A researcher from 顿耻办别鈥檚 Fuqua School of Business has helped analyze a series of studies and publish a on the prevalence of racial slurs used in the workplace. There鈥檚 a growing body of online humor that has been pegged 鈥渇riendly prejudice.鈥� You can hear it in this popular video titled 鈥�
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顿耻办别鈥檚 worked with professors from London Business School, Western New England University and McGill University in Canada to write the paper Rosette says, racial slurs have nothing to do with being cool or friendly at work when white men are the most likely to use slurs and are the least likely to report it.
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鈥淪o specifically, socially dominant groups may not speak out because it is to their benefit to maintain the social inequality that racial slurs actually insight,鈥� says Rosette. "People who had a high social dominance orientation, which is a high preference for inequality or they value inequality more than those people, were more likely to remain silent."
A part of the study also included a behavioral experiment which included black and white college students who were purposefully exposed to racial slurs. Most of them were employed. The article has been published online in the journal .
