Yeah, I'm in agreement with you about that one. The Saudis have been accused of war crimes in Yemen for years now, but one journalist and it's front page news?

. Supposedly the genetic segments place her ancestor six to ten generations ago.

Jordan Peterson must be pandering pretty hard to his US audience if he's publicly claiming to have native ancestry, because he sure ain't pandering to his Canadian one.

ya no he was made an honorary native rumor has it

In Alberta an "honorary native" is anybody so bored, poor, and persecuted that they drink a quart of vanilla extract because they have literally nothing else to do.

What do they call it when you **** people over and blame your political opponents for doing it? It's gotta have a name.

The percentage of Democrats who say they are moderate has fallen from 44 to 35; the percentage of self-identified conservative Democrats has gone from 25 to 13 percent.

Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward. According to Gallup, the share of white Democrats calling themselves liberal on social issues has grown since 2001 from 39 to 61 percent. Because of this growth, white liberals are now roughly 40 percent of all Democratic voters.

While a substantial percentage of Democratic minorities identify as liberals, those percentages have not been growing at anywhere near the rate that they have for white Democrats, so blacks and Hispanics have not contributed significantly to the rising percentage of self-identified Democratic liberals. Over the past 17 years, for example, the percentage of black Democrats who identify themselves as liberals grew by a modest three percentage points, according to both Gallup and the Pew Research Center.

In fact, white liberals are well to the left of the black electorate on some racial issues.

Take the issue of discrimination as a factor holding back African-American advancement. White liberals are to the left of black Democrats, placing a much stronger emphasis than African-Americans on the role of discrimination and much less emphasis on the importance of individual effort.

Among white liberals, according to Pew survey data collected in 2017, 79.2 percent agreed that “racial discrimination is the main reason why many black people can’t get ahead these days.” 18.8 percent agreed that “blacks who can’t get ahead in this country are mostly responsible for their own condition,” a 60.4 point difference, according to a detailed analysis of the Pew data provided the Times by Zach Goldberg, a doctoral candidate in political science at Georgia State University.

Among blacks, 59.9 percent identified discrimination as the main deterrent to upward mobility for African-Americans, and 32.0 percent said blacks were responsible for their condition — in other words, blacks are more conservative than white liberals on this issue.

White liberals view questions of racial inequality more uniformly than blacks do. A survey asked: Which statement comes closer to your own views even if neither is exactly right?

The dominant role of well-educated, relatively upscale white Democrats in moving the party to the left reflects the declining role of the working class in shaping the party’s ideology.

Anti-Jewish persecution under medieval Christianity gave Jewish populations in Europe a durable advantage in finance, which eventually extended to them having significant influence over business and warfare (the latter since warfare was generally funded through private debt). So maybe the Nazis “had a point” too but that would be a pretty ****ing dumb thing to say.

Or I dunno. Maybe the push toward liberalism among well educated people has a lot more to do with the business interests of their employers and their cosmopolitan coworkers. Uneducated people tend to support coal subsidies. Is that because uneducated people like coal, or is it because coal workers tend to be uneducated??

I suppose it's possible there's some kind of ideology/superstructure at work, and that upper middle class liberals are unwittingly pursuing the interests of the capitalist class because certain desires and mores have been inculcated in them through capitalist-run media. But, like, doy?

Gay, well-to-do, educated professionals in the coastal cities want to marry their girlfriends, smoke pot, and go backpacking in the national parks, and advance their own careers to management. And, I guess, say the right things about other things such as social justice, which liberals pay lip service to in polite conversation at the dinner table, and pretend to be coherent in doing so, even while clinging to their selfish, implicitly center-right economic views.

Woah, talk about a reductio ad Hitlerum.



I suppose it's possible there's some kind of ideology/superstructure at work, and that upper middle class liberals are unwittingly pursuing the interests of the capitalist class because certain desires and mores have been inculcated in them through capitalist-run media. But, like, doy?

What if conservatives actually have a point, and one reason why this push to the left is occurring has less to do with the fact that these well-educated people are educated, and more to do with the fact that they have been acculturated into the political atmosphere that currently dominate American universities?