Current Events > Study: Trumpanzees get Triggered when they see image of Black man in Housing..

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https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/8/16270040/trump-clinton-supporters-racist

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Study: Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man

All it takes to reduce support for housing assistance among Donald Trump supporters is exposure to an image of a black man.

That’s the takeaway from a new study by researchers Matthew Luttig, Christopher Federico, and Howard Lavine, set to be published in Research & Politics. In a randomized survey experiment, the trio of researchers exposed respondents to images of either a white or black man. They found that when exposed to the image of a black man, white Trump supporters were less likely to back a federal mortgage aid program. Favorability toward Trump was a key measure for how strong this effect was.

The study is just the latest to show that racial attitudes are a powerful predictor for support for Trump — and the newest to suggest that such attitudes play a major role in Americans’ views toward public policy. Previous studies have found that racial resentment was a much stronger indicator of support for Trump than views about the economy. And other research has shown that priming people to think about race can make them more conservative on a host of issues.

This latest study is notable, though, because all it uses is an image of a black man to produce its results. That suggests that Trump has a powerful incentive to get people to keep thinking about race: If his most ardent supporters just need a slight racial cue to come around to his conservative policy views, then Trump simply has to bring up race to get his supporters fired up for him.

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Very telling study. Please read the rest to learn moar..
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Does this sort of thing even qualify as news anymore
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inb4 "vox isn't a credible source"
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Yes, we know. Trump cornered the "angry white man" vote.
This is not news.

Not to be this guy, but those two should've been wearing the exact same outfit.

Don't get me wrong. I think white fear is the primary reason that Trump got elected. I'm not playing devil's advocate on behalf of him or his supporters. But Without any personal racial bias, I do think that the man in the second picture looks disheveled and ambitionless in comparison to the man in the first picture.

Skye Reynolds posted...

I think white fear is the primary reason that Trump got elected. I'm not playing devil's advocate on behalf of him or his supporters.

But, the "deplorables" were only about half, likely less after disappointed berniebros defected. "But Hillary!" was the primary reason.

Skye Reynolds posted...

Not to be this guy, but those two should've been wearing the exact same outfit.

Don't get me wrong. I think white fear is the primary reason that Trump got elected. I'm not playing devil's advocate on behalf of him or his supporters. But Without any personal racial bias, I do think that the man in the second picture looks disheveled and ambitionless in comparison to the man in the first picture.

Ugh. They fucked up the study. How does this shit even get approved? It seems like such a simple thing to control for those kinds of variables. The first one is even wearing glasses.

Maybe the point behind the study is true. But they fucked up the experiment.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

I think white fear is the primary reason that Trump got elected. I'm not playing devil's advocate on behalf of him or his supporters.

But, the "deplorables" were only about half, likely less after disappointed berniebros defected. "But Hillary!" was the primary reason.

I wonder what percentage of Berniebros would actually rather have Trump than Hillary though. Doesn't seem like it'd be a very significant %
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can i get a verrit code for this
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Trump people get triggered over everything they are special little snowflakes
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