I said this earlier this afternoon on another thread in response to someone commenting that racists were dim:
dreaming, I do think its a bit of an assumption to say that racists are too dim to appreciate logic.
The worst racists in history have been the ones with the intelligence to actually use logic and science to try and back up what they believe. (Trying not to invoke Godwin's Law here)
In my experience, racists are more likely simply not to have been exposed to challenges put to them in a way that they don't find threatening and aren't directly confrontational. People tend to be less open to ideas, if they feel they are forced on them or they feel that it takes something away from them. They also tend to go along with everyone else they are around rather than question things themselves without others to also support those questions.
People are by their nature selfish, and often look to others for failings in their life. People look for targets, without logic and then build the logic around it, until it becomes 'fact'. The easy target is the one that everyone else in your community blames and its difficult to break that cycle. It takes time and is difficult because an attack on that idea becomes an attack on that community too.
And clipped comes out with these two gems^:
I'm not being difficult at all Red I have stated what I can see not about ratios concerning other countries. My livelihood has gone down the pan due to immigration and so have many other working class friends of mine.
This is what I have witnessed, I don't need to look at charts or statistics.
Blinding me with statistics is not going to change what I see with my own eyes.
Followed by:
I also don't give a gnats arse about the good of global economy, I care about putting food on the table and clothing on the back of my child.
I rest my case.