[Crimson Dynamo]

A study shows that racism has measurably decreased during President Trump’s time in the Oval Office, reports the Spectator.



Daniel J. Hopkins and Samantha Washington, two University of Pennsylvania sociologists, have been conducting a running
study that measures the racial attitudes of 2,500 randomly selected Americans since 2008.

In their most recent report, the academics admit they expected to see an increase in racist opinions among the group, stating,
“Normalization of prejudice or opinion leadership both lead us to expect that expressed prejudice may have increased in this period,
especially among Republicans or Trump supporters.”

Instead…

What they found is a decrease in racism under Trump:

Americans, claim Hopkins and Washington, have actually become less inclined to express racist opinions since Donald Trump was elected.
Anti-black prejudice, they found, declined by a statistically-insignificant degree between 2012 and 2016, when Trump was elected.
But then after 2016 it took a sharp dive that was statistically significant. Moreover, contrary to their expectations, the fall was as
evident among Republican voters as it was among Democrats. There was also a general fall in anti-Hispanic prejudice, too, although
this was more evident among Democrat voters.

But the obvious difference between racial attitudes under Trump and under Obama is that Trump is nowhere near as racially
divisive as Obama was.

Just as with Britain’s vote for Brexit, Trump’s strident language and his concentration on issues such as migration is supposed to
have coarsened political discourse – legitimizing racist and xenophobic opinions in people who might otherwise have been shamed into silence.
By this narrative, even slightly immoderate speeches, posters and campaigns by politicians become magnified through the lens of
public opinion into something much more sinister.

It is a similar story to that in Britain, where the attempt to link Brexit with rising xenophobia has been somewhat debunked.
A murder of a Polish man in the town of Harlow in August 2016 was widely attributed to Brexit – but eventually declared by police not to
have been a hate crime at all. Similarly, a smashed window in a Spanish restaurant in South London on the night of the Brexit vote was
initially widely reported to be an expression of euphoria on the part of xenophobes – but was later revealed to be an attempted burglary.


Over the past ten years, racial biases have become less pronounced in America. It is possible that its citizens are more tolerant
today than they have ever been before



https://spectator.us/racist-incidents-down-trump/
https://www.economist.com/united-sta...role-in-voting
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...a-less-racist/