White conservatives confuse loss of cultural dominance with actual oppression ...

[PsychoBabble]

Last edited Wed Mar 15, 2017, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)

They aren't OPPRESSED ... just not IN CHARGE any more.

The trends that are making white evangelicals nervous, Cox explained, are real enough. “We’re seeing, just during the Obama era, a significant drop in Americans who identify as white Christian,” he said. Instead, the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation or align themselves with a non-Christian religion are rising.

Trump didn’t need convince conservative Christians he was one of them to get their votes, Cox suggested. All he needed to do was to assure them that he saw them as a privileged category and would treat them as such.

“At a time when white evangelical Protestants were really feeling under assault culturally, you had someone pugnaciously saying, ‘You know, we’re going to turn back the clock to a place where you were so much more comfortable and you had more influence,'” Cox said. He noted that Trump won an even bigger share of the white evangelical vote than even George W. Bush, even though the latter was indisputably a person of faith fluent with white evangelical traditions.

The PRRI survey shows that many white people, especially white conservatives, are confusing the loss of cultural dominance with actual oppression. While nearly every other group of Americans believes that Muslims face more discrimination than Christians in the United States, white evangelicals believe the reverse is true.

What happens when your whole worldview is based upon BELIEF vs. EVIDENCE ...

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/americans-are-more-secular

(just added link, sorry about that)

[stopbush]

1. As in, make believe, instead of evidence.

[nocalflea]

2. I wonder what the early Christian martyrs world think of this group ?

[lapucelle]

3. That's a great headline.

I would, however, make one editorial change:

White conservative men confuse loss of cultural dominance with actual oppression.

It helps explain the glee with which they chanted "lock her up" and "Trump that bitch" and the unbridled support they gave to a confirmed and unapologetic sexist.

[SaschaHM]

5. White conservative women didn't seem to have a problem with chanting those things or Trump.

[lapucelle]

6. Many believe that they derive their power and status from the men in their lives,

as God and nature intended.

[Angry Dragon]

4. you end up an ignorant idiot

[hatrack]

7. Or (rephrasing): What happens when your whole worldview is based on BULLSHIT

[leftstreet]

8. Is this from an article somewhere?

Thx

[MrScorpio]

9. "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality seems like oppression"

https://theboeskool.com/2016/03/05/when-youre-accustomed-to-privilege-equality-feels-like-oppression/

[Skittles]

10. they think they are better than THOSE people

that's the root of all racism, the superiority complex