The political bubble and how it affects your opinion

[Dill]

(07-26-2019, 01:58 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Who are these "experts"?  Inquiring minds want to know.

I've literally never heard of this site.  I wonder if they have an ideological leaning that may color the conclusions reached in the article you posted?


Is racism not racism?  The race of the person being subjected to it is not a predicator for it being a problem or not.  You have displayed, on several occasions and aversion to admitting white people can be subjected to, or the victims of racism.  Perhaps your own views, or bubble as it where, are affecting your acceptance of this article?

The author is a political scientist.

Remember my approach is to study the argument first. That's where one should be looking for "ideological leaning," not prejudging from sources, heard of or not.

It doesn't look like you are following the author's argument, which regards not "racism" in itself in some abstract sense, or whether white people can actually be discriminated against, but how various groups might respond to a question about "whether racism exists" with very different perceptions of who is discriminated against. So answers to a general question like "Is racism still a problem?" cannot sort out whether different group's perceptions of each other's perceptions are accurate or inaccurate. In any bubble affirming standards of scientific polling, that would be the case regardless of politics.

If my "views" on whites as victims of racism affect my acceptance of this article, then that should be demonstrable. Not simply expressed as a guess or a hope. That's how it works in my bubble, at least.