Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

The Atlantic ^ | 10-10-2018 | Yascha Mounk

[Sir Napsalot]

...According to the report, 25 percent of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives, and their views are far outside the American mainstream. Some 8 percent of Americans are progressive activists, and their views are even less typical. By contrast, the two-thirds of Americans who don’t belong to either extreme constitute an “exhausted majority.” Their members “share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and a lack of voice in the national conversation.”

(snip)

If age and race do not predict support for political correctness, what does? Income and education.

While 83 percent of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness, just 70 percent of those who make more than $100,000 are skeptical about it. And while 87 percent who have never attended college think that political correctness has grown to be a problem, only 66 percent of those with a postgraduate degree share that sentiment.

Political tribe—as defined by the authors (note: from above mentioned study)—is an even better predictor of views on political correctness. Among devoted conservatives, 97 percent believe that political correctness is a problem. Among traditional liberals, 61 percent do. Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem.

So what does this group look like? Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree.... With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.

[ballplayer]

Progressive=Communist since the 30s,so the highly educated are actually morons

[SunkenCiv]

Political tribe—as defined by the authors (note: from above mentioned study)—is an even better predictor of views on political correctness. Among devoted conservatives, 97 percent believe that political correctness is a problem. Among traditional liberals, 61 percent do. Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem. So what does this group look like? Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree...

And what do they fall for?

Thanks Iron Munro:

[JimRed]

...According to the report, 25 percent of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives, and their views are far outside the American mainstream.

Lies corrected.

[JimRed]

Another FReeper suggested that they are “Educated beyond their intelligence”.

[Peter ODonnell]

They say “only” 66% of college graduates dislike the PC culture. That is a strange way to phrase the opinions of two thirds of any group and a much higher percentage than I would have guessed.

[blam]

I hate Vocal Fry

The Vocal Fry Epidemic

[ZULU]

Left UMC
Left ELCA.

Now a churchless Christian.

[blam]

Another FReeper suggested that they are “Educated beyond their intelligence"

An educational Peter Principal , eh?