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https://www.wsj.com/articles/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-fhfa-housing-finance-agency-racial-favoritism-equity-biden-bubble-market-redlining-mortgage-lending-11655059

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-fhfa-housing-finance-agency-racial-favoritism-equity-biden-bubble-market-redlining-mortgage-lending-11655059365 https://www.wsj.com/articles/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-fhfa-hou... Stuff like this is rampant right now. The left has thoroughly won the culture war.

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- runarberg 4y ago
  Leaving aside the inherent bias of asking the general public whether they support a vague and/or nuanced issue, and also leaving aside these extremely narrow cherry picked issues. Where did you get the data showing that Americans do not support this?
  - _-david-_ 4y ago
    >The poll—which surveyed 1,503 people across the country between May 4 through 17—found 55% of Americans don’t believe transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete in high school sports. >Almost 60% of those surveyed were opposed to transgender women and girls’ participation in college and professional sports. >Americans were less likely to oppose transgender women and girls’ participation in youth sports, with about a third of those surveyed saying transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete, while 17% said they did not have an opinion. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/only-3-in-10-americans-support-trans-athletes-e2-80-99-participation-in-female-sports-poll-finds/ar-AAYrSFj https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/only-3-in-10-americans-sup... >According to the poll, roughly two-thirds of Republicans now believe “parents should be allowed to sue school districts if teachers discuss sexual orientation [70%] or gender identity [66%] when teaching children in kindergarten through grade three.” Independents agree (46% and 47% percent, respectively) more often than not (34% and 36%). And a significant minority of Democrats concur as well (25%, 22%) or aren’t sure (16%, 17%). And keep in mind that is not people who have read the bill, so they could be basing it on the name. https://news.yahoo.com/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-floridas-dont-say-gay-policy-214144683.html https://news.yahoo.com/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-flor... This is when people read the bill >When registered voters were shown the actual language of the bill, which prohibits age or developmentally inappropriate sexual education in pre-K through third grade, they supported it by more than a two-to-one margin. >Overall, 61 percent of voters supported the text of the bill. Just 26 percent were opposed. https://spectatorworld.com/topic/poll-americans-support-text-dont-say-gay-bill-parental-rights/ https://spectatorworld.com/topic/poll-americans-support-text...
    - runarberg 4y ago
      I did some vetting on these opinion polls. Your first two seem legitimate. Although I hope you keep in mind the wording of the questions here and the varying levels of nuance that people put into before they answer on a 5 point likert scale. For example the “don’t say gay” bill opinion poll by youGov is not asking about support for the bill, but rather if they should be allowed to sue school districts under certain conditions. You might be in full opposition to the bill in question but still feel like you should always have the right to sue. This is like three levels down from the main focus of the poll and the respondents will read differently into the question, with nuance which doesn’t translate into a 5 point likert scale. Now for your third poll, it was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies which is a republican pollster. The news source you gave me was written by Amber Athey, a senior fellow of the Steamboat Institute, which is a conservative think tanks that promotes American Exceptionalism and other nationalistic conservative values. I personally don’t put much faith in polls such as these. Now this is all aside from the fact that these are cherry picked examples. This is hardly proof that “The left is being decimated on the trans and sexual related issue”.

_-david-_ 4y ago

runarberg 4y ago
Leaving aside the inherent bias of asking the general public whether they support a vague and/or nuanced issue, and also leaving aside these extremely narrow cherry picked issues. Where did you get the data showing that Americans do not support this?
- _-david-_ 4y ago
  >The poll—which surveyed 1,503 people across the country between May 4 through 17—found 55% of Americans don’t believe transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete in high school sports. >Almost 60% of those surveyed were opposed to transgender women and girls’ participation in college and professional sports. >Americans were less likely to oppose transgender women and girls’ participation in youth sports, with about a third of those surveyed saying transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete, while 17% said they did not have an opinion. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/only-3-in-10-americans-support-trans-athletes-e2-80-99-participation-in-female-sports-poll-finds/ar-AAYrSFj https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/only-3-in-10-americans-sup... >According to the poll, roughly two-thirds of Republicans now believe “parents should be allowed to sue school districts if teachers discuss sexual orientation [70%] or gender identity [66%] when teaching children in kindergarten through grade three.” Independents agree (46% and 47% percent, respectively) more often than not (34% and 36%). And a significant minority of Democrats concur as well (25%, 22%) or aren’t sure (16%, 17%). And keep in mind that is not people who have read the bill, so they could be basing it on the name. https://news.yahoo.com/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-floridas-dont-say-gay-policy-214144683.html https://news.yahoo.com/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-flor... This is when people read the bill >When registered voters were shown the actual language of the bill, which prohibits age or developmentally inappropriate sexual education in pre-K through third grade, they supported it by more than a two-to-one margin. >Overall, 61 percent of voters supported the text of the bill. Just 26 percent were opposed. https://spectatorworld.com/topic/poll-americans-support-text-dont-say-gay-bill-parental-rights/ https://spectatorworld.com/topic/poll-americans-support-text...
  - runarberg 4y ago
    I did some vetting on these opinion polls. Your first two seem legitimate. Although I hope you keep in mind the wording of the questions here and the varying levels of nuance that people put into before they answer on a 5 point likert scale. For example the “don’t say gay” bill opinion poll by youGov is not asking about support for the bill, but rather if they should be allowed to sue school districts under certain conditions. You might be in full opposition to the bill in question but still feel like you should always have the right to sue. This is like three levels down from the main focus of the poll and the respondents will read differently into the question, with nuance which doesn’t translate into a 5 point likert scale. Now for your third poll, it was conducted by Public Opinion Strategies which is a republican pollster. The news source you gave me was written by Amber Athey, a senior fellow of the Steamboat Institute, which is a conservative think tanks that promotes American Exceptionalism and other nationalistic conservative values. I personally don’t put much faith in polls such as these. Now this is all aside from the fact that these are cherry picked examples. This is hardly proof that “The left is being decimated on the trans and sexual related issue”.