Don't worry. If you don't agree with these results. Just say "the sample size was too small" or "this study was biased" and suddenly any scientific evidence against your point is worthless! Its so convenient that since some scientific studies are worse than others, we can just say any study against my viewpoints are the bad ones! Forget nuance lol.
These are opinion pieces written by social "scientists" who have come to a conclusion based on... whatever they believe.
They group an entire group of voters together and then slap a gigantic label on them and proclaim "SEE, I TOLD YOU THEY WERE ALL RACIST!!"
I mean, be reasonable, does that even really sound plausible, let alone possible? Think about the white people you know that voted Trump (if you know any) - are they racist? Was their vote racially motivated?
I went through every one of those studies and read the ones that were available, and their sources. The sources, btw, are just more social scientists coming to their own conclusions from selected data. For example, in one study there is a "temperature" rating for feelings voters have about other races, and left out of the analysis is that Clinton and Obama voters follow the same trend that Trump voters do, except in different amounts. For example, liberal voters feelings towards Muslims and undocumented immigrants dropped significantly, but no conclusions were drawn from that about racism or anti-immigration. He then takes these selected numbers and lumps them together and calls them "racial resentment". And as I said before, they are taking a minority and applying their made up label to the majority. Also, the author Sean McElwee - and this is from google btw - is an "American LEFT WING ACTIVIST and data scientist." This is the guy who other authors are basing their own research on. Do you see the conflict of interest? Do you see the circle jerk?
Look, if you're wielding a hammer the world is suddenly going to be filled with nails. I have no doubt that there is existential anxiety among (some) white folks regarding their place in society, and most probably don't even realize it. But to come out and label 50% of white America as voting Trump because they're racist, WHICH IS WHAT ALL THIS BULLSHIT IS BASICALLY TRYING TO SAY, is more "us vs them" political rhetoric.
I refuse to believe in the America that the media and far left and right are trying to sell us. 95% of us are good people with good hearts and good intentions. Yeah, we might get sideways and fucked up sometimes, just like brothers and sisters in a family do sometimes, but this xenophobic bullshit - this "either you're with us or you're against us" bullshit - has got to stop.
Stop being manipulated. Do the actual research. Learn who the sources are. Question everything, even if it provides you with confirmation (bias.)
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '19
The majority of trump voters were white and studies showed they voted for him out of fear of losing race status...