Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it.

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The poll also found that the religious group that makes up the core of today’s GOP and MAGA movement has the highest structural racism measure among the demographics it surveyed

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Opinion | Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it.
The right refuses to give up its victimhood mentality.
4:59 AM · Sep 28, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/28/racism-survey-prri-maga-republicans/

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It has long been understood that the MAGA movement is heavily dependent on White grievance and straight-up racism. (Hence Donald Trump’s refusal to disavow racist groups and his statement that there were “very fine people on both sides” in the violent clashes at the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville.)

Now, we have numbers to prove it.

The connection between racism and the right-wing movement is apparent in a new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute. The survey asked respondents about 11 statements designed to probe views on racism. For example: “White Americans today are not responsible for
discrimination against Black people in the past.” The pollsters then used their answers to quantify a “structural racism index,” which provides a general score from zero to 1 measuring a person’s attitudes on “white supremacy and racial inequality, the impact of discrimination on African American economic mobility, the treatment of African Americans in the criminal justice system, general perceptions of race, and whether racism is still significant problem today.” Higher scores indicate a more receptive attitude to racist beliefs.

The results shouldn’t surprise anyone paying attention to the MAGA crowd’s rhetoric and veneration of the Confederacy. “Among all Americans, the median value on the structural racism index is 0.45, near the center of the scale,” the poll found. “The median score on the structural racism index for Republicans is 0.67, compared with 0.45 for independents and 0.27 for Democrats.” Put differently, Republicans are much more likely to buy into the notion that Whites are victims.

The poll also found that the religious group that makes up the core of today’s GOP and MAGA movement has the highest structural racism measure among the demographics it surveyed: “White evangelical Protestants have the highest median score, at 0.64, while Latter-day Saints, white Catholics, and white mainline Protestants each have a median of 0.55. By contrast, religiously unaffiliated white Americans score 0.33.” This is true even though Whites report far less discrimination toward them than racial minorities do.

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1. Tax cuts for the ruling class and racism

Pretty much sums up the party. I have been totally confident in saying racism was the biggest appeal tfg had/has.

Peace

[uponit7771]

2. Some ghoulishly evil shit man, but hey we need to "understand" they ass somehow

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3. More interviews of MAGAts in diners wearing traitor flags may be needed.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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4. yep