A new poll, released by the Public Religion Research Institute, confirms what liberals have known all along: white people wear their victimhood like a badge of honor. It also showed that there are some other significant differences between Republicans and Democrats.
The poll showed that nearly half of Republicans believe that there is “a lot” of discrimination against white people and Evangelical Christians, while there is less discrimination against black people. Even fewer Republicans believe that women or atheists experience discrimination.
Even beyond that, by 3 to 1, Republicans feel that discrimination against white people is as bad as it is among minorities.
Views about reverse discrimination are also highly politically polarized. Roughly two-thirds of Republicans (64%) and Tea Party members (68%) agree that, today, discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against other groups. In contrast, fewer than half (45%) of independents and only about three in ten (28%) Democrats agree that discrimination against whites is as big a problem today as discrimination against blacks and other minorities. Seventy-one percent of Democrats disagree.
Not coincidentally, Republicans are also stuck in the past, from during a time when it was socially acceptable to discriminate against minorities.
The extent to which Americans express pessimism about the future varies widely by race, social class, religious af liation, and political af liation. Six in ten (60%) black Americans and a majori- ty (56%) of Hispanic Americans say that America’s best days are still to come, while fewer than half (47%) of white Americans agree. A majority (52%) of white Ameri- cans say America’s best days are behind us. There are substantial differences of opinion among whites by social class. Only about four in ten (42%) white working-class Americans say that America’s best days are still to come, compared to 56% who say they are in the past. Conversely, a majority (53%) of white college-educated Americans see America’s best days ahead of us.
Republicans, as usual, are short of facts. Discrimination is still a problem in this country, but it’s not toward white Christians. As the Huffington Post points out:
Affirmative action does not favor people of color over whites, but ensures that they are considered equally. Even now, white college students are 40% more likely to get private scholarships than minorities, and although 62% of college students in America are white, these students receive 69% of all private scholarships. Someone with a “white sounding” name is 50% more likely to get a job call back than a person with an “ethnic” sounding name. Affirmative action doesn’t take anything away from anyone. It levels the playing field.
Even more to the point, even Republicans would have to admit that it would be better to be pulled over as a white person than as a minority, right? Okay, maybe not. Denial is strong in that party.
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You know, I can honestly say that the only time someone’s made a comment based on my skin colour it wasn’t racism.
Wonder how many minorities can say that.
This goes along with the delusion displayed by most Tea people.
Oh yes, and just what “delusion” might that be? The fact that the 20% of Americans that self-identify as belonging to the Tea Party are actually wealthier and better educated than the general public? Oh wait, that’s not a delusion, that’s reality.
You’re discriminating against them right now, don’t you realize that?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Gonna need a link to that masterful piece of imagination. Too funny.
Ok, here you go. Not that actual evidence ever sways you libturds from your erroneous thinking.
Members of the tea party appear to be not only wealthier and better educated than the general public, but also more scientifically literate.
http://www.nytimes.Com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?_r=0
http://www.culturalcognition.Net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-
education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html?
lastPage=true&postSubmitted=true
Dan Kahan, the Yale professor who carried out the study from the second link, said the following: I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension. But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party. All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t watch Fox News very often — and reading the “paper” (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused internet sites like Huffington Post & Politico). I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.
Funny stuff there. The NYTs link is over 5 years old and the other link doesn’t work. Pretty much as expected, blowing smoke and exaggerations are all you offer.
How about something a little closer to today’s reality?
Gee, a whole 5 years old! Well, I guess that’s just SOOO outdated as to be completely worthless, eh? #sarc Gawd, you libturds make me sick. Just like I said, the facts never seem to sway you from your incorrect opinions.
And the other link works fine btw, you just don’t want to admit that you’re wrong. It’s from the Cultural Cognition Project at the Yale Law School.
Right, send something current or move on. 5 years is an eternity in todays world.
I knew you were too cowardly and dishonest to challenge your preconceptions. Oh well, can’t say I’m at all surprised.
If you believe a 5 year old study, I question your honesty.
Uh huh. A 25 year old study maybe, like the one the President and the other gun grabbers continue to cite “proving” that 40% of gun sales supposedly take place without a background check (this tiny study of only 250 people was based on data from before the current background check system was actually put into place). THIS is the type of study not to be believed.
However, one from only a few years ago, the only people who don’t believe this type of evidence are the willfully ignorant. I also notice you’re entirely ignoring my second citation. Gee, I wonder why that is? People like you are what’s wrong with our political system, the fact that you refuse to believe anything that challenges your current belief system.
The link does not work. You sanctimonious POS.
It most certainly does. You willfully ignorant doofus
http://www.culturalcognition.Net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-
education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html
You are the perfect representative of the TEA BAGGERS, arrogant and obnoxious all rolled into one disgusting package. May you live well and prosper and then die like the rest of your sleazeball party.
Yawn. First of all, I’m not affiliated with the Tea Party, not even close. I’m a firm centrist interested in the TRUTH. And the simple truth is that the Tea Party are not the bunch of southern rednecks you libturds wish they were. They are in general highly educated and wealthier than the average American, as I have clearly shown. and has all you’ve been able to do in response is to deflect, froth at the mouth, and call names.
You want me to live well, prosper, and then die? Gee, thanks. since we all have to die one day, I’d might as well live well and prosper. Doofus.
Here’s a newer analysis from 2012, saying almost exactly the same thing as my other citations:
http://www.cbsnews.Com/news/tea-party-supporters-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/
Not that any amount of evidence, no matter how recent, will sway willfully ignorant libturds like you from their entrenched dogmatic opinions.
“Members of the tea party appear to be not only wealthier and better educated than the general public, …”
.. and they’re older and whiter (and male). That tell you anything?
They do tend to be older (75% are over 45) and white (89%), but there is no evidence that they are primarily male.
http://www.cbsnews.Com/news/tea-party-supporters-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/
What does this tell me? Um, that older white people are wealthier and better educated than the general public. So what? Remember, 3/4 of the country is white.
Perhaps you should work harder and do less whining, that way you could be wealthier and better educated too.
That’s good news.
It seems America is regressing toward a mind set prior to the 60’s civil rights movement. It has been slipping through the cracks that the fear within economic disparity has brought to a society that refuses to educate itself.
white people wear their victimhood like a badge of honor
Oh brother … as if blacks, native Americans, Asians, or anyone else is any less eager to play the victim card. How about “ALL people wear their victimhood …”?? At least this would not be so misleading. And just HOW is one group’s feelings of discrimination any more or less valid that that of another group? Blacks are the biggest whiners of all, despite a great deal of clear evidence that they are almost NEVER the victims of discrimination anymore, especially the vaunted and oh-so-elusive “institutionalized racism” we keep hearing about but never seen any evidence of.
Black people and minorities in general are a lot more racist than caucasians…
You discriminate therefore you feel discriminated against! This BS rhetoric is just another example of how delusional tea party members are. History is not on their side! Willful ignorance is the state and practice of ignoring any sensory input that appears to contradict one’s inner model of reality. “”Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley.