According to an article in the October 10th Atlantic magazine Americans strongly dislike PC, (Politically Correct) culture.
In a report written by More in Common, an organization of globalists founded in 2018, they argue that while over 80% of Americans are uncomfortable or dislike political correctness, the numbers do not reflect an accurate picture.
The authors argue, seven distinct clusters emerge: progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, the politically disengaged, moderates, traditional conservatives, and devoted conservatives.
According to the report, 25 percent of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives, and their views are far outside the American mainstream.
Some 8 percent of Americans are progressive activists, described as “woke”, and their views are even less typical.
By contrast, the two-thirds of Americans who don’t belong to either extreme constitute an “exhausted majority.” Their members “share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and a lack of voice in the national conversation.”
Most members of the “exhausted majority,” and then some, dislike political correctness. Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24.
On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages.
Youth isn’t a good proxy for support of political correctness—and it turns out race isn’t, either.
Whites are ever so slightly less likely than average to believe that political correctness is a problem in the country: 79 percent of them share this sentiment.
Instead, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to oppose political correctness. As one 40-year-old American Indian in Oklahoma said in his focus group, according to the report:
“It seems like everyday you wake up something has changed … Do you say Jew? Or Jewish? Is it a black guy? African-American? … You are on your toes because you never know what to say. So political correctness in that sense is scary.”
Progressive activists are the only group that strongly backs political correctness: Only 30 percent see it as a problem. (NOTE: that’s 30% of 8% or 2.4% of the population).
So what does this group look like? Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white.
They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are.
With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.
The author of the article then goes on to say;
“Obviously, my followers are not a representative sample of America. But as their largely supportive feelings about political correctness indicate, they are probably a decent approximation for a particular intellectual milieu to which I also belong: politically engaged, highly educated, left-leaning Americans—the kinds of people, in other words, who are in charge of universities, edit the nation’s most important newspapers and magazines, and advise Democratic political candidates on their campaigns.”
A clear majority of all Americans holds a nuanced point of view: They abhor racism. But they don’t think that the way we now practice political correctness represents a promising way to overcome racial, (or any other type of), injustice.
What the vast majority of Americans seem to see is not so much genuine concern for social justice by “Progressives” as the preening display of virtue signalling and self-perceived cultural superiority.
For the millions upon millions of Americans of all ages and all races contemporary “Progressive” callout culture merely looks like an excuse to mock the values or perceived ignorance of others.
The gap between the progressive perception and the reality of public views on this issue should do damage to the institutions that the progressive elite collectively run, (leftist politics, Hollywood, Big Media and academia), AND IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME.
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