In a
study of “dog-whistle politics” involving hundreds of white people by Brown and
Stanford University professors, respectively, Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, they
found that Donald Trump’s racism appears
to be particularly effective with self-identified liberals that harbor racial
resentment. These are the whites who voted
for Trump after having voted for Obama in the previous election (this article
references several studies since 2016 that
corroborate this).
That is,
the overtly racist messages do not impact as powerfully as the implicit ones,
particularly for resentful whites that perceive a loss of centrality in
society. As we know well, however,
whites still pretty much dominate the upper-echelons of society, but they are
vulnerable to manipulation which is what Trump is all about. He himself is in power and sees himself and “his
people” as “victims.”
This is a
preemptive political strike from within via dog-whistles, or coded language, that amounts to yet another ploy to
suppress the voices, perspectives, and needs of diverse communities.
-Angela
Valenzuela
Why Some White Liberals Will Probably
Vote For Donald Trump
A new study demonstrates that racist dog whistles work.
by Arthur Delany | Huffington Post 8.20.19
racism as a strategy to excite Republican voters,
may actually work better on certain self-identified
liberals. That’s the conclusion a pair of academic
with hundreds of white Americans earlier this year.
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