A new national survey conducted by conservative think tank Manhattan Institute found that Millennial Republicans are more likely to call themselves racist than Baby Boomer Republicans.
A total of 34% of Republican survey respondents between the ages of 30 and 49 answered “I am such person” when asked for their views on individuals who openly express racist views. Only 3% of Republican survey respondents over the age of 65 answered “I am such person.”
A total of 23% of Republican survey respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 and 6% between the ages of 50 to 64 also answered “I am such person.”
I think this is also a reflection on self awareness.
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“Republicans are racist” ftfy
Why would a millennial identify as a boomer?
I’m not at all surprised by this, TBH. For all the dunking there is on boomers, they spent their formative years during the Civil Rights era, no?
And Gen Y (at least the younger ones) spent their formative years just when things like social media and forums and so on really got going. Where people are and have been trying to curate and groom more white supremacists. Often behind screen names, etc…
It’s not that boomers aren’t racist, they just don’t believe they’re racist. Their version of racism is very narrow, basically limited to calling for the outright murder of all black people. Anything short of that is just “normal” in their eyes.
Millenials have grown up with a more nuanced definition, though, so those racists understand that they’re racist and also know how to hide and obscure it.
There is much more nuance these days. Some anti-racist literature even says that we are all racist but that we can work on not being prejudice. These books will say that part of being anti-racist is seeing that racism exists in lots of ways and that we shouldn’t be denying that these things exist, we should be working on reducing the harm from it.
This.
Seems obvious. Boomers are racist but dont even know it. Millennials who are racist choose to be.
Now ask both groups if they believe dinosaurs existed for millions of years.
Boomers aren’t racist in their own eyes because to them what they say is just the way it is. They didn’t make themselves better than all ‘those’ people. Its just the way things are. The flip side of that is I’ve heard some brown skin people make the same claims that they can’t be racist and only white folks can be racist. Far fewer of them though than these heaving slack jawed maga idiots I have to walk around in walmart because they are way too important to be polite.
So do we actually care anymore that being racist is the problem here or is it just finding new distractions such as intersectional infighting like ageism for hairs to split now?
Duh
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