Liberals claim they “believe in science” so let’s see if they accept this. A new study proves that America has become less racist since Donald Trump took office in 2017. This of course flies in the face of the liberal narrative that Trump is stoking the flames of white supremacy and making our country much more racist, but it wouldn’t be the first time liberals were full of crap about something. Actually the real stunner would be if there was some scientific evidence that liberals were right about something.
Daniel J. Hopkins and Samantha Washington of the University of Pennsylvania conducted research to measure the anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice among 2,500 randomly selected Americans since 2008. What they found was that there was no measurable drop in racist attitudes during the Obama years but that racism went way the hell down since Trump took office.
These researchers entered into the study figuring that Trump would have caused a huge spike in racism, which is a pretty shitty way to start scientific research, but they came away with the conclusion that Trump is making America less racist.
Spectator USA reports:
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’.
Yet the study found exactly the opposite. 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. But then after 2016 it took a sharp dive that was statistically significant. Moreover, contrary to their expectations, the fall was as evident among Republican voters as it was among Democrats.
Okay, most people are going to look at this and say, “gosh racism dropped among Republicans since Trump took office” but what sticks out to me is that everyone is kind of ignoring that it dropped with democrats too. Aren’t democrats supposed to be non-racist? Also, why were democrats so damn racist when Obama was president, but now that Trump is president, they’ve eased of the bigotry? I think the the real story here is that democrats are racists.
Obviously liberals are going to be upset that their beloved science has proven that Trump isn’t making the country racist and to a lessor extent that there’s some solid data that they are racist AF, but don’t fret, these academics have come up with some liberal excuses for this:
It is possible, they write ‘that Trump’s rhetoric clarified anti-racist norms….given that the declines in prejudice appear concentrated in the period after Trump’s election, it seems quite plausible that it was not simply Trump’s rhetoric but also his accession to the presidency that pushed public opinion in the opposite direction’.
You got that? Trump is so freakin’ racist that it’s making everyone else repulsed by it and causing them to be less racist.
But wait, there’s an even better line of bullshit:
Maybe social science has got it the wrong way round: it was the sight of a mixed race man in the White House who brought out in the inner racist in Americans who are inclined towards those feelings, while the reassuring sight of white man back in the Oval Office has calmed them down.
Yup, Americans are so racist they couldn’t stand the sight of a black guy in the White House, but now that it’s back to a white guy they like minorities better. This is actually the liberal argument for the great economy under Trump’s presidency. They say Obama laid all the groundwork for the economic boom and Trump is taking credit. Same deal with race: Obama primed the people to be less racist and now Trump is reaping all of the benefits.
I don’t mean to be a nitpicky Ned, but there is one glaring flaw in this study: President Trump’s racism is all based on liberal media lies and doesn’t actually exist. Everything the left claims represents Trump’s racism is taking his comments out of context or straight up lying. Imaginary things can’t have an influence on reality.
Still, racism is down with Trump at the helm so MALRA, bitches! It’s science.
