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Now I realise that this is similar to what Jo Henrich has argued more generally (but not on racism, afaik).
People’s mental models and cognitive processes shape how they interpret new information
And these vary enormously all over the world.
“Everyone is responsible for their own actions” is core to Evangelical thought
Back in 1996, only 21% of white evangelicals recognised ‘discrimination’
Why are white evangelicals blind to structural discrimination?
Revering free will & individual responsibility, they are blind to discrimination.
They believe that racial inequalities stem from black people’s lack of effort, poor values & self-interested fabrication
Superb book
When black WWI soldiers were poorly treated, they underperformed , and were seen as ineffective.
When black WWI soldiers were attached to French divisions, they were successful & were awarded the “Croix de Guerre”!
(Dalfiume, 1969 “Desegregation of the US Armed Forces). @histodons
Feminist activism & paid work in the public sphere 👉 gender equality.
Rising FLFP, secularism & activism in LatAm has enabled convergence with Europe!
Totalitarian communism in 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳 suffocated feminist dissent
Patriarchy persists in MENA due to religious authoritarianism.
Map by Plamen Akaliyski
White solidarity did not exist before the Civil War
Slave-owners hired lawyers to defend enslaved men accused of raping white women. They sought to protect their property, claimed their innocence and pushed for leniency. Courts often obliged with very light sentences.
Poor white southern women were interrogated and disbelieved
It’s only when Southern elites feared that black & white Americans might forge solidarity - that they manufactured demonising myths of black male rapists
Men still comprise more than 75% of the top 1% of earners - in the US, France, Spain and Brazil.
But this gap has closed considerably, within the past four decades.
What’s Spain’s feminist secret?
Why do women comprise a larger share of top earners in Spain, compared to the USA? What’s driven this change?
[Loyal followers know that I have a long-standing fascination with rapid social change in Spain]
Why do women earn less of total labour income?
In MENA, there is large gender gap in both pay and employment.
In SSA and North America, there are large gender gaps in pay.
In Russia, women approximate men in both pay and employment.
Net, there has been barely NO change in men and women’s shares of GLOBAL labour income.
(This must reflect Chinese women’s fall in total labour income)
