Again, the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) spreads demagoguery! E.g. Black spelled with a capital B and lowercase w for white people!
Even the scientific journal, i.e. American Political Science Review (APSR), in this case repeated this ideological capital B for black Americans and the implied racism!
These ideologically biased authors of this study are affiliated with Columbia University! It appears, these scientists did not even investigate the reverse hypothesis. Very sloppy! A case of junk science!
Does the AAAS and these two authors really not know that some black Americans have harbored similar prejudices against white Americans!
"Random assignment to US military service under the Vietnam Draft Lotteries led white men to express more positive attitudes toward Black people. Green and Hyman-Metzger drew upon General Social Survey data from 1978 to 2021 that were augmented to reflect draft status. Being drafted into service, and thus into prolonged, cooperative, interracial contact, led white men years later to express more support for policies intended to benefit Black people compared with men who were in the lottery but did not ultimately serve. Being drafted did not appear to affect broader political identities and preferences."
From the abstract:
"The Vietnam Draft Lotteries, which randomly assigned men to military service, enable researchers to assess the long-term effects of interracial contact on racial attitudes. Using a new draft status indicator for respondents to the General Social Surveys 1978–2021, we show that white men who were selected for the draft subsequently expressed less negative attitudes toward Black people and toward policies designed to help them. These effects are apparent only for cohorts that were actually drafted into service, suggesting that interracial contact during military service led to attitude change. These findings have important implications for theories of political socialization and prejudice reduction."
From the study (I added the highlighting of the demagoguery):
"... Focusing on white male respondents to the GSS this research note examines the effects of draft lottery status on three sets of outcomes.
The first is the extent to which respondents express negative attitudes toward Black people or an aversion to interracial contact.
The second includes attitudes about race-related policies, such as whether interracial marriage should be illegal. Because of the growing connection between racial attitudes and party identification after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act ...
Conclusion ...
The GSS results show an intriguing pattern: in the years where draft status strongly affected actual military service, white men whose birth dates were randomly selected for the draft were less likely to express negative attitudes about Black people or policies that assist them. ..."
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