A recent study by University of Pennsylvania reseachers Danial J. Hopkins and Samantha Washington found that America is much less racist under President Trump than under race-baiting, whitey-bashing Democrat Barack Obama.
Daniel J. Hopkins and Samantha Washington set out to measure the effect of Trump's election on anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice, using a randomly-selected panel of 2,500 Americans whose changing opinions have been under study since 2008.
The academics report that they had been expecting to measure a rise in racist opinions, writing: 'The normalization of prejudice or opinion leadership both lead us to expect that expressed prejudice may have increased in this period, especially among Republicans or Trump supporters'.
They had been led to expect this, they say, through an extensive reading of recent literature in social sciences which, they say, supports the notion that racist attitudes lie dormant inside many people, waiting to be triggered by certain events - of which the election of Donald Trump might be one.
There could, after all, hardly be anything more calculated to awaken an incipient racist than the president calling Mexicans a bunch of rapists.
Americans, claim Hopkins and Washington, have actually become less inclined to express racist opinions since Donald Trump was elected.
Anti-black prejudice, they found, declined by a statistically-insignificant degree between 2012 and 2016, when Trump was elected.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/university-study-finds-us-less-racist-under-president-trump-than-whitey-bashing-obama/
Daniel J. Hopkins and Samantha Washington set out to measure the effect of Trump's election on anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice, using a randomly-selected panel of 2,500 Americans whose changing opinions have been under study since 2008.
The academics report that they had been expecting to measure a rise in racist opinions, writing: 'The normalization of prejudice or opinion leadership both lead us to expect that expressed prejudice may have increased in this period, especially among Republicans or Trump supporters'.
They had been led to expect this, they say, through an extensive reading of recent literature in social sciences which, they say, supports the notion that racist attitudes lie dormant inside many people, waiting to be triggered by certain events - of which the election of Donald Trump might be one.
There could, after all, hardly be anything more calculated to awaken an incipient racist than the president calling Mexicans a bunch of rapists.
Americans, claim Hopkins and Washington, have actually become less inclined to express racist opinions since Donald Trump was elected.
Anti-black prejudice, they found, declined by a statistically-insignificant degree between 2012 and 2016, when Trump was elected.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/university-study-finds-us-less-racist-under-president-trump-than-whitey-bashing-obama/
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