Trumps supporters believe a false narrative of white victimhood and the data proves it

[applegrove]

by Sean McElwee at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/12/trumps-supporters-believe-a-false-narrative-of-white-victimhood-and-the-data-proves-it/

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The right sees its political opposition as #triggered snowflakes who need a “safe space.” In the words of Trump’s chief strategist Stephen Bannon, “They’re either a victim of race. They’re victim of their sexual preference. They’re a victim of gender. All about victimhood and the United States is the great oppressor, not the great liberator.”

While Donald Trump and his ilk claim that victimhood is exclusive to the coastal, “politically correct” elite, I find that feelings of victimhood are central to Trump’s appeal. Trump supporters believe that whites and Christians face discrimination while people of color reap the benefits of government largess. Far from being concerned about “facts, not feelings,” Trump supporters and the conservative movement have created a false narrative of victimhood that motivates their supporters.

I examined “feeling thermometer” scores in the 2016 American National Election Studies (ANES) pilot survey (which asks respondents to rank politicians and groups from 0, meaning coldest feelings, to 100, meaning warmest feelings) to explore how they measured feelings for Trump among white respondents, based on their views of discrimination against whites and Christians.

Among whites who believe that white people face no discrimination, the mean feeling thermometer score for Trump was 25 (cold), compared to 64 (warm) among those who believe whites face a “great deal” of discrimination. Among whites who believe Christians face no discrimination, the average feeling thermometer score for Trump was 24, compared with 67 among those who believe Christians face “a great deal” of discrimination (see chart).


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[guillaumeb]

1. White people are worthy victims.

Non-white people receive all of the benefits.

And that summarizes what I have heard from more than a few white people.

[kimbutgar]

2. My husband has a nephew in Arizona who thinks he is discriminated against because he is

White. He blames his debts and not going to college because all the scholarships that help people only go to minorities. He once asked me how much scholarship money I got to go to college ( I am a light skinned black woman) I told him I worked all though college summers and part time. My parents helped me out paying for my dorm but I paid for my tuition and books. Then I told him I did take a student loan at 40 to get my teaching credential and paid it all back myself. I put decline to state in my student loan application also.

This your main is a typical right winger, negative, humorless and now lives with his mother at 31 years and no girlfriend because he is a downer person. But I feel sorry for the miserable kid.