…from Pew Research ….
Large shares of Americans say there is at least some discrimination against several groups in the United States, including 80% who say there is a lot of or some discrimination against Black people, 76% who say this about Hispanic people and 70% who see discrimination against Asian people.
Nearly half of Americans (46%) say there is “a lot” of discrimination against Black people. About three-in-ten see a lot of discrimination against Hispanic people (30%) and Asian people (27%).
Americans are much less likely to say there is discrimination against White people: 40% say White people face at least some discrimination, and just 14% say White people face a lot of discrimination, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 1-7, 2021.
The survey was fielded before the March 16 Atlanta-area shootings in which six of the eight victims were Asian women. Also, these questions ask Americans about their perceptions of discrimination against groups of people rather than about violence or individuals’ personal experiences with discrimination or violence; see “How we did this” for additional resources on those subjects….
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Sizable majorities across racial and ethnic groups say Asian people face at least some discrimination; 42% of Asian Americans say that Asian people face a lot of discrimination. By comparison, 36% of Hispanic people, 32% of Black people and 22% of White people say the same.
White adults are by far the most likely to say that White people face at least some discrimination in our society: About half (48%) say this. Those in other racial and ethnic groups are much less likely to say White people face discrimination (28% of Hispanic adults say this, as do about two-in-ten Black and Asian adults)….
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While Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say Black, Hispanic and Asian people face discrimination, Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to say that there is a lot of discrimination against White people in society today. About a quarter of Republicans (26%) say that White people face a lot of discrimination; just 4% of Democrats say this. White Republicans are 24 percentage points more likely than White Democrats to say that White people face a lot of discrimination.
Aside from racial and ethnic groups, the survey asks about discrimination against other groups in society, including gays and lesbians, women and men, Muslims, Jews and evangelical Christians….
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Views of discrimination against men and women differ sharply by gender, particularly among Republicans….
This headline is a distortion of what the survey was really asking.
People were not asked if *they* feel discriminated against but if they think a group in general, is discriminated against,
It’s a very different thing. People are far more likely to think “others” are facing problems that they may not necessarily think they are facing.
This is similar to how Trump supporters in the last election were buoyed by polls which showed Trump doing poorly in topline numbers, but all sorts of people thought their neighbors were Trump supporters.
They survey asked the question from different points of view….
One part had the 26%….
It did show that race IS viewed in far different ways for whites than. minorities….
I’m sure that in reality?
Most people ARE discriminated against for a whole book load of reasons….
But race, sex and religion I’d say are the top three by far….
Your headline is completely inaccurate though and would never pass any sort of editor.
People were not asked the question in an individual way but in regards to groups that they may*or* may not belong to.
But you can blame jack though I suppose, because he phrased it the same way in a comment.
One should look at the actual questions, the numbers and compare trends if they really want to understand this.
The most newsworthy portion of this survey is that compared to 2019, a statistically significant larger portion of the population now say that blacks face discrimination and/or large amounts of discrimination.
The percentage that say it about whites (while of course being much lower) is significantly unchanged since two years ago.
So in addition to being factually inaccurate, the headline here has nothing to do with the most salient points of data that were discovered. But everyone has an agenda I suppose.
Also, the numbers on this question are basically the same as they were in 2017 and 2019 so there does not appear to be anything “new” here.
Again though, read the poll. Read the article. *Nobody* in this survey was asked if they personally feel discriminated against.
Now, in regards to the murders in the Atlanta area, there are some things that can be agreed on.
1. The crimes were horrific and the suspect, if convicted, (which appears obvious) should be punished to the highest extent of the law. I continue to support capital punishment.
2. There absolutely have been instances over the last year of an increase in attacks or harassment against Asian-Americans (just as there was the year previously in regards to Jewish-Americans) and the issues and rhetoric related to Covid-19 have played a part. Clearly, no Asian-American, or person of any Asian background, except the leaders of the Communist government of China have one darn thing to answer for in regard to the virus. They are as much victims of it as anyone else.
Nonetheless, people are rushing to create a narrative here that likely does not exist in regards to the murders. It is pretty clear that it had nothing to with the Coronavirus or anger at Asians over that. Investigators should still continue to try to determine if the shootings were race-based, but if they were not, they were not, and we shouldn’t have to be forced to pretend they were.
There seem to be other ugly factors at play here.
Yo CG?
The headline on this post is from PWire…..
Wouldn’t be the first time PWire has done something like that. One has to be willing to accept that the editor of that site. Teagan Goddard, has a anti-Republican political agenda.
That’s perfectly fine to have, but still, facts should matter, and that factual inaccuracy of the headline should be called out, there, and here.
So 26% of Republicans think white Americans face discrimination due to their race. Would that be a more accurate headline?
Yep, more accurate, but still not the most significant piece of data from the poll.
The number of Republicans (or whites in general) that think that about whites is statistically unchanged from 2017 and 2019 while the number of Republicans (and whites in general) now in statistically larger numbers say that blacks are discriminated against as compared to 2017 and 2019.
Bye.
My observation has been the many of the Whites who believe that they or other Whites are “discriminated” against is a result of their “beliefs” or their simple outrage at what they perceive to be a society that pays too much attention to other people.
Often I have unheard White makes ,usually older, exclaim”what about us?” Or a similiar type exclamation when the media is covering Black events, festivals etc.They will often describe that as “discrimination” when it manifestly isn’t.
It’s more of a resentment over what they perceive as a loss or diminution in their status.Such may be an arguable point,at least in their mind,but it has nothing to do with actual discrimination.