Posted on 06/24/2020 7:43:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Back in the 1990s, I began asking a simple polling question that highlights a massive change in the way Americans view their country: Generally speaking, is American society fair and decent or is it unfair and discriminatory? In those long-ago days, voters overwhelmingly responded fair and decent, typically by a 2-to-1 margin.
Things are much different today. Polling I conducted this past weekend found that just 38% of voters nationwide believe our society is generally fair and decent. Nearly half (47%) believe our society is unfair and discriminatory. That’s consistent with data I cited a few weeks back showing that just 31% believe most Americans treat white and Black voters equally.
On this question, there is naturally a partisan divide. Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans say our society is fair and decent while 69% of Democrats take the opposite view. By a 45% to 31% margin, independent voters agree with the Democrats.
Not surprisingly, there is also a big racial divide on this question. White voters are evenly divided while 77% of Black voters say our society is unfair and discriminatory. Forty-nine percent (49%) of Hispanic voters agree.
This is a big deal in a country where the culture leads and politicians lag behind. Those who think that our society is fair and decent recognize that our nation is not perfect but tend to think only minor changes are needed. For those who believe society itself is unfair and discriminatory, the time has come to shake up the system and replace it with something better.
For some, the core issue may be income inequality. For most though, at this point in time, the core issue is racial inequality.
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Some people only think about race. It is a big turn off as well
So America has now shifted to “Some bad cops out of the many that aren’t means America is racist and discriminatory”?
What’s next, a “noose” at Nascar that could hang a cat is more proof that America is racist and discriminatory?
Well, yeah. Frank Zappa would have been hung, and the offices of The National Lampoon burned to the ground had they existed today. I’ve never felt so discriminated against in my life as the present.
The Torture Never Stops.
Impossible to answer such a question. It is much too broad in scope, and will get a “discriminatory” answer if the respondent thinks there is SOME unfairness in the USA. Obviously there is, and so most will answer that the entire society is.
Like asking if the USA is racist. The respondent will answer yes if he thinks there is SOME racism in the USA. Sensible people will refuse to answer the question because it is much too broad in scope.
IMO, America is about “equal opportunity”, not “equal outcomes”. If you don’t want to work as hard as the next person you will get equal results like they did.
Stop the expensive fighting. Ship off all liberals to Venezuela.
Very fair
Over the last several decades, I have not gone into a school, office, hospital, business, store, etc. without seeing US minorities represented, wall-to-wall!
We even have groups, across the country, that I don’t recognize at all.
I don’t understand the constant chant that there’s ‘inequality’ here.
When black and brown people are bombarded endlessly with the mantra that white people are keeping them down, why should they believe anything else?
When the average IQ is 81, they cannot think for themselves. They don’t have the capacity.
RE: I don’t understand the constant chant that there’s ‘inequality’ here.
Because the OUTCOMES are UNEQUAL.
Compared to Whites and Asians, Blacks say they are UNDERREPRESENTED in the best colleges, the top schools, the best high paying professions, income brackets, good housing, and are disproportionately targeted by the Police.
At least that’s what I hear constantly.
“On the bright side, 76% of voters believe most Americans want to live in a society where white and Black Americans are treated equally.”
What the f*ck does that mean? Ask two people and you get two different answer of what “treated equally” means.
Egalitarianism is at the root of all this rioting.
RE: What the f*ck does that mean? Ask two people and you get two different answer of what “treated equally” means.
Because the OUTCOMES are UNEQUAL.
Compared to Whites and Asians, Blacks say they are UNDERREPRESENTED in the best colleges, the top schools, the best high paying professions, income brackets, good housing, and are disproportionately targeted by the Police.
At least that’s what I hear constantly. As long the outcomes are unequal, you will ALWAYS see endless chants of inequality and White privilege ( I wonder when we’re going to see “Asian privilege” added in the mix ... ).
Everybody has the OPPORTUNITY to affect the OUTCOME. Not my fault, or yours, if anybody squandered that.
I would like to see an honest discussion of just “racism” is. How do I know if I am a racist? If I disagree with a black person does that make me a racist? If I am an employer and don’t give an unqualified black a job in favor of a qualified white, does that make we a racist? If in a conversation I use the word “negro” does that make me a racist? If my great-grandfather was a Confederate soldier does that make me a racist? I, frankly, am confused!
If the rest of the poll is any indication, the majority equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
How many trillions in reparations and how many more affirmative action will it take before that happens?
RE: I would like to see an honest discussion of just “racism” is. How do I know if I am a racist?
Let’s start by looking at the DEFINITION of racism and see if our attitudes FIT the definition. If we keep using that word thoughtlessly, then it becomes useless and could mean anything anyone wants to believe, like the words “Climate Change”.
Here it is:
Racism is the belief that groups of humans inherently possess different behavioral traits corresponding to physical appearance and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.
It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity.
What other country has done more to support and defend equal rights than the US? That is the real question. The US has spent $22 Trillion on affirmative action and the “Great Society” program that Johnson saddled us with. Where are the results? How much have other countries spent on equalization?
That is the book definition. But today’s everyday definition goes much further. It includes a wide variety of behaviors, attitudes and imaginations. The blacks and whites should sit around the same table and come up with a definition we all can live with. I remain “confused.”
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