Observers of social media discussions about racial discrimination condemn denial but also adopt it.

ABSTRACT: Sharing experiences with racism (racial discrimination disclosure) has the power to raise awareness of discrimination and spur meaningful conversations about race. Sharing these experiences with racism on social media may prompt a range of responses among users. While previous work investigates how disclosure impacts disclosers and listeners, we extend this research to explore the impact of observing discussions about racial discrimination online-what we call vicarious race talk. In a series of experiments using real social media posts, we show that the initial response to racial discrimination disclosure-whether the response denies or validates the poster's perspective-influences observers' own perceptions and attitudes. Despite observers identifying denial as less supportive than validat

SUBMITTER: Sanchez KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11303685 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature