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mia

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Sun Apr 11, 2021, 07:18 PM Apr 2021

Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?

Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence?
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.

Apparently, Robert Pape was surprised.

Notwithstanding earlier research or the alarm raised in this and other forums, Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, expected, when he began studying the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, to find the rioters acted out of economic anxiety. His anticipation, he told The New York Times recently, was that as he delved into the demographics of 377 people who had been arrested or charged, he would quantify the riot as an aftershock of the 2008 recession.

It didn’t turn out that way.

In his initial findings, detailed in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Pape determined the rioters to be 95 percent white, 85 percent male, middle and upper middle class, and — significantly — to hail mostly from counties where the white population is shrinking fastest and the non-white growing most aggressively. Such counties were six times more likely to produce rioters than counties where demographic change was least dramatic, a disparity that held even when controlled for various variables.

Coincidence? Pape says the chances are less than one in a thousand. So assuming his findings hold, we may conclude that, while there was anxiety here, economics had nothing to do with it. This anxiety was racial....


https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article250531264.html
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Why is anyone still shocked that fear propels white hostility and violence? (Original Post) mia Apr 2021 OP
While I think fear motivates some Republican voters.... TheRealNorth Apr 2021 #1
K&R uponit7771 Apr 2021 #2
We live in a white supremacy. Once you understand that, everything else becomes clear. WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #3

TheRealNorth

(9,435 posts)
1. While I think fear motivates some Republican voters....
Sun Apr 11, 2021, 08:33 PM
Apr 2021

When it comes to the alt right I think its hate and a desire for power.

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