https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/
With President Biden having just passed one full year in office, public opinion research shows that white Americans — and especially Republicans — see whites as victims of discrimination more than, say, Hispanic or Black Americans. According to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center, for example, only 17 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans said there is “a lot” of discrimination against Black people in today’s society. That number rose to 26 percent when Republicans were asked whether they believed white people faced “a lot” of discrimination. And intense white racial resentment remains present both among Trump’s base and in our politics today. Case in point: Trump, who’s a (very, very early) favorite to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is still hitting that same drum; during a recent political event, the former president went so far as to falsely claim that white people were currently being discriminated against and sent to the “back of the line” when it came to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.
Trump is not the first white person to feel like a victim of discrimination or to make claims in that spirit. This phenomenon started long before him. But in the U.S., if we look at things like the racial wealth gap, mortgage denial rates, COVID-19 vaccination and illness rates, police violence rates or myriad other data sets, we quickly see plenty of systemic biases against Black Americans and other minority groups (such as increasing hate crimes against Asian Americans). You can’t, however, find such widespread evidence for anti-white discrimination. So why have many white Americans started to see themselves as the victims of racial discrimination?
Governments have quotes which discriminate against Whites when it's hiring time. Universities try to have quotas that exclude Whites. Whites are constantly told in the media and by government that they have too much power, too much money, too much privilege and that they need to be taken down a peg or three. There is plenty of anti-White discrimination but it's not called that. It's called "progressive quotes" and "repairing historical injustice".
ReplyDeleteThis is the difference between the Right and the Left. The Right is honest. They don't like Jews and N---ers. The Left is gutless and lies. Oh no, we like Jews, just not Zionists. We admire Blacks but expect them to act,talk and think like we tell them too.