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Watters: The Left's warped perception of reality. (VIDEO 8 MINUTES)
foxnews ^ | 3/29/2022 | STAFF

Posted on 03/30/2022 5:27:04 PM PDT by bitt

Fox News host Jesse Watters shared statistics Tuesday challenging the acuity of America's perception of reality, saying that America is being brainwashed by the Left.

JESSE WATTERS:

Have you ever miscalculated and paid the price for it? I certainly have. Maybe you drove past the gas station thinking your tank could make it just a few more miles … or you went on a family vacation and miscounted how many kids you have. … miscalculating leads to mistakes, and what happens when you make a mistake? You overcorrect. When a ref blows a pass interference call, he usually gives that team the next call to even it out. It's not fair, but he's overcorrecting, and that does change the nature of the game. It's no different than what's happening in America right now. What we see on TV, in the movies, online are making us believe things about our country that aren't true, and we're making major decisions based off perception, not reality.

A new poll by YouGov asked people what percentage of the United States is black. Their answer? Forty-one percent. We think almost half the U.S. population is African-American, and that makes sense if you consume a lot of media. But it turns out black Americans are a smaller slice of the pie than they thought. The real number: 12 percent. Only 12 percent of Americans are African-American. How about Hispanic Americans? The poll shows that we all think that 39 percent of Americans are Hispanic. Way off again, only 17 percent of the population is Hispanic. And it's not just race that we have no idea about.

How many transgender people do you think live in the United States? The people who took this poll estimated 21 percent of our nation's population is transgender.

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1 posted on 03/30/2022 5:27:04 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/30/2022 5:27:16 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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Proof you don’t need numbers justa squeeky wheel!


3 posted on 03/30/2022 5:30:19 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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I saw this last night on YouTube. It should be spread far and wide. For instance the tranny thing is only 1% of the population.


4 posted on 03/30/2022 5:35:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Yup. 13% of the public is black but the public thinks it’s triple that (squeaky wheel).


5 posted on 03/30/2022 5:37:33 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: bitt
The people who took this poll estimated 21 percent of our nation's population is transgender.

Read this is the percentage of Gen Zers. The other generations are way, way less.

Propaganda in America today makes Pravda proud.

6 posted on 03/30/2022 5:38:23 PM PDT by lizma2
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Maybe the majority should stop catering to the minority.
Not suggesting we mistreat anyone, although the minorities will undoubtedly scream as if they were flogged in public.
Just suggesting we stop the @$$ kissing.

7 posted on 03/30/2022 5:42:38 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Cobra64

“13% of the public is black but...”

...that 13% is responsible for 60% of all violent crime on the USA.


8 posted on 03/30/2022 5:48:01 PM PDT by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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The right usually just ramble about “cultural Marxism” or some such; the general populace is puzzled and just shrugs.

90% percent of the problem is conservatives forgetting to speak plainly - to say something is “nuts” or “just plain wrong”, for example. They usually get sucked into arguments that use the fringe kookery’s terms, thus accepting the left’s values as valid.

I suppose you could spend years trying to establish in the populace concepts re:Lenin, Trotsky, Marx’s dialectical historicism, framing them from a capitalist viewpoint and hope they all catch on to the current in-slang. Or you could just speak to them where they already are in regular words, terms and concepts most everyone already understand - & agree on.


9 posted on 03/30/2022 5:48:03 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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Yup.


10 posted on 03/30/2022 5:50:24 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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My daughter in law and her best friend never told other kids they were straight. Other kids were bi, trans, gay, etc. But at least between the two of them they were 50% chocolate and 50% vanilla.


11 posted on 03/30/2022 5:50:50 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: bitt

STATS:

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/03/15/americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population


12 posted on 03/30/2022 5:52:23 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: LouieFisk

Most useful phrase to speak to crazy leftist ideas?

“No, I’m not doing that”.


13 posted on 03/30/2022 5:53:32 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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It was only a couple of decades ago when they tried to tell us that “perception is reality”
14 posted on 03/30/2022 6:08:19 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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Maybe people don’t know what ‘percent’ means?


15 posted on 03/30/2022 6:13:05 PM PDT by DHerion
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Maybe people don’t know what ‘percent’ means?

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A distinct possibility.


16 posted on 03/30/2022 6:20:45 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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For years the accepted percentage of homosexual Americans was 2%. slightly more males, slightly less females. This is the first time I’ve seen anything different.


17 posted on 03/30/2022 6:56:39 PM PDT by elpadre (And here in NCini)
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To: bitt

Btt


18 posted on 03/30/2022 7:41:54 PM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: Taxman

Ping


19 posted on 03/30/2022 8:31:35 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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How many transgender people do you think live in the United States? The people who took this poll estimated 21 percent of our nation's population is transgender. Twenty-one percent, a quarter of the country, is trans. That's what people think. Now are these news stories started to make sense? In reality, the number is 1 percent, 1 percent is trans.

How about gay people? We spend a lot of time talking about sexual orientation. With all that attention, surely that number must be high. All Americans estimated that 30 percent of their fellow citizens are gay. Wrong again, the real number is 3 percent.

Reality is a shocker to delusional left wing idiots...

20 posted on 03/30/2022 8:56:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand)
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