{"id":764,"date":"2012-12-13T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2012-12-13T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T03:10:10","slug":"ap-to-america-you-are-all-raaacist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/13\/ap-to-america-you-are-all-raaacist\/","title":{"rendered":"AP To America: &#8220;You Are All RAAACIST!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/politics\/2019538293_apusappollracialattitudes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, you, dear reader, are a RAAACIST if you happen to be white. \u00a0According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/comm.stanford.edu\/faculty\/krosnick\/docs\/2012\/2012%20Voting%20and%20Racism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>online<\/em> survey<\/a> taken by the AP, which purported to measure <em>explicit<\/em> and <em>implicit<\/em> racism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The AP also declared that &#8220;most Americans expressed anti-Hispanic sentiments, too. In an AP survey done in 2011, 52 percent of non-Hispanic whites expressed anti-Hispanic attitudes. That figure rose to 57 percent in the implicit test. The survey on Hispanics had no past data for comparison.&#8221;\u00a0 The racism, of course, is declared to be harbored by Republicans, who clearly would never support blacks like Allen West, Tim Scott, or Mia Love; or who would never support Hispanics like Brian Sandoval or Susan Martinez&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, East Asian individuals were considered &#8220;neutral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-765\" title=\"225px-Neutral_President\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/225px-Neutral_President.jpg\" alt=\"Tell my wife &quot;'\u4f60\u597d&quot;\" width=\"225\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> Pictured, the AP&#8217;s view of Asians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This survey is the perfect example of bias confirmation, wherein the left declares that white people are <a title=\"Sun-Tzu &amp; The Progressives\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/11\/09\/sun-tzu-the-progressives\/\" target=\"_blank\">necessarily<\/a> <a title=\"The Path Ahead To Save America\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/11\/10\/the-path-ahead-to-save-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">racist<\/a>, and then construct a survey to confirm their own bias.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For example, some of the questions asked are hardly racist at all, as <a href=\"http:\/\/sweasel.com\/archives\/10851\" target=\"_blank\">S. Weasel<\/a> clearly shows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So I tracked down the actual survey. It\u2019s a joint product of the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the University of Chicago. Here\u2019s the first question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Irish, Italians, Jews, and other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without special favors.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you agree with that, you\u2019re scored as a racist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let that sink in a minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you think black people are just as smart and capable as Irish, Italians and Jews, you\u2019re a racist. Phwaw. Ready? Question two:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Generations of slavery have created conditions that make it difficult for Blacks to work their way out of the lower class.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disagree with that, and you\u2019re a racist. So if you think someone\u2019s prospects are not blighted by something horrible that happened to his great-great-great grandparents, there\u2019s just no other explanation for it: you\u2019re a racist, sugar! The next three questions are pretty much variations on the \u201chard work = get ahead\u201d theme from the first question.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The &#8220;<em>implicit<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203335504578086692594695654.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h\" target=\"_blank\">part<\/a> of the survey is just as problematic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What about &#8216;implicit racism&#8217;? Has anyone ever experienced this in real life? No&#8211;by definition, because if it is experienced, it&#8217;s no longer &#8216;implicit.&#8217; Can we really infer anything from people&#8217;s feelings about &#8220;an image of a Chinese character&#8221;? (Logograph? Cartoon? The article doesn&#8217;t even say.) These tests &#8216;measure&#8217; a phenomenon that may not even exist, much less be quantifiable. The notion of &#8216;implicit racism&#8217; is a political opinion dressed up as a scientific hypothesis.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rather then show bias against those who are black or Hispanic, these questions seem to indicate that people believe that those who are black and\/or Hispanic <em>are capable<\/em> of success.\u00a0 Much like with their view of women, it is the Progressive left that is bigoted, and indeed, racist.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the Associated Press, you, dear reader, are a RAAACIST if you happen to be white. \u00a0According to the online survey taken by the AP, which purported to measure explicit and implicit racism: &#8221; In all, 51 percent of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/13\/ap-to-america-you-are-all-raaacist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[22,86],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-fail","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}