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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYes, Donald Trump Is Making White People More Hateful
https://www.thenation.com/article/yes-donald-trump-is-making-white-people-more-hateful/. . .
a new, as yet unpublished study presented to the Midwest Political Science Association last month suggests that theres a causal relationship between Trumps demagoguery and those reports of racialized abuses. Brian Schaffner, a scholar at UMass Amherst, found empirical evidence that Trumps rhetoric did indeed lead non-Hispanic whites to express more bigoted views of the other.
Shortly before the 2016 election, Schaffner randomly divided almost 1,200 non-Hispanic white respondents into four groups. He showed one, the control group, three relatively anodyne statements made by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the course of the campaign. The second group was given the same three statements, and also shown an excerpt of Trumps infamous Mexican-rapists speech. A third group saw a different inflammatory statement that had been tweeted by Trump: Our great African-American President hasnt exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore. And the final group was shown all five.
Schaffner then asked respondents to say something in their own words about African Americans, Mexicans, white people, politicians, the middle class, and millennials. (One tricky part of conducting a study like this is you have to avoid tipping off your subjects about what youre looking for. So Schaffner presented the survey as an attempt to gauge how closely respondents were paying attention to the campaign. The inclusion of the middle class and millennials helped hide the purpose of the experiment.)
The results were surprising. Respondents who were exposed to Trumps comments about thugs in Baltimore werent affected by that inflammatory statement to a significant degree, but those who read his tirade about Mexicans were. They made significantly more negative comments about the groups in question than those who only saw more conventional campaign rhetoric. Eight-hundred people were recruited to rate the comments on a scale from very negative to very positive, and Schaffner averaged out the results.
The finding here that I think is really interesting, Schaffner told me, is that Trumps language [about Mexicans] doesnt just embolden people to say more negative and more offensive things about the group hes talking about, but it actually leads them to say more offensive things about all groups. Schaffner thinks this pattern is likely due to the fact that the quote about Mexicans is particularly offensive.
Interestingly, this Trump Effect was about equal for whites who backed Trump and those who supported Clinton.
a new, as yet unpublished study presented to the Midwest Political Science Association last month suggests that theres a causal relationship between Trumps demagoguery and those reports of racialized abuses. Brian Schaffner, a scholar at UMass Amherst, found empirical evidence that Trumps rhetoric did indeed lead non-Hispanic whites to express more bigoted views of the other.
Shortly before the 2016 election, Schaffner randomly divided almost 1,200 non-Hispanic white respondents into four groups. He showed one, the control group, three relatively anodyne statements made by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the course of the campaign. The second group was given the same three statements, and also shown an excerpt of Trumps infamous Mexican-rapists speech. A third group saw a different inflammatory statement that had been tweeted by Trump: Our great African-American President hasnt exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore. And the final group was shown all five.
Schaffner then asked respondents to say something in their own words about African Americans, Mexicans, white people, politicians, the middle class, and millennials. (One tricky part of conducting a study like this is you have to avoid tipping off your subjects about what youre looking for. So Schaffner presented the survey as an attempt to gauge how closely respondents were paying attention to the campaign. The inclusion of the middle class and millennials helped hide the purpose of the experiment.)
The results were surprising. Respondents who were exposed to Trumps comments about thugs in Baltimore werent affected by that inflammatory statement to a significant degree, but those who read his tirade about Mexicans were. They made significantly more negative comments about the groups in question than those who only saw more conventional campaign rhetoric. Eight-hundred people were recruited to rate the comments on a scale from very negative to very positive, and Schaffner averaged out the results.
The finding here that I think is really interesting, Schaffner told me, is that Trumps language [about Mexicans] doesnt just embolden people to say more negative and more offensive things about the group hes talking about, but it actually leads them to say more offensive things about all groups. Schaffner thinks this pattern is likely due to the fact that the quote about Mexicans is particularly offensive.
Interestingly, this Trump Effect was about equal for whites who backed Trump and those who supported Clinton.
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Yes, Donald Trump Is Making White People More Hateful (Original Post)
CousinIT
May 2018
OP
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)1. Or maybe just validating existing hatefulness on the part of some
and giving them permission to express it.
cilla4progress
(24,724 posts)2. Aided by Russian bots
Bent on destabilizing our democracy.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)3. Selective Populism - the tool of fascists...
Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of viewone follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against rotten parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniplesmaniples being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.
Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism New York Review of Books (1995)