Ivy League Study Finds Liberals ‘Patronize’ Minorities, Conservatives Don’t

From The Daily Signal. (Dec. 12):

A study by Princeton and Yale researchers has found that white liberals act in “patronizing” ways toward blacks and other minorities, while white conservatives do not.

White Democratic presidential candidates and self-identified liberals are more likely to downplay their own competence when speaking to minorities, using fewer words that emphasize competence and more words that show warmth, according to the report titled “Self-Presentation in Interracial Settings: The Competence Downshift by White Liberals.”

In contrast, the study found that white conservatives do not address white and minority audiences in a significantly different fashion.

Cydney Dupree, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management who worked on the study alongside Princeton co-author Susan Fiske, said she was surprised by the findings.  [read more]

It’s nice to see that science has finally caught up to what most conservatives see in the Left.

The Left is patronizing because they think they are better than everyone else—they’re elitists. While conservatives see everyone equally because everyone (including themselves) have fallen from grace.