| ▲ | atmavatar 3 hours ago |
| For a sizable fraction of people, when the facts conflict with their biases, they choose to reject the facts and double-down on their biases. |
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| ▲ | lokar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Racism is a very powerful belief system. |
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| ▲ | shermantanktop 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | -isms of all kind are powerful. But the most powerful are those that give the believer a distant group of people for them to blame for all their troubles, which are often self-inflicted. | | |
| ▲ | anonymous_user9 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are you saying that calling people racist is the worst bigotry? | | |
| ▲ | mitxela 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | no they're agreeing racism is bad | |
| ▲ | zmgsabst 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | False accusations of racism (and similar moral slander) is the first step in dehumanizing an outgroup. | | |
| ▲ | solid_fuel an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > False accusations of racism (and similar moral slander) is the first step in dehumanizing an outgroup. Accurately describing the racism that motivates the politics and actions of a group is the first step in addressing the way they dehumanize their opponents. | |
| ▲ | bix6 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Pretty fascinating dem vs rep split. Dems say everyone experiences racism. Reps say white people experience it. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/views-of-how... | | |
| ▲ | zmgsabst 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | We must be reading different charts — the only one I can see has consistent numbers among Republicans (50%) but high numbers for Democrats (90%) except for Whites (20%). So your characterization is completely wrong: Republicans mildly think everybody does, while Democrats deny white people do. | | |
| ▲ | bix6 an hour ago | parent [-] | | We must be on different planets since America and its institutions are majority white. > 94% of Democrats say Black people face at least some discrimination, compared with 54% of Republicans.
90% of Democrats say the same about Hispanic people, compared with 54% of Republicans.
83% of Democrats say Asian people face widespread discrimination, versus 51% of Republicans.
By contrast, Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say that White people face at least some discrimination (55% vs. 21%). |
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| ▲ | 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [deleted] |
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| ▲ | maxerickson 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | More likely something like describing Trumpism. |
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| ▲ | airstrike 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| From an outsider's perspective, it's to be expected given the existence of cognitive dissonance. I just wish people would snap out of it _eventually_ |
