Gallup poll data:
So: What happened in 2013?
Note that 2013 is three years before Donald Trump became president.
Note that 2013 is four years before Jordan Peterson became famous.
Questions: Does it coincide with editorial-board changes at major media outlets, e.g., The New York Times and The Washington Post, etc.? Does it coincide with the beginning of President Obama’s second term? Does it coincide with the publication of milestone Critical Race Theory handbooks? Or with the social-media success of influential antiracist/racist organizations?
Open to suggested hypotheses.
Without any supporting fact other than my opinion and experience, I would say the biggest driver is the media: they “discovered” that extremes get more clicks online, thus increased, over time, their bias towards reporting them.
It’d be great to compare these results to a question like “How would you rate YOUR experience in the relationship between White and Black people”…
In other words, we can blame it on the fact that internet is free ==> social media companies rely on ads ==> content companies, in order to maximize profit, seek to maximize clicks
In 2013, three female Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and movement building project called Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter began with a social media hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin back in 2012.
my best guess is it’s a result of the shooting of trayvon martin in 2012, and I theorize that the critical race lingo then ramps up and drops out of the university and into american culture in an effort to fight supposed crisis of police killings. “white privilege” drops first followed quickly by all the other verbiage.
I think the dramatic cultural shift of post floyd killing is evidence that trayvon was a pre-floyd type of cultural turning point. in other words, the images/videos/narrative of those two stories have u leashed massive cultural shift.
Math error: This was FOUR years before Donald Trump became President. He was inaugurated in 2017.
The inevitable outcome of all redistribution schemes is group warfare.
Massive changes in US monetary policies (2008-2009) including “Too big to fail” were a call to groups that unlimited funds are available through wealth redistribution. No longer a need to convince tax payers of a just cause, instead central figures determine systemic necessity and reward that with billions and billions, you just need to be a victim of a systemic event.
2009-2013 was ground work laying as people fully digested this new reality. It takes time to build a multi billion dollar buisness.
People allow the exploitation by victim groups seeking money because many harbor guilt/moral confusion from not earning their wealth through direct productive means but instead through speculative effects of previous wealth transfers. They further exacerbate the problem by funding “vicitims” And by hoping that the victims will save them through redemption or knowledge they cannot get on their own.