Okay, well, I don't really get the joke on that meme, but I assume it was written to titillate you, not me. In any event, like I say, I'm no longer burdened by the expectation that the problem can be fixed through conversation with people who want somewhat similar social outcomes, so best of luck to you.
As for the media stuff, depending on when you're watching it, Fox News varies from the "traditional right" to the crazy far right, and MSNBC does as well on the left, though not to an equivalent degree, I suppose. The stuff that leaked from inside the New York Times after the Bari Weiss tweet is essentially the culture I'm describing. I think it's a stretch to suggest that the New York Times is alone there, even though on the whole, they publish a lot of very well considered and sober material. I can't imagine what's flying around the internal communications platform at somewhere like the Guardian.
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Originally Posted by opendoor
As for the rest of the report, I don't know that it's all that surprising.
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Here are some of the items that I considered surprising or at minimum interesting.
- 40% of female respondents sided with "today's feminists just attack men" over "today's feminists fight for important issues"
- Moderates and the politically disengaged are split about 50-50 on the proposition, "Nowadays white people do not have any real advantages over others".
- The general population is more or less evenly split over whether Police are fair to people of every race.
- Even significant chunks of traditional liberals and passive liberals responded that America needs more faith and religion rather than science and reason (FFS)
- The median on whether Islam is more violent than other religions is just 33% (which seems like a far more left-leaning average than other questions in the poll)
- Literally every group has a stronger positive response towards women than men, with "traditional conservatives" the closest to an equal response
- The progressive activist group is by far the highest response on how dangerous they see the world as (which dovetails with much of what Haidt and Pinker have to say)
- Every racial respondent group had a majority response that people are too sensitive about race, except for black respondents, who went overwhelmingly the other way
- A significant majority of women responded that sexism was neither "very common" nor "very serious"
- In terms of racial preferences, nearly every group had a fairly positive view of whites, hispanics and blacks, except BLM supporters and Clinton supporters (who were majority negative on whites and to lukewarm about hispanics) and Trump supporters, who somehow were negative about all three.
- More than 50% of respondents think pro football players should be required to stand during the anthem, including 68% of the "politically disengaged". That is way more than I'd have thought.
- Two thirds of respondents see social pressure in america to think a certain way about racism and islam, which doesn't hold on the topics of immigration or LGBTQ issues (which is a 50-50 split)
If I would have guessed at the numbers on any of those, I think I might have come up with a different answer.