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White Americans see rise in discrimination against them: Poll

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 2 Jul 2022 00:15

White Americans see that discrimination is on the rise against them in the United States.

  • White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, the United States
    White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, the United States

Over 30% of White Americans see that discrimination against White people has increased more over the past five years than it has against any other racial group, a poll conducted by the University of Maryland’s Critical Issues Poll showed on Friday.

30.1% of White respondents said White Americas faced "a lot more" discrimination, University of Maryland researchers said in an article for The Conversation. A similar amount - but less - of White respondents (28.9%) said Asian Americans experienced "a lot more" discrimination over the past five years.

Only 21.7% of White respondents noted that there has been a rise in discrimination against Jewish Americans, 20.4% against Black Americans, 19.7% against Muslim Americans, and 14.7% against Latino Americans, the researchers said.

In contrast, 53.2% of Black respondents, on the other hand, saw that Black Americans have faced "a lot more discrimination" over the past five years. 38.9% of Black respondents said the same about Asian Americans, 33.3% about Latino Americans, 29.3% about Muslim Americans, 23.7% about Jewish Americans, and 13% about white Americans.

In contrast, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll found in late May that 75% of Black Americans are worried about racially motivated physical attacks (32% are "very worried", while 43% are "somewhat worried"). Meanwhile, according to Newsweek, only 8% of respondents indicated they are "not at all worried."

The poll surveyed 806 Black adults and was published on Saturday, a week after a neo-Nazi teen committed a mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 Black individuals dead, dubbed by the US President as "domestic terrorism."

According to the poll, 27% of Black Americans believe "half" of white people share white supremacist ideals, while 35% believe "most" white people do. However, 8% of respondents stated that "very few" white Americans believe in white supremacy.

Meanwhile, according to the study, 75% of Black Americans believe white supremacists are a "major threat" and 66% believe white supremacy is a bigger problem now than it was five years ago.

According to the Post-Ipsos poll, additional causes leading to hate crimes include a lack of tolerance in schools, mental health difficulties, a lack of personal links to Black people or television news, and "blaming Black people for their problems."

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