Dry-Bird-2993

Dry-Bird-2993 t1_iy0kkpt wrote

Reply to Obesity Is Now the Top Modifiable Dementia Risk Factor in the US (July 2022) by True_Garen

So here's a science based prediction for you. Probably a good 10 or 20 years from now scientists will find that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia are all directly linked to dementia. Not the victims of those things. But those who believe in them. My prediction is that scientists will of course figure out there's a link. Study it further. And find that it is the top modifiable dementia risk factor ever found. It having direct connections to narcissism and how a person negatively modified their own minds toward it. While finding that at any time if a person works towards not being narcissistic the negative effects back off at the same strength.

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Dry-Bird-2993 t1_iuq2dyq wrote

Reply to comment by leethedude2 in The polarization of politics and public opinion and their effects on racial inequality in COVID mortality: evidence suggests that shrinking gap in US COVID-19 racial death disparities driven by political division and increasing total deaths among Whites rather than decreasing deaths among Blacks by Dizzy_Slip

Ironically...(because of how people think of black people and white people generally) it's a political cause for more white people dying than before. Or at least that's how it's suggested. Republicans tell white people not to worry about covid-19. That it isn't real. And more white people die form it. Or to put it easier. Identity politics.

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Dry-Bird-2993 t1_isagtv6 wrote

Reply to New study shows newspaper images from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 continued patterns of presenting people of color as victims and white people as rescuers bringing order back to the chaos, this may not have been conscious or ill-intentioned decisions, but reflect patterns in journalism and cultural by giuliomagnifico

Here's an interesting thought. When japan goes through disasters. The people most negatively effected/affected are japanese. Mexico? Mexicans. Africa? Africans. It's always very odd that in a majority white country. The people seen to need the most help most often whenever any disaster happens. Isn't white people. You can run down the list. Hurricanes, covid-19, housing crisis, drugs addiction, etc. You name it. Doesn't matter what it is. The people who appear to need the most help no matter what problem it is...in a majority white country....aren't white people.

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Why is it interesting? Well, because it means one of two things. Either america curb stomps people of color so much and so often that people of color always take the brunt of the damage anytime anything happens. Or. America is so biased that it wants to present people of color as having been curb stomped by america so much that it doesn't matter the disaster people of color are presented as taking the brunt of it. So either america has actually targeted people of color so much and for so long (even talking current events) that it's almost like the entire country hates us. Or the vast majority of white people in america get off from seeing people of color be painted as the most needy groups of people in america.

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Meaning either way. Not only is it very bad. But it means racism is still a pillar of america.

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