Nice job of missing the point. I'm saying that's the leftist position, not mine
I got that when I read your post. I mean, I got that _you_ think that, because you seem very invested in results that show liberals are just as racist as you are, therefore racism is okay.
What I don't see is being able to draw that conclusion from the behavior of liberals.
I think what you miss is the point someone brought up above is that if the measures were studied among particular groups, like black voters in a certain area, rather than black peers, for example, then you might be seeing someone's bias (prejudice?) that systemic racism has caused a difference in educational opportunities, though that does not translate at all to liberals feeling that black people are inferior. That part is your projection.
In view of the results of those studies, I think there is room to say that Loren P made a valid point.
What would be good would be more data to back up saying (as he put it)
"an awful lot of the liberal ideas about racial issues actually amount to saying we should ignore the inferiority of minorities rather than saying they are equal".
Because that is going much further than saying that to some extent, even liberals may unconsciously be applying racial bias, prejudice and stereotyping, which I would imagine is true of many liberals, including myself. I think nearly everyone whoever lived does this sort of thing one way or another. That doesn't make it a good thing of course. It's not a good thing.
Admitting it is not entirely unlike unpacking one's invisible privileges generally, in relation to all sorts of things. I wonder what a set of studies on how men talk to women might throw up (and vice versa).
I absolutely agree that liberal white people continue to harbor biases that are hidden even from ourselves. And being "open minded," becomes a condition of being willing to find them and root them out, even though that may take a very long time. While not being open-minded will prevent any progress at all.
We all code switch. As an engineer I dumb down my descriptions of technical stuff when I am talking to non-technical people. Not because I think they are inferior, but because conversing with me doesn't need to be vocabulary lesson and I recognize they occupy a different jargon landscape.