BREAKING!!!! OPEN LEFT EXCLUSIVE!!!! MUST CREDIT OPEN LEFT!!!!
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has controversially claimed that non-white dudes might judge differently than white dudes in sexual and racial discrimination cases. Supposedly, this is because people see the world differently based on their different experiences, or something. Now, newly unearthed data shockingly suggests that this offesnive and outlandish claim might actually have some validity.
The first tip came when Chris Bowers, Open Left's Director of Perpetually Gazing at Exit Polls, discovered the following chart buried at the top of the first page of the rarely viewed 2008 national exit poll. It shows that people with different genders and ethnicities had a tendency to vote--brace yourself--differently from each other:
Holy demographic revelation Batman--people with different genders and races saw the world differently enough that they ended up voting differently than each other! Even more shockingly, according to a rarely known polling outfit called Pew, it appears that people with different ethnicities perceive differing levels of racism in the country:
I checked to se if the Pew poll was a fluke, but it turns out that 1,764 other polls confirm that white people believe there is less racism in American than black people.
So, it appears that people with different genders and ethnicities do actually view the world differently, including different views on the prevalence of gender and racial discrimination in America.
There is no word as of this writing on whether or not civilization can survive this earth-shattering revelation. However, Chris Bowers, Senior Apocalypse Preparation Director for Openleft.com, has told me that he is stocking up on canned goods--especially the lentil soups he really enjoys. Mmmmm.... lentils. |
