TX Republicans Say Christians And Whites Face Most Discrimination
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Via: john-russell • 4 years ago • 21 commentsBy: News Hound Ellen (Crooks and Liars)
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From the findings of a recent University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll:
The vast majority of Democrats, 74%, said that either Black people (43%) or transgender people (31%) face the most discrimination in America today, while among Republicans, 65% said that either white people (34%) or Christians (31%) face the most discrimination.
Furthermore, only 11% of Republicans think Blacks are the most discriminated group. 12% think transgender people are.
I think we all know how it is that so many more Republicans think white people and Christians face more discrimination than Blacks and transgender folk: the perpetual grievance and resentment stoked by the likes of Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro and then parroted by MAGApoliticians:
The Dallas Observer pretty much proved my point when it noted that it's not just Texas Republicans who think white Christians are the biggest victims:
Lone Star State conservatives aren't the only ones who think this way. In a 2020 national survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, nearly three-quarters (73%) of Republicans who trusted FOX most out of all TV news reported that they believed Christians face "a lot of discrimination." Around 58% said white people are often discriminated against.
The Observer cited a February appearance on Fox & Friends by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) as a good example of how the right-wing whips up imaginary victimhood, then uses it as a weapon against tolerance:
A member of Finland's parliament, Paivi Rasanen, was on trial for her beliefs, Roy said. He lambasted the controversy as a "war on religious freedom." (Rasanen was accused of provoking anti-LGBT+ hate speech after she derided homosexuality as a "disorder of psychosexual development" and called gay people "dysfunctional," according to Euronews.)
"This is a really chilling reality in a Western civilization country," Roy said. "This isn't Iran; this isn't China. This is Finland, and the American people need to know this is coming to a theater near you."
In that segment, Fox host Steve Doocy validated and drove home the victimhood meme by exclaiming that Rasanen and a cohort were "on trial for being religious!"
So it's not just the intolerance that progressives are up against in this country, but the daily, right-wing-media drumbeat of fear and persecution that fuels it.
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Thats one way to avoid social justice. Just claim that you are the real victim.
All they have to do is show us the proof/evidence just like any other claim.
WTF, how ridiculous is that.
I was thinking the same god damn thing.
White working class voters used to represent a solid Democratic section of their coalition. White voters without college degrees, have swung sharply toward the Repubs over the last few decades. Your attitude is part of that explanation.
So the fuck what? That's in Finland. They have different laws and a way of life than Americans. Many European countries do not abide hate speech. They saw what unfettered hate speech wrought 80 years ago
I read where the right's new bastion of 'free speech' has told Europe it will abide by their rules when he takes over.
Putin or trmp?
Never mind....Musk, right?
Musk. He said twitter will abide by their rules and regulations in order to operate there.
I guess only the US is suppose to coddle trolls.
Not mentioned in the story, I guess, but the case was dismissed.
Christians have been persecuted since about 150 millenia before the creation of the universe.
White people have been discriminated against since they weren't allowed to own slaves anymore. There was also a brief episode in the 1600's when the savage natives would retaliate for the murder of women and children and the destruction of food stores.