{"id":7712,"date":"2022-04-22T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2022-04-22T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:39:58","slug":"how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7712","title":{"rendered":"How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“According to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center<\/a>, for example, only 17 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans said there is \u201ca lot\u201d of discrimination against Black people in today\u2019s society. That number rose to 26 percent when Republicans were asked whether they believed white<\/em> people faced \u201ca lot\u201d of discrimination. And intense white racial resentment<\/a> remains present both among Trump\u2019s base and in our politics today. Case in point: Trump, who\u2019s a (very, very early<\/a>) 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<\/a> that white people were currently being discriminated against and sent to the \u201cback of the line\u201d when it came to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.”
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“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<\/a>, mortgage denial rates<\/a>, COVID-19 vaccination and illness rates<\/a>, police violence rates<\/a> 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<\/a>). You can\u2019t, however, find such widespread evidence for anti-white discrimination. So why have many white Americans started to see themselvesas the victims of racial discrimination?”  
https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“According to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center, for example, only 17 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning Americans said there is \u201ca lot\u201d of discrimination against Black people in today\u2019s society. That number rose to 26 percent when Republicans were asked whether they believed white people faced \u201ca lot\u201d of discrimination. And intense white racial resentment remains present both among Trump\u2019s base and in our politics today. Case in point: Trump, who\u2019s 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 \u201cback of the line\u201d when it came to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.”<\/p>\n

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“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\u2019t, 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?” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[637,751,642],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-polling","tag-polls","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}