Yes, half of Trump supporters are racist (barf)

Washington Post ^ | 12/9/16 | Dana Milbank

[Eleutheria5]

BALTIMORE — Hillary Clinton may have been unwise... But she wasn’t wrong.

If anything, when it comes to Trump’s racist support, she might have low-balled the number.

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But this isn’t a matter of gratuitous name-calling. This election has proved that there is much more racism in America than many believed. It came out of hiding in opposition to the first African American president, and it has been welcomed into the open by Trump.

The American National Election Studies, the long-running, extensive poll of American voters, asked voters in 2012 a basic test of prejudice: to rank black and white people on a scale from hardworking to lazy and from intelligent to unintelligent. The researchers found that 62 percent of white people gave black people a lower score in at least one of the attributes. This was a jump in prejudicial attitudes from 2008, when 45 percent of white people expressed negative stereotypes.

This question is a good indicator of how one votes: Republican Mitt Romney won 61 percent of those who expressed negative stereotypes. And, when the question was asked during the 2008 primaries, those with negative racial stereotypes consistently favored Republican candidates — any of them — over any Democratic candidate in hypothetical matchups.

“There is plenty of overt white prejudice,” observes Simon Jackman, who directed the ANES until earlier this year and now runs the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. “Whites who reported prejudicial beliefs about blacks skewed heavily Republican in 2008 and 2012 — and they will in 2016.”

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In June, the Pew Research Center found that 79 percent of Clinton voters believe the treatment of racial and ethnic minorities is an important issue, while only 42 percent of Trump supporters feel that way....

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[Eleutheria5]

I was beginning to get a toxic reaction from the inverted logic and double standard.

So a brief deconstruction might help clear up the hives. Half of people with a negative view of blacks vote Republican. Therefore, half of Republican voters are racists. Only whites can be racist, so there is no point in even examining whether blacks are racist. More whites have negative views of blacks after four years of Obama, and this is because of their racism, not because they voted for Obama and were bitterly disappointed. And finally, believing that treatment of racial and ethnic minorities is not an important issue automatically means that you believe they should be treated badly. Wow. How does anyone utter so many non-sequitur as Dana Milbank does without at least throwing up?

You may well be a racist, if none of these flaws in Milbank's argument even occurred to you, and you still reject them out of hand, and if you think my articulating them ipso facto makes me a racist. On the other hand, you might just be a cretin, which is perhaps one and the same thing, although it is possible to be a cretin without being a racist, and racists are merely one species of cretin. I suspect that Milbank is both.

[FlipWilson]

Yes, and this was already posted and commented on, so why give Dana Dbagbank a second chance to insult us?

[Altura Ct.]

If anything, when it comes to Trump’s racist support, she might have low-balled the number.

I hope so.

[NohSpinZone]

Hey, keep it up, DUmmies. You’re only helping make Trump’s case to the Americans who are fed up with a bunch of elitist scum looking down at their noses at us “unwashed masses”.

[max americana]

I thought we were deplorable?

[faithhopecharity]

Dear Washington Post, He is not “African- American”. At least until you can prove he’s American. Then we’ll read the rest of your article.

[Eleutheria5]

Didn’t see prior post. Oh, well. Send in the mods.

[Dr. Sivana]

In academic circles it is often thought that all whites are inherently racist, so that would include 70+% of HRC supporters.

[Ann Archy]

Well, half od Democrats are Gay like you, Dana, and you want to change our country!

[liberalism is suicide]

Those who whine the most about racism are frequently the most guilty of it.

[gubamyster]

I though after Trump won the nomination, all these elites finally said they understood his appeal. I guess they still don’t understand how much people hate them. Keep writing this crap Dana, it only gets more votes for Trump.

The basket of deplorables keeps getting bigger.

[Nifster]

Well all of hillarys supporters are either political class members or commies

[Jim Robinson]

I think that the vast majority of the left are racist bigots. They seem to openly and absolutely hate and despise people of no color. Especially if they’re also Christian and patriotic Americans. In fact, our current leftist bigoted government has become flat out hostile to Christians and patriots of any color. In their perverted prejudicial parlance: Christophobic Ameriphobes.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Dana Milbank is naught but, a sad has been empty suit!!!

[rockinqsranch]

The whole issue is bullshit. IF people are racist it doesn’t matter which political party the racist is in as long as we all know without a doubt it isn’t the Democrats who are the most racist of all. Look at their voting record on Civil Rights for confirmation.

[Maverick68]

Don’t care....ring me up when we want to have a REAL talk about racism in this country, til then, don’t care.

[Typical_Whitey]

Half of Hillary’s supporters agree with terrorists. They support Hamas and Hezbollah and draw false equivalency between those groups and the Israeli people. So would that be fair to compare?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The bottom-of-the-barrel intellectual level of discourse at the New York Slimes is breathtaking.

[Jim Robinson]

The earlier copy was for the morning shift.

[stillfree?]

100% of Clinton supporters are brain dead.