Posted on 09/08/2015 11:13:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Majorities of whites think anti-white discrimination is as bad as the anti-black kind. Honestly, are they out of their minds?
Last week, New York Times columnist Tom Edsall, in a piece about Donald Trump’s appeal amongst conservative voters, cited an alarming survey on white people’s racial attitudes that made me wonder if large segments of white America are completely misinterpreting what racism is and how prevalent it remains in our society.
Edsall pointed to a study conducted last fall by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that 52 percent of white respondents agreed with the following statement: “Today discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.”
Among subsets of respondents, 76 percent of those affiliated with the Tea Party agreed with the statement. Another 61 percent of Republicans, and 53 percent of independents. A majority of whites over age 50 also agreed with the statement, and 58 percent of working-class whites agreed. Evangelical Protestants (63 percent) and Catholics (56 percent) also agreed.
62 percent of white Democrats disagreed, and 61 percent of those with a college education. White Americans under 50 also disagreed, even though it was close. Only 48 percent of whites between the ages of 18-29 agreed, and 49 percent of them disagreed. Of whites 30-49, 46 percent agreed and 52 percent disagreed.
Upon seeing these figures I immediately wondered about what exactly white Americans perceive racism to be, and how the supposed racism they receive has become equal to that of African Americans and other minority groups.
Did a leading American presidential candidate refer to large swaths of the white American population as “rapists” and “murderers”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I guess Barret has never heard of Affirmative Action
It isn’t as bad, it’s worse. People get away with anti-White bigotry.
Discrimination is not racism. Discrimination is being able to tell that there is a difference between two things.
Does he mean the 12% of our population that commits over 50% of the violent crime?
I have yet to find an evidence that white people in this Nation have ever rioted when angered by blacks!
Its a white thing, Barrett wouldn’t understand.
What would you expect from this racist black author?
Barrett Holmes Pitner hasn't noticed that black race baiters are calling for the death of white people when there are no white groups that I know of calling for the deaths of black people (not even the KKK that I've heard of in the last 50 years).
Barrett Holmes Pitner must not live in the real world.
Surprise, surprise. A bigoted black supremacist is trying to marginalize people who recognize he is a racist.
What are the racial crime stats, adjusted to factor in size of racial group relative to % of population?
My recollection is that Black on White crime is something like 50 to 1, adjusted.
Perhaps thats driving the perception of racism that Whites have?
Leftists live in a world of their own. A world where right is wrong and up is down.
News flash, "Mexicans" ain't a race.
He jealously clings to his racism. As if it is measured in some special way other than reality. I think it is he who misunderstands. Apparently, it is open season on polar bears, too.
Anyone who doesn't know this has either only had indoctrination from public schools and no contact with the outside world, believeth every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jesse Jackson and Farrakhanman or is a liar.
Really? My guess is that blacks are more discriminatory towards whites than vice versa. Let a white man have his car break down in an all-black neighborhood and let the same thing happen to a black man in an all-white neighborhood. Who do you think is in more danger?
Leftists spend their lives standing on their heads telling the rest of the world that it is upsidedown.
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
-William F. Buckley
That word doesn't mean what he thinks it means.
I'm not sure that it can go much farther, short of blacks shooting white people, and claiming that white racism made them do..... ah. never mind.
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