found online by Raymond
From Iron Knee at Political Irony:
A new survey conducted by YouGov and The Economist teases out something that we have long suspected. Trump voters say that men are discriminated against more than gays, women, and ethnic minorities.
According to the result, the percentage of Trump voters who believe that the following groups face “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of discrimination in America today are:
- Men — 49%
- Hispanics — 42%
- LGBQT — 41%
- Blacks — 38%
- Women — 30%
I am interested in what they would say are the biggest examples of discrimination against men and how they would argue that they face more discrimination than other groups.
I have observed that men (fairly) tend to bring up divorce court results, child custody results, the draft, societal and legal reactions to sexual and violent abuse of and accusations against men, and harsher sentencing for the same crime as examples, but also higher rates of homelessness, injuries and deaths in dangerous industries dominated by men, and other cases that do not involve actual discrimination.
They also often think that any policies intended to counter discrimination against a minority group of which they are not a part are necessarily harmful to them. This can be true, but it is also intended to serve a good cause that they usually do not acknowledge is even necessary. I am surprised, then, that so many Trump supporters acknowledged discrimination against other groups in the same survey.*
And while they rightly point out the unfair expectations of masculinity, they seem to forget that they are the ones who do a majority of the work of setting and maintaining them when they aren’t complaining about them.
Conservatives and liberals may never see eye to eye on the subject of how to address discrimination against minorities, but it seems to me like the rest of the above is fair game. Even if others have it worse, mockery is inappropriate for legitimate grievances and only serves to confirm their fear that they are being ignored.
*All of these numbers are interesting to me for how high they are, but since the group was composed of both men and women, it stands out to me that 49% of them acknowledge discrimination against men while only 30% acknowledge it against women. Unfortunately, I don’t see a breakdown of Trump supporters by sex that would explain the difference.