Originally Posted by ironyusa
Wow this has really devolved.
PBJosh, a few pages back, that is an interesting opinion by Mona Charon, who unfortunately has a biased base like most people though. I would counter that with a different opinion and here is my logic behind it.
I would like to put a face on White Supremacy, call it the KKK. Back then the Klan voted for Democrats, we dont know who exactly was a member and how exactly they voted but I would hope we can agree that it seems logical that they would side with the party that pushed for laws and regulations that benefited white people at the time.
Recently the Klan has been voting republican in my opinion, based off of recent articles about them supporting republican candidates. In my opinion that seems that the racists have switched teams, whether the republicans wanted their support or not, they have it from what I can tell, which leads me to believe that not every Republican is a White Supremacist but I would be willing to believe that every White Supremacist is a Republican.
Now with the Haidt example again I really dont understand how he can develop such a pie chart, I read up a little on what he was doing and it seemed to be a rating system based on a series of questions. To me he is trying to make correlations from something that has way too many variables to ever be accurate. How can one truly quantify data like that and try to make it a hard fact? It doesn't even make sense in the current scope of how we define the party lines. The Democrats are supposed to be "Liberals" or "Progresives" I guess from the graph yet the "Conservative" or Republican party generally yells about the government taking liberties from them while the graphs that have the larger slices of Liberty in them are not complaining about it. The model does not seem to fit correctly with the current political environment, I cannot personally see how this theory is useful right now.
And to everyone preaching that racism dies with the boomer's, I think that way of thinking is way too wishful. The boomer's had kids, who they raised, and hold similar values as their parent before them. Racism like most things will be passed down. If you look at that rally in the Carolinas, I did not see many boomer era people, as one example of this being wishful thinking. Racism will be an issue probably forever, I hate to say it but it is almost a natural thing bread from human competition and stereotypes. Stereotypes are usually easy statements made to highlight the difference between cultures, many people not knowing how to interact with someone will resort to stereotyping to try and be better then the other person, it isn't a smart way to try and win at whatever you are trying to do but it is an easy out to help someone feel superior or to make a judgement before they interact with someone, and that is something that I cant see changing really until we are all one completely homogeneously mixed race and culture, which is still a ways off.
