A Majority of Americans are Bigots

[MadBadger]

Not sure I really learned that with this whole "Near Ground Zero Mosque" Bullshit, but it certainly confirmed it.

[Taverner]

1. Yes - this is true

Damn Americans think they have the RIGHT to FREEDOM OF RELIGION or something...

[JoePhilly]

2. That's why the GOP does what it does.

[NC_Nurse]

3. Yup. Wedge politics works.

[KansasVoter]

4. Religion makes people stupid. No logic involved.

[patrice]

5. And Bigotry makes you Stupid, because you already know all that you need to know.

[unblock]

6. a majority of american are (intellectually) LAZY and can be made to look like anything.

phrase the question one way or another, get a different image of americans.


try first asking the question "do you agree with this statement: our founders fled nations where governments imposed their official religions on their subjects to found a nation where all would be free to practice their own religion in their own way."

THEN ask them "do you support the right of peaceful american followers of islam to build a community center on the site of a building that was damaged in the september 11, 2001, attacks on the pentagon and new york city?"


obviously, this is at least as manipulative a set of questions as any others out there, but the point is obvious: the practice of polling can be highly manipulative and easily skewed to get the desired response. in fact, the entire concept of simply asking questions in a vaccuum is fairly stupid, at least if you're trying to get at the true nature of americans.

asking questions without any information simply tells you how informed they are or what they've already heard; not their considered opinion, and not what they would be inclined to believe and stick to once they had all the facts.

it's about as superficial as you can get.

[Xenotime]

7. Excellent observation.

[Hepburn]

8. No shit...

...I had an ex-husband I called the "equal opportunity bigot." Anyone was shit who was not:

1. Male
2. Southern
3. Southern Baptist
4. Southern Democrat
5. And, of course, pure white.

What a fucking pain in the butt...:puke:

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. there was a time when most Americans were anti-Semitic but that became unfashionable

there was a time when most American were racist against black people, but that become somewhat unfashionable

There was a time - not very long ago - when most Americans were deeply prejudiced against gay people, but that became at least considerably less fashionable than it once was.

But I guess that bigotry against Muslim people unfortunately remains quite fashionable.

I can only hope and pray that it time this prejudice will become less fashionable too.

[burnsei sensei]

10. Bigotry has always been part of American nationalism.

Americans have to make sure that there's something that the American identity is NOT.
They seem to have to define themselves in opposition to at least one thing, whether it's race or religion or whatever.

[closeupready]

11. Unfortunately, that's likely true.

n/t

[pscot]

12. Hating the Otherguy

comes naturally to us. I read it in the bible.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

13. You are showing anti-American bigotry...

The Majority of People are Bigots.

There is absolutely no evidence that this behavior is restricted to Americans.

There is plenty of evidence that Americans are less bigoted, as a culture, than people in many other world cultures.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[mmonk]

14. Where's your data?

[ConservativeDemocrat]

17. Google is your friend...

...or perhaps in your case, your enemy, since it appears you don't wish to admit the obvious.

Try the following keywords, and peruse the first couple of hits of each:

japanese racism
korean racism
chinese racism
african tribalism
russian racism
arab racism

And this is just a random sample. I mean seriously, you have to be willfully blind to miss this.

And we're not even talking about more subtle forms of bigotry, or misogyny, which runs rampant across many cultures.

Did you miss the Newsweek photo of the maimed Afghan teenager? The couple stoned to death by the Taliban for adultery?


- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[krabigirl]

15. I disagree, but I am disgusted with our media for continuing this non-story.

But anyway, many people in the world are bigoted, period. Just returned from an extended time in France and the anti-Muslim hysteria there is just as bad. :(

I still don't think it's the majority of people. It's just that the bigoted types are usually scared and louder.

[Whisp]

16. yes