#society
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought
# Racism
#to-digest
[[Localism]]
>Viewing a black individual evokes less of an N200 waveform than does seeing someone white. The greater the P200/N200 ratio (i.e., the greater the ratio of I’m-feeling-threatened to Hold-on-a-sec), the greater the likelihood of shooting an unarmed black individual.
>~ [[Robert Sapolsky - Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky|Robert Sapolsky]]
>By one hundred milliseconds, brain function already differs in two depressing ways, depending on the race of the face (as shown with neuroimaging). First, in a widely replicated finding, the amygdala activates. Moreover, the more racist someone is in an implicit test of race bias (stay tuned), the more activation there is
>~ [[Robert Sapolsky - Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky|Robert Sapolsky]]