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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/world/europe/germany-hamburg-attacker-radicalized.html: “Painful experience also teaches us that we must expect that jihadist ideology will be used as the reason or justification for acts that are perhaps carried out for very different reasons,” Mr. de Maizière said. “The true motive can also lie in the perpetrator’s personality. This is being investigated in Hamburg.”
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I'm well aware that not everyone is offended by the same sign for the same reason. Or even for the reason claiming to be offended by these signs of mine. I've made it just too easy for them being able getting away with this. But this is not the same as saying they won't get away with it.
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In one condition, therefore, the participants knew that the man was gay and in the other they might have privately inferred that he was gay though it wasn't confirmed, but that wasn't known to anyone else (who might have accused them of being prejudiced).
These conditions are especially important for a subset of people who are covertly prejudiced: They're aware that they're prejudiced and ok with it, but don't want others to know. We can identify these people with some well-established questionnaire measures, and we know that they express prejudice only when they're able to get away with it.
As we predicted, these covertly prejudiced people tended to refrain from shocking the man who was confirmed as gay, but delivered extremely high levels of shocks to the man who liked shopping. If they had shocked the first man, people could accuse them of prejudice ("You shocked him because he was gay!"). But if others accused participants of prejudice in the second condition, it could be plausibly denied ("I didn't think he was gay!"). In other words, stereotyping can give people opportunities to express prejudices without fear of reprisal.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/health/gaydar-stereotypes-partner/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
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I'm well aware that not everyone is offended by the same sign for the same reason. Or even for the reason claiming to be offended by these signs of mine. I've made it just too easy for them being able getting away with this. But this is not the same as saying they won't get away with it.
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