Monday, December 12, 2022

How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics

 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/

What could be fueling an increase in these views? Following Trump’s loss in 2020, the Republican Party leaned further into messages that paint Republicans and white people as victims of an overzealous movement for racial justice. For example, Fox News coverage of critical race theory — a decades-old framework for legal scholarship — surged during the Virginia gubernatorial campaign, according to a Newsweek analysis, only to quickly and starkly dip following Republican Glenn Youngkin’s win. And several pundits pointed to education and critical race theory as reasons for his success. Republicans have also found a seemingly successful political strategy in attacking and amplifying race-related buzzwords, such as “woke,” once used in activist circles. And as FiveThirtyEight contributors Hakeem Jefferson and Victor Ray pointed out on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, the current narratives of victimization and the associated backlash to racial progress are some white people’s way of reckoning with the changing times.

10 comments:

  1. No, left wing denialism wishes to bury the facts of Islamic extremism. NY times being a perpetrator
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/11/michael-gove-calls-new-york-times-useful-idiots-for-trojan-horse-podcast

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  2. As opposed to Black and Gay victimhood fueling Democrat politics?

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  3. Thanks for posting another feeble attempt to try and convince us not to believe what is happening when it's obviously happening.

    How about a little balance? How about including some of the quotes from people explicitly saying they are trying to do away with White people in America?

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  4. Left wing is always about victimhood.
    Workers v capitalism. Then gays victims. Palestinian victims being the sole victimhood in the world, whilst Zionism became the sole oppressor, and central problem of the middle east, allowing Iran, Iraq and other Arab dictators to murder millions.
    Now everything is white privilege, and this again denies crime and terror of islamists , etc.

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  5. The whole "Woke" thing backfired on the Left. They invented the term and marched around proudly. They were "woke" to all the things that made America and the West the true source of evil in the world! And then their victims started pushing back and, like the cowardly bullies they are, they turtled! We never said "Woke", you invented that! How dare you say we demanded anti-racist racism as a new model for society! How dare you use our own tactics to attack us!

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  6. In other words the "conservatives" are merely imitating the despised leftists?!

    After spending years attacking theses tactics they are now using them?!

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  7. When you start persecuting a race, because others did bad things a few centuries back, this is fascism, of the left.

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  8. White Americans

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