white applicants were three times more likely to be admitted to selective schools than Asian applicants with the exact same academic record.
the degree to which white people emphasized merit for college admissions changed depending on the racial minority group, and whether they believed test scores alone would still give them an upper hand against a particular racial minority.
As a result, the study suggests that the emphasis on merit has less to do with people of color's abilities and more to do with how white people strategically manage threats to their position of power from nonwhite groups.
There are more qualified college applications from women, who generally get higher grades and account for more than 70% of the valedictorians nationwide. Seeking to create some level of gender balance, many colleges accept a higher percentage of the applications they receive from males than from females.
Opinion of Syrian airstrikes under Obama vs. Trump.
Data on just the effect of the billionaires behind Fox News:
A 2010 Stanford University survey found "more exposure to Fox News was associated with more rejection of many mainstream scientists' claims about global warming, [and] with less trust in scientists".[75]
A 2011 Kaiser Family Foundation survey on U.S. misperceptions about health care reform found that Fox News viewers had a poorer understanding of the new laws and were more likely to believe in falsehoods about the Affordable Care Act such as cuts to Medicare benefits and the death panel myth.[76]
In 2011, a study by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that New Jersey Fox News viewers were less well informed than people who did not watch any news at all.
67% of Fox viewers believed that the "U.S. has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al Qaeda terrorist organization" (compared with 56% for CBS, 49% for NBC, 48% for CNN, 45% for ABC, 16% for NPR/PBS).
“rampant misinformation” about the healthcare reform bill before Congress — derided on the right as “Obamacare.” It also found that Fox News viewers were much more likely to believe this misinformation than average members of the general public.
Photocopied memos instructed the network's on-air anchors and reporters to use positive language when discussing pro-life viewpoints, the Iraq War, and tax cuts, as well as requesting that the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal be put in context with the other violence in the area.[84] Such memos were reproduced for the film Outfoxed, which included Moody quotes such as, "The soldiers [seen on Fox in Iraq] in the foreground should be identified as 'sharpshooters,' not 'snipers,' which carries a negative connotation."
John Ehrlichman, who worked with Fox News cofounder Roger Ailes on these strategies:
[We] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
"He was the premier guy in the business," says former Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins. "He was our Michelangelo."
Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993.
Hillarycare was to have been funded, in part, by a $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes. To block the proposal, Big Tobacco paid Ailes to produce ads highlighting “real people affected by taxes.”
Atwater, who partnered with Roger Ailes on the "Southern Strategy" to get the South to vote Republican:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "N----r, n----r, n----r."
By 1968 you can't say "n----r" — that hurts you. Backfires.
So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.
Lyndon Johnson in 1960 describing these tactics:
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
the power of what he called “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and they could be radicalized in a kind of populist, nationalist way
SaysThreeWords on September 21st, 2019 at 11:29 UTC »
Yes its true
rightwingdings on September 21st, 2019 at 12:48 UTC »
The polling data is accurate and is in the fact check source from OP:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/12/18/agrabah-aladdin-republican-poll/
More examples and data:
Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man The Mythical Connection Between Immigrants and CrimeMore data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/04/the-blackwhite-marijuana-arrest-gap-in-nine-charts/
Do white people want merit-based admissions policies? Depends on who their competition is. Who benefits from discriminatory college admissions policies? White males Opinion of Syrian airstrikes under Obama vs. Trump.Democrats:
38% supported Obama doing it
37% support Trump doing it
Republicans:
22% supported Obama doing it
86% support Trump doing it
The privilege of "economic anxiety" not racism:
Imgur version with graphs and sources: https://imgur.com/a/YZMyt
Data on just the effect of the billionaires behind Fox News:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies#Tests_of_knowledge_of_Fox_viewers
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/08/19/4431138-first-thoughts-obamas-good-bad-news
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversies#Internal_memos_and_e-mail
John Ehrlichman, who worked with Fox News cofounder Roger Ailes on these strategies:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525
Atwater, who partnered with Roger Ailes on the "Southern Strategy" to get the South to vote Republican:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Adam McKay:
Lyndon Johnson in 1960 describing these tactics:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/11/13/what-a-real-president-was-like/d483c1be-d0da-43b7-bde6-04e10106ff6c/
Steve Bannon bragging about these tactics today:
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-white-gamers-seinfeld-joshua-green-donald-trump-devils-bargain-sarah-palin-world-warcraft-gamergate-2017-7
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness-troll-army-world-warcraft/489713001/
How they try to do the same thing on Reddit:
https://i.imgur.com/uL9hhUg.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/efvQqve
https://imgur.com/a/yeP9T6S
https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84
adam_west_ on September 21st, 2019 at 12:49 UTC »
Very fine people, agrabhians , both sides, many people have said.