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Isn't "it's okay to be white" a sort of a slogan used frequently by extremist groups? Maybe people meant to disagree with the usage and subtext of this expressi

Isn't "it's okay to be white" a sort of a slogan used frequently by extremist groups? Maybe people meant to disagree with the usage and subtext of this expression rather than the literal meaning? That's the problem with polls. People could be responding to a completely different question. In any case, it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll. To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known, take the results of one poll and spread extremely provocative messages is just incredible. Most people can draw only one conclusion out of this.

nhchris 4y ago
> it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll. That may be so, but an honest journalist would report both justification and conclusion, not just the latter, and let their readers decide. > To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known If their experiences are negative, disregarding them is celebrated: The ideal white response to non-white predation came from the Tibbetts family. Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student, was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2018. [..] [Her father] emphasized that his daughter would find anyone using her death to criticize illegal immigration as “profoundly racist.” The family was lionized by the press. - https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-if-the-hand https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-... > take the results of one poll You think he should base his views on more comprehensive violent crime statistics instead?
yucky 4y ago
> Isn't "it's okay to be white" a sort of a slogan used frequently by extremist groups? If people who say "it's okay to be white" are labeled extremists, then isn't the problem the people doing the labeling? Should anybody who thinks that is an extremist position be allowed to label anybody or anything?
marcod 4y ago
Polling for "It's okay to be white." surely does not feel neutral to me. And Rasmussen is known for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Evaluations_of_accuracy_and_performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Evaluations_...

nhchris 4y ago

> it's pretty drastic to base your ideology on one poll. That may be so, but an honest journalist would report both justification and conclusion, not just the latter, and let their readers decide. > To think one would disregard their real life experiences and all the individuals they have known If their experiences are negative, disregarding them is celebrated: The ideal white response to non-white predation came from the Tibbetts family. Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student, was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2018. [..] [Her father] emphasized that his daughter would find anyone using her death to criticize illegal immigration as “profoundly racist.” The family was lionized by the press. - https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-if-the-hand https://highlyrespected.substack.com/p/turn-the-other-cheek-... > take the results of one poll You think he should base his views on more comprehensive violent crime statistics instead?

yucky 4y ago

> Isn't "it's okay to be white" a sort of a slogan used frequently by extremist groups? If people who say "it's okay to be white" are labeled extremists, then isn't the problem the people doing the labeling? Should anybody who thinks that is an extremist position be allowed to label anybody or anything?

marcod 4y ago

Polling for "It's okay to be white." surely does not feel neutral to me. And Rasmussen is known for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Evaluations_of_accuracy_and_performance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Evaluations_...