I, for one, am shocked.
Ok, no, not really. I don't mean to express bigotry toward my fellow caucasians, but white liberals are nuts most of the time, imho.Quote:
Interestingly enough, the study, which is titled Pew American Trends Panel: Wave 64, was dated March 2020 over a year ago. Yet it took a Ph.D. candidate in political science posting about the study on Twitter for it to garner even a smidge of attention. He clarifies that the "Pew panel survey included the negative mental health symptoms battery in a subsequent wave (1 month later)."
The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be diagnosed with mental health issues than those who identified as either liberal or even "very liberal." What's more, white women suffered the worst of all. White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives.
It's good to see this studied/discussed publicly, imho. More at the link/twitter threads, fyi.Quote:
Dr. Lyle Rossiter, a board-certified psychiatrist who's treated mental disorders for over 30 years, agrees and adds that white liberalism thrives on supposedly championing "workers," "minorities," "the little guy," "women," and the "unemployed," who they continuously see as "wronged, cheated, oppressed, disenfranchised, exploited, and victimized" with little to no agency of their own (A view that often mutates into the infantilizing and patronizing of certain groups within a narrative).
The people responsible for these crimes? As Rossiter tells it: "poverty, disease, war, ignorance, unemployment, racial prejudice, ethnic and gender discrimination, modern technology, capitalism, globalization, and imperialism. In the radical liberal mind, this suffering is inflicted on the innocent by various predators and persecutors: 'Big Business,' 'Big Corporations,' 'greedy capitalists,' 'U.S. Imperialists,' 'the oppressors,' 'the rich,' 'the wealthy,' 'the powerful,' and 'the selfish'."
That's pretty much an exhaustive list of every grievance and every perpetrator that progressives see as responsible for these injustices which plague our disenfranchised communities while moderates and conservatives seemingly sit idly by unconcerned with anything but their own privilege.
But as the study exemplifies, the champions of these causes (white women in particular) aren't exactly living the liberated utopia they believe we all should be living.