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Originally Posted by flameswin
I was claiming that older white guys (and yes I understand the generalization and addressed it) seem to be a little bigoted/racist/intolerant, and the younger people of today tend to be more socially liberal and in favour of gender/racial equality.
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It's a reasonable argument, one I don't know if I would necessarily disagree with as I've spent a lot of time in smaller farm towns in Alberta. However, statistically there's a bigger case to make that it's the youth that are discriminating against one another.
Here's a bunch of Hate-Crime statistics for Canada in 2011:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-.../11822-eng.htm
"Police-reported hate crime incidents are more likely to involve youth than crimes overall. Among hate-motivated mischief incidents, for example, youth between the age of 12 and 17 comprised 42% of accused compared to 21% for all mischief incidents. Among common assault offences that were hate motivated, youth represented 29% of accused, compared to 15% of accused in all crimes involving common assault."
Tends to suggest that it's youth that are more likely to commit a crime based on someone's ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion than their elder counterparts.
Of course you got to look at all the data and use some common sense in trying to put it together. An 80 year old racist cracker isn't going out clubbing on a Friday night and 'forced' to interact with minorities in the bar like his 20 year old racist counterpart. So even if they have the same racist tendencies the 20 year old is more likely to be in a situation where he will act on it but the numbers themselves do not point to our youth as being more accepting.
Here's a better breakdown of the chart:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-.../tbl07-eng.htm
Most telling is that for hate-crimes based on sexual orientation the accused are 70% likely to be under 25. Which does not seem to suggest youths are more socially liberal when it comes to sexual orientation.