DR JOHN J. RAY One of the contributors to Wilson's Psychology of Conservatism is Dr John J. Ray, lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Australia. During 1977 and 1978 Ray however was on sabbatical leave at the Institute of Psychiatry, where no doubt he found the intellectual atmosphere congenial to his research. Ray himself holds some forthright views on racism. Well might Ray defend racism. He does not mince his words when he writes about Australian Aborigines.
White backlash is then reasonable.
Ray has conducted a number of academic surveys in order to bolster his prejudices. Therefore Ray designed a survey to measure white Australians' attitudes towards Aborigines, comparing those who lived near Aborigines with those who lived further away. Thus, even in the face of negative results, Ray clings to what he calls his 'rational prejudice model'. Ray's prejudices do not just relate to Aborigines. Ray obviously has sympathy with the racists and anti-Semites.