{"id":1664,"date":"2009-07-15T01:26:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T06:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2009-07-15T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T06:26:48","slug":"learned-today-college-kids-all-racist-in-their-own-special-ways-race-gawker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/learned-today-college-kids-all-racist-in-their-own-special-ways-race-gawker\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned Today : College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways &#8211; Race &#8211; Gawker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"College Kids\" rel=\"imdb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0745603\/\">College Kids<\/a> All Racist In Their Own Special Ways<br \/>\nBy Hamilton Nolan, 12:12 PM on Wed Jul 8 2009, 30,144 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Yahoo! Slurp\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yahoo%21_Slurp\">Slurp<\/a>)<br \/>\nCopy this whole post to another site<br \/>\nSlurp cancel<br \/>\nsending request<br \/>\nCollege: where drunk kids are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Guinea pig\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinea_pig\">guinea pigs<\/a> for social science. The funnest college-kid studies involve race, because they make everyone uncomfortable! Now comes a new study of interracial college <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Roommate\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roommate\">roommates<\/a> that proves we&#8217;re all terrible. A racial breakdown:<br \/>\nIf You Are White:<br \/>\n* Your black roommate makes you uncomfortable.<br \/>\n* You make your black roommate uncomfortable.<br \/>\n* You are far more likely to &#8220;break up&#8221; with your roommate if they&#8217;re not white.<br \/>\n* You will not be affected academically by your roommate&#8217;s race, because you care only about your own kind.<br \/>\nIf You Are Black:<br \/>\n* You will do better academically if you have a white roommate, maybe in an effort to overcome your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inferiority complex\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inferiority_complex\">inferiority complex<\/a>.<br \/>\n* Or maybe because you just don&#8217;t like them and can get some work done.<br \/>\n* If you have a white roommate, your own &#8220;positive emotions&#8221; will decline.<br \/>\nIf You Are <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Race and ethnicity in the United States Census\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census\">Asian<\/a>:<br \/>\n* Not only are you more <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Racism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racism\">racist<\/a> than any other group, you also make those around you more racist. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Science\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Science\">Scientific<\/a> fact!<br \/>\nIf You Are of a Race Other Than These:<br \/>\n* You are not as interesting to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social sciences\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_sciences\">social scientists<\/a>.<br \/>\nJerks, every last one of us!<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5310110\/college-kids-all-racist-in-their-own-special-ways\">College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways &#8211; Race &#8211; Gawker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/af66d3ae-196a-4273-a153-5ba67cec9185\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways By Hamilton Nolan, 12:12 PM on Wed Jul 8 2009, 30,144 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Slurp cancel sending request College: where drunk kids are guinea pigs for social science. The funnest college-kid studies involve race, because they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/15\/learned-today-college-kids-all-racist-in-their-own-special-ways-race-gawker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned Today : College Kids All Racist In Their Own Special Ways &#8211; Race &#8211; Gawker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[176,1163,1164,1165,1168,1356,1455,1512],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today","tag-anti-racism","tag-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-states-census","tag-race-and-racism","tag-race-ethnic-religious-relations","tag-racism","tag-supremacy-and-separatism","tag-united-states","tag-white"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}