White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts,
study says
Posted on 05/31/2018 2:55:02 PM PDT by BBell
White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition to welfare programs has grown among white Americans since 2008, even when controlling for political views and socioeconomic status.
White Americans are more likely to favor welfare cuts when they believe that their status is threatened and that minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs, the study says.
The findings suggest that political efforts to cut welfare programs are driven less by conservative principles than by racial anxiety, the authors conclude. T hat also hurts white Americans who make up the largest share of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients. President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have proposed deep cuts to both programs.
“I think our research is very relevant to politics,” said Rachel Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and the lead author of the new research. “My main hope here is that people take a step back, look at what these sorts of programs do for the poor, and think about what’s driving opposition to them.”
Wetts and her co-author, Stanford University sociologist Robb Willer, conducted three separate experiments designed to gauge white Americans’ attitudes toward welfare and the factors that influenced them.
In the first, the researchers analyzed 10 years of nationally representative survey data on attitudes toward race and welfare programs. Between 2008 and 2012 in particular, they found, opposition to welfare rose among all Americans -- but far more sharply among whites, who also began scoring higher on racial resentment scales during that period.
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White America’s racial resentment is the real impetus for welfare cuts,
study says
Fixed it
Imagine the first time I had to check one of the boxes....
I was like ..... what?
My estimate was meant to be conservative.
The same can be said about out of wedlock (OOW) births.
This is nothing short of a tragedy.
Our policies should be directed at eliminating out of wedlock births and encouraging marriage between men and women. But, we are told, that would be discriminatory.
Assuming this study is correct (and I hope it is) it is a great thing for whites to become more resentful of this gigantic waste of tax revenues.
It is horrifying how quick they have gotten to this point within the past year. Next up they will come right out on Cnn and say kill whitey if they haven’t already.
I wonder how all the whites that are on their side will feel or the look on their faces when they come after them too???
I think the theme of the evil white man has taken over the theme of sharia for all right now.
200 years of slavery is white mans fault? My family is not pure white nor has been here for those 200 years, yet they will come for me at some point.
Have you noticed all the ads on TV no longer have “white” families. Every ad has a white parent and mixed race children. I’ve heard the plan is to absorb white people.
Honestly, in my heart I feel sorry for these foolish people. They believe if they change the color of our skin, all their problems will be over.
It is the most racist way of thinking and most pointless, too. People are divided by good and evil, not black and white.
I’m sick that we literally pi$$ed away $20 or $30 TRILLION and everything is WORSE. Let people pull their own weight, give them the dignity of work, and things will get a lot better. Unless somebody is physically disabled or retarded, there is NO REASON for a person to be on welfare.
It’s being done to “them” quite deliberately. Self sufficient people don’t need to be ruled. What’s there in that for the political class?
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That's because minorities ARE the main beneficiaries of "safety net programs," otherwise known as welfare. They are grossly overrepresented as a percentage of their overall population.
Ad agencies are paid to brainwash and happen to agree with the “Progressive” agenda.
racial resentment scales...
To a hammer every thing looks like a nail.
When welfare was a matter for state and local gov’t, there was much less abuse, because local people reported it and the gov’t acted on it.
But when the Great Society moved it to the federal gov’t, accountability went out the window.
minorities are the main beneficiaries of safety net programs
And that doesn’t raise any questions?
If white majorities were the main beneficiaries,
they’d be screaming about that.
To hell with them.
We aren’t like them, we don’t wake up in the morning hating on people. They are just miserable pukes and I don’t care what they think.
I’m sick to death of socialism. It’s a dismal failure everywhere it gets tried. Ethnicity is not the real issue. Big government, political corruption and s dependency culture - all products of socialism, are the issues.
Safety net is one thing, making a career out of living on the peoples charity is something else entirely..
I didn’t know Lazy Assed Parasite was a race.
A lot of ads and TV shows have social engineering. From then on, I assume they’re gone quite leftist.
It is sick and abusive to assume blacks want to be on welfare.
Blacks hate affirmative action too.
Could you image getting a job because you were lied to that you deserved it instead of earned it.
How humiliating.
Institutionalized insult after institutional insult coming from the leftist slave masters.
“your not good enough, bro”
“your not smart enough, bro”
“you need us to save your from your liberators, bro” OOPs!
Which is it? When convenient liberals like to say it is white middle America and not democrat cites which depend on welfare, now it is not...
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