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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 02 2018, @05:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the was-not-expecting-that dept.

White Americans' fear of losing their socioeconomic standing in the face of demographic change may be driving opposition to welfare programs, even though whites are major beneficiaries of government poverty assistance, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.

While social scientists have long posited that racial resentment fuels opposition to such anti-poverty programs as food stamps, Medicaid and Temporary Aid to Needy Families, this is the first study to show the correlation experimentally, demonstrating a causal relationship between attitudes to welfare and threatened racial status.

"With policymakers proposing cuts to the social safety net, it's important to understand the dynamics that drive the welfare backlash," said study lead author Rachel Wetts, a Ph.D. student in sociology at UC Berkeley. "This research suggests that when whites fear their status is on the decline, they increase opposition to programs intended to benefit poorer members of all racial groups."

The findings, to be published May 30 in the journal Social Forces, highlight a welfare backlash that swelled around the 2008 Great Recession and election of Barack Obama.

Notably, the study found anti-welfare sentiment to be selective insofar as threats to whites' standing led whites to oppose government assistance programs they believed largely benefit minorities, while not affecting their views of programs they thought were more likely to advantage whites.

"Our findings suggest that these threats lead whites to oppose programs they perceive as primarily benefiting racial minorities," said study senior author Robb Willer, a professor of sociology and social psychology at Stanford University.

[...] "Overall, these results suggest whites' perceptions of rising minority power and influence lead them to oppose welfare programs," Wetts said.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:50AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @07:50AM (#687605)

    Phys.org co-opted by Leftists.

    Remember folks, everything the Left does is a projection, and a way to divert attention from their own guilt and wrongdoings.

    Hey assholes, Whites in South America are also in fear of losing their status, along with their lives! Just like Zimbabwe beforehand, it will become total shithole within 20 years (right now it is just a shithole).

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:05AM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:05AM (#687607)

    Most of science is SJW converged now. Why do you think it is grinding to a halt? Why do you think most of the stuff that is supposed to be hard science is no longer reproducible outside of industry research? Impossibility of SJW Convergence at work, as any organization converges toward the goals of Social Justice it finds it impossible to carry out its original mission. When we come out the other end of the Kaboom! most "science" of the last thirty or so years will need to be deleted and redone from scratch because it will the simpler path. We might get to keep the output of the purest sciences, those less attractive to SJWs like math, astronomy, particle physics.

    Silicon Valley started out pretty much Communist infested but look how far and fast they are now falling. Twitter went from "the free speech wing of the free speech movement" to the heavily censored shithole it now is in less than two years. Same for Facebook and Google. Pretty much the entire Fortune 500 is now a dead loss writeoff. New competitors will have to green field new replacements for all of it, trying to acquire any of the bones at the bankruptcy auctions will only speed the infection of the new entities with the zombie rot. You can't clean out SJW infections because they will destroy an organization themselves before allowing control to slip out of their unclean paws.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:21AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:21AM (#687608)

      I have it on good authority that jmorris is in fact on welfare. Multiple SS disability accounts, mostly for a severe case a agoraphobia that keeps him from leaving his "domicile", since reality has a well known liberal bias. And then there are the bone spurs, anal cysts, and other such disabilities that keep any patriotic super alt-right from actually serving in any service. Poor jmorris! I would suggest we take up a Soylentil fund for him, but he is already driving a brand new Cadillac, except he is to afraid to actual drive it out of the garage. Carbon Monoxide, does funny things to one's intellect. Worse if one did not have one to begin with.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday June 02 2018, @09:14AM (2 children)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday June 02 2018, @09:14AM (#687624) Homepage

        Your post sucks since Hillary lost and now the Jew-run media has to double-back on their support for the racist, voter-intimidating Antifa. Yet, they are still petulant and steadfast in their beLIEfs, lets see how they hold up in the next few months.

        • (Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday June 02 2018, @11:29AM (1 child)

          by anubi (2828) on Saturday June 02 2018, @11:29AM (#687645) Journal

          Gee, EF, I'm gonna steal that one... beLIEfs !

          I love it!

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    • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday June 02 2018, @09:59AM

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday June 02 2018, @09:59AM (#687630)

      Great comedy writing.....oh wait, you were serious.....ah well, a funny mod for thee!

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:44AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday June 02 2018, @08:44AM (#687617) Journal

    Phys.org just reprints university news pieces/press releases, with the exception of a few articles written by Phys.org staff. Article is from University of California - Berkeley.

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