Batya Ungar-Sargon: 2018 Yale Study that Found that White Liberals Dumb Down Their Vocabulary When Talking to People of Color Started My ‘Unwokening’

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UNGAR-SARGON: "In 2018, I had come across a study that was so disturbing to my worldview, that I remember putting it in a drawer and saying, I am not ready to deal with what this means. And in 2019, that no longer became available to me. And let me tell you a little bit about this study. The study was a 2018 Yale study. And it found that there is a difference between how white liberals and white conservatives talk to blacks and Hispanics. And here's the difference between how white liberals and white conservatives talk to people of color. White liberals dumb down their vocabulary when they encounter a person who has darker skin than them.”