Views on this have changed in recent years, according to Pew Research Center surveys. In 2019, 57% said people overlooking racial discrimination was the bigger problem, while 42% pointed to people seeing it where it really didn’t exist. That gap has narrowed from 15 to 8 percentage points.
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That defeats the entire point of having a survey.
It’s such a broad term that encompasses a lot of behaviors. From micro aggressions we don’t even realize we’ve done to outright xenophobia. Maybe this metric has some value over time.
It’s an interesting metric. It tells you more about the person asked than the question asked.
Do you think you’re racist? I probably am, a little bit. But I end up overthinking it, like “shit, I hope that didn’t seem racist.”
Why? It seems useful to track