Originally posted by dadudemon
Keep talking about race and keep looking for things that are different about each other to call it racism? That's racism itself. They need to stop with their racist obsessions. They need to stop thinking so hard like racists and to stop calling everything racist.
Something like this is interesting because of some of the studies done by Pew Research that have followed several topics about the polarity of political dialogue from 1994 to 2017.
So in a broad sense, many folks say we are better off today then we were in 1994, socially, technologically, racially etc yet this particular study shows that we are much further apart today then we were in 94.
Racial discrimination. In recent years, Democrats’ views on racial discrimination also have changed, driving an overall shift in public opinion. Currently, 41% of Americans say racial discrimination is the main reason many blacks cannot get ahead – the largest share expressing this view in surveys dating back 23 years. Still, somewhat more Americans (49%) say blacks who cannot get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition.When the racial discrimination question was first asked in 1994, the partisan difference was 13 points. By 2009, it was only somewhat larger (19 points). But today, the gap in opinions between Republicans and Democrats about racial discrimination and black advancement has increased to 50 points.
What's more is that according to Pew the differences have grown wider in all views that the Pew study engaged in with 10 particular topics.
But the bottom line is this: Across 10 measures that Pew Research Center has tracked on the same surveys since 1994, the average partisan gap has increased from 15 percentage points to 36 points.
Partisan Divide Grows
And part of that echo chamber is there because it has been shown that liberal Democrats are more likely to use social media platforms to find people with similar beliefs.
Liberal Democrats are especially likely to use social media to mobilize others or find like-minded groups. Some 44% of liberal Democrats say they have used these sites in the past year to encourage others to take action on an issue that was important to them, while a similar share (43%) have taken part in a group that shares their interest in a cause, according to a survey of U.S. adults conducted May 29-June 11, 2018. These shares fall to around a third or fewer among conservative or moderate Democrats and among conservative, moderate or liberal Republicans.
Social Media Utilization
Yeah folks are getting triggered all right, echo echo echo echo.