Weiße Amerikaner, die das Gefühl haben, auf der Verliererseite der Politik zu stehen, sind eher gegen wirtschaftliche Umverteilungsprogramme. Eine Studie zeigt, dass dieser Effekt nur dann auftritt, wenn Menschen ihre politische Stellung direkt mit der von ethnischen Minderheiten vergleichen.
Political loser perceptions alter white American views on wealth distribution
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„If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, you can pick his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.“ -LBJ
As a non American… Why? Why? I seriously do not understand. Why do white americans oppose racial minorities so hardly? Like, all of you are Americans right? Why is it so poorly viewed to help those in real need? Why the inner separation? I seriously cannot wrap my head around this.
EDIT: Yikes man. -7 votes for a genuine question? Oof.
Considering the side that would be more likely to support redistribution programs lost and is currently losing, very badly, its kind of a strange way to phrase what the study is looking at.
Seems to be a rather hamfisted attempt at rewording something that already exists as an observable phenomena. Eg, this sounds like a rebrand for white replacement theory.
Obviously when you bring up racially-based redistributionism to people, it makes them like likely to be in favor of redistributive economics, since the position being argued over is literally ‚race based-affirmative action reparations‘ or not. And since the position is absurd, it’s rightfully opposed.
This is literally the Frankfurt school playbook. they couldn’t get the working class to overthrow the rich, so change the rules so their economic goal is framed as the oppressed minorities taking back what was stolen from them.
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What percentage of non white groups in America want to give gay people the basic right to get married which costs them nothing? 🙂
I’m a white American who feels I am on the losing side of politics and I would love the redistribution of wealth. And I want it to go to everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, you name it, as long as they have a need, it gets satisfied. This is the world we should be building, not a pay to play one.
MAGAt types have no problem with the nation’s wealth and resources being distributed to the wealthy elites.
This is a clear example of the difference between class based redistribution and race based redistribution.
Do the same experiment but poll black people and say the redistribution will go to poor white people in Appalachia. The same trends will emerge. It needs to be class based.
r/science needs to stop with the anti-white posts.
I havw anecdotal evidence even immigrants stop sympathizing with new immigrants pretty fast. It doesnt take long for people to only care about their own
This makes no sense because every White Lib I’ve ever met feels like they are on the losing side and that politics is rigged against them.
That’s crazy because the elite are the ones who are hoarsing the wealth
No one wants the short end of the stick, or to be told that repeatedly that their struggles are imagined or not as bad as someone else’s.
interesting take on political psychology
This is just exposing the major error by the democratic party over the last twenty to thirty years. Instead of making the issue class, which is what it should be, they focused on race/sex/orientation. The things they wanted to focus on, disproportionate poverty and disadvantage would have been addressed by a general platform organized around class. Instead the way it worked out individuals who have seen their quality of life decline steadily felt like they were left out. The posters here saying that this is racism are missing the issue. If you feel like your way of life is disintegrating constantly here that help needs to go to someone else, well you don’t want to help that other person when you are drowning. The inability to grasp this nuance, and it is clear many on the sub don’t, led to the current political bloc in power. Failing to recognize the issue, instead of just decrying that people are racist to feel morally superior, will just keep handing power/elections to Trump and his ilk.
Governments are always doing wealth redistribution, it’s just a matter of which way the funds are flowing.
Paraphrased from Sam Sedar.
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I wasn’t expecting the anger in the comments
„Who feel“
Because the reality is if you have to work, you are on the losing side of politics.
You’ve been pretty busy for an account that’s not even a couple weeks old
Pure slop
When you think you’re not in the same class as minorities you hear things „benefitting the working class“ and you just think brown people winning and you shut down all logic centers.
Racism is really an insane cheat code for oligarchs.
Why would you support policies that go directly against you it makes no sense. If one side is pushing DEI and you don’t fit in that why would you vote for that?
Makes sense, if people feel they are losing politically they won’t feel the government is going to economically redistribute to them.
Honestly Dems could learn a lot from this, I suspect a big part of why their socialist economic policies havent gained more traction with white voters is for this exact reason.
This aligns perfectly with social identity theory and zero-sum heuristic thinking.
When poverty or wealth inequality is framed in purely abstract or class-based terms, people tend to view policy solutions through an ideological lens (e.g., meritocracy vs. systemic failure). However, the moment you introducing explicit racial comparisons, it subconsciously shifts the frame from ‚how do we fix the system‘ to an in-group vs. out-group dynamic.
For many individuals, explicit framing triggers a defensive response because it’s perceived as a threat to their group’s status or a challenge to the ‚just-world‘ fallacy—the belief that the system is inherently fair and everyone gets exactly what they earned.