A recent study suggests that, in certain countries, people censor information that unfavorably portrays low-status groups (women, blacks, Muslims) more than identical information that unfavorably portrays high-status groups (men, whites, Christians).
The study was carried out with four samples from three countries (adults from the United States and three university-age samples from the United States, United Kingdom and Hungary) and three group difference domains.
Discrimination
These "double standards" in censorship preferences were most pronounced among political liberals , although moderates and conservatives (especially college-age moderates and conservatives) showed similar (though weaker and less consistent) patterns.
These results are consistent with a growing body of work that challenges the conventional wisdom that people have biases and double standards that harm low-status groups and reinforce existing hierarchies. In modern Western societies, at least in recent years, the opposite could be the case .
In modern Western societies, at least in recent years, group-based biases in evaluations of information appear to be designed to help low-status groups and eliminate or possibly even reverse existing hierarchies.
The problem is that perhaps we decompensate other groups or we have already done so and we are still not aware of it: that is, we have begun to discriminate against groups that we have popularly considered that they are not discriminated against .
For that reason, we have to put aside our hunches and base our discriminations on the most objective data possible, and also on statistics. And remember, by fire, the following words as if they were a directive from Robocop :
