'Newsweak' poll suggests some pollsters are racist.

I found a new poll today published by “Newsweak” , well it didn't really publish the poll- it published a short analysis of the poll along with some short interviews. The poll they reference is more an aggregate of many polls and it suggests that the people who wrote the poll questions think minorities should be coddled like children who need taken care of because they can’t do anything on their own. Well, if you disagree with Newsweek and the pollsters, then you must be a racist. Newsweek and the pollsters exercised some English acrobats in the questions so that anyone who doesn’t attempt to read between the lines or people who don’t believe in the same narrative- offends everyone who makes a living off of the assumed narrative. Unlike Newsweek, I won’t hide the actual poll questions I am going to talk about behind a link. (I'll embed the full pdf page at the end of the post). The context of the questions are from the point of view of people who buy into the idea that history is something you carry in your DNA and that behavior isn't something you learn but something you inherent. The questions are from the humanitarian progressive view point. Unlike Margret Sanger, the humanitarian progressive believes society should be changed so as to compensate for the inherent disabilities for non-whites. The Tea Party rejects the idea of inherent disabilities based on ethnicity or race- disabilities and talents are individual traits. The people polled agreed to take part in the poll- and so they answered the questions as presented. If you've ever been polled by phone you know that you can't change the questions to fit your answers.

Questions:	True Believers of Tea Party
Question 1: Irish, Italians, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up. Blacks should do the same without special favors.	88%
Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class. (Disagree)	72%
Over the past few years blacks have gotten less than they deserve. (Disagree)	83%
It’s really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites. (Agree)	73%

I suppose the pollsters and Newsweek believe people should get special favors because of their ethnicity. Isn’t that what the civil rights movement was about? When Martin Luther King said men should be judged by the content of their character- he didn’t have a footnote and he didn’t digress to try to qualify his statement. His point of reference was equality.

America has evolved as a nation. The Tea Party sees the basic unit of society as the individual. The creator of the poll sees the basic unit of society as the ethnic group. The struggle for individual success is a solitary action- no one can be given success. Success is something you earn through your own individual struggle- the rewards you receive are from your individual work- and the individual doesn't have a right to the rewards of another individual. I don't have a right to the success of Jerry West. I am a horrible basketball player- my individual struggle to become an NBA Hall of Famer is irrelevant- I don't have the talent. Jerry West did not oppress me- he didn't pool all the talent for himself like water. Talent isn't a resource that can be distributed- it doesn't fall like rain and you can't dig it out of the ground. You can be born with some talent- what you do with that talent is up to you- you can develop it to make yourself more talented- or you can ignore it and allow your environment to determine your actions. Man as a species can not expect to succeed if he relies only on his environment to survive- man must develop himself and change his environment. No group really has an inherent talent or an inherent disability and so no group should expect the rest of society to give them 'special favors' or pay a 'talent tax'. Talent and disability are descriptions of the properties of individuals.

Two questions in the poll discuss immigration. The first question doesn't surprise me as much as how many people didn't give a common sense answer- though the Tea Party has a much higher percentage of people who gave a common sense answer. If you don't think recent immigration levels will take jobs away from people already here I think you may have issues beyond answering poll questions.

How likely is it that recent immigration levels will take jobs away from people already here? (Likely)	56%
The number of immigrants from foreign countries should be…(Decreased)***	54%

Over half of the Tea Party People Polled think that the number of immigrants from foreign countries should be decreased. Well all countries that are not the United States are foreign countries to US citizens- it's a reciprocal relationship. To the citizens of Lesotho all countries that are not Lesotho are foreign countries-so I'm not sure why they worded the question in that way. Do the pollsters think some countries are not foreign countries? Maybe I'm over thinking it. The basics of logistics would dictate that when you have limited resources the units of resources per person will be determined by how many people you have- the more people you have, the smaller the portion each person would receive. So again common sense would dictate that we lower the number of immigrants coming into the country so as to not stress the resource pool further.

The next few questions were not addressed in the 'Newsweak' article. I think it's because it contradicts the humanitarian progressive narrative.

Favor/Oppose laws to protect homosexuals against job discrimination? (Favor)	62%
Homosexuals should be allowed to serve in the United States Armed forces? (Strongly Agree)	69%
Gay or lesbian couples should be allowed to legally adopt children? (Yes)	36%

The Tea Party is pretty Libertarian in nature and although it may be from an older demographic who doesn't necessarily agree with the novel idea of homosexuals adopting children- they still believe homosexuals should have what ever place in society they have earned individually.

The second set of poll questions really makes me want to see the sample polls used to construct the survey. I think that with both surveys the sources are probably slanted in the first place and so the bell curve would simply illustrate that bias.

Here is an interview with the pollster.

Here is the organizations analysis of the polls which contains links to the following pdfs.