Came across this headline in my ongoing snooping at Yahoo News.
I have been exploring and looking deeper into wingnut media, tolerating the vast and venal stupidity that characterizes America's rightwing idiocy and saw the headline.
My first thought wwas "Oh, surprise, rightwing media outlet studies itself".
AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.
Those views could cost President Barack Obama votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some Americans' more favorable views of blacks.
Doc's translation: Some Americans have become MORE expressive of racial views since a black man was elected to the white house. Those Americans were racist BEFORE Obama was elected (by a comfortable majority and without the GOP aid of hackable machines).
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.
"As much as we'd hope the impact of race would decline over time ... it appears the impact of anti-black sentiment on voting is about the same as it was four years ago," said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University professor who worked with AP to develop the survey.
Let's see: the constant, uninterrupted hate-filled racist broadcasts of O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, and a multitude of FOX "news-like entertainment product" - the entire rightwing noise machine - The Mighty Wurlitzer - is right at the root of this.
I think that there are an AWFUL LOT of very racist Americans. I do NOT believe that MOST Americans are racist.
I do believe that AP is heinously biased towards rightwing values and themes and that their polling will access the same 'people' that give them their relatively inaccurate polling on Obama vs Rmoney.
I also think this 'study' is a reinforcement for those people to express those attitudes and to feel like they are 'right' in their perspectives.
At Yahoo, 2 kinds of comments get me hidden by the wingnuts: 1 is to point out the endless rightwing media influence and to call them racists.
God, they hate being called racists.
It's almost like being a "racist" is bad.