfU

          There was also a research article that found white people generally distrust all minorities while trusting Asian men the most, but only if the Asian men are fat.

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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          7 months ago

          That's interesting. What's that from? I feel like I'd heard that it didn't take much to develop empathy and overcome racist attitudes just by basically exposing people to the groups they fear more often in everyday life l, though I have no source on that. I wonder if physiological responses like those can be changed in the right conditions or if it'll always be that way.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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            7 months ago

            Some people I know have by now spent about 30 years living in the same neighbourhoods as Muslim, African etc immigrants, they see them everywhere all the time and they're certainly not getting any less racist

            Maybe it makes sense in America where a lot of white people live on like a corn field in the middle of nowhere or something, but Europeans are massively racist and keep voting for more and more fascist politicians and they live side by side with immigrants in major cities