{"id":245,"date":"2009-01-03T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/245"},"modified":"2009-01-03T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:07:43","slug":"the-zero-sum-logic-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/01\/03\/the-zero-sum-logic-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"the irrational logic of hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every few months, I find myself citing this study: <a href=\"http:\/\/harrisschool.uchicago.edu\/about\/publications\/working-papers\/pdf\/wp_99_02.pdf\">Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution<\/a> by Harvard economist Erzo F.P. Luttmer. <\/p>\n<p>It proves with empirical data that voters have refused valuable government assistance if a group they despise would also receive the same aid. It&#8217;s an incredibly useful, potent finding.<\/p>\n<p>This same logic of hate was expertly parodied by Chappelle&#8217;s Show in its profile of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/videos\/index.jhtml?videoId=24400\">the fictitious Clayton Bigsby<\/a>: a black man who is blind, believes he is white and espouses white supremacy. Upon discovering that he is, indeed, black, Bigsby divorces his white wife because &#8220;she was a nigger lover.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few months, I find myself citing this study: Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution by Harvard economist Erzo F.P. Luttmer. It proves with empirical data that voters have refused valuable government assistance if a group they despise would also receive the same aid. It&#8217;s an incredibly useful, potent finding. This same logic of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}