Are Americans less tolerant in the age of trump?

NewRoxFan · Jun 25, 2019

This is an op-ed by Jennifer Rubin, a conservative republican (and admitted trump critic). Is this true? Is it fair to blame it on trump?

Americans in the age of Trump: Less tolerant

In a disturbing new poll, the Public Religion Research Institute finds that “while at least two thirds of Americans oppose allowing small business owners to refuse products or services to minority groups based on their religious beliefs, a small but increasing proportion of Americans think it should be permissible to turn away customers based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, or race.” As one might expect, the big uptick in those willing to refuse service comes among Republicans, but Democrats aren’t immune from the trend to declare that one’s religion permits discrimination against others.
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“From 2014 to 2019, the partisan gap on this issue has dramatically increased. Nearly half (47%) of Republicans favor such a policy, which is more than double the 21% who favored the policy in 2014. By contrast, today only 18% of Democrats and 24% of independents support these kind of religiously based service refusals. These numbers are also an increase from 2014, when only 11% of Democrats and 16% of independents agreed.”
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● More than one in five (22%) Americans say small businesses should be able to refuse to serve Muslims on religious grounds. Men are more likely than women to agree (25% vs. 20%). Around three in ten white evangelical Protestants (32%) and white mainline Protestants (28%) say small businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve Muslims for religious reasons, compared to around one in five nonwhite Protestants (21%), Catholics (19%), and the religiously unaffiliated (17%) who say the same.
● Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to support religiously based refusals to serve gay or lesbian people (47% vs. 18%), transgender people (44% vs. 19%), atheists (37% vs. 17%), and Muslims (32% vs. 14%).
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And now 19 percent (up from 12 percent) say it is fine to deny service to Jews, and 15 percent (up from 10 percent) say it is acceptable to deny service to African Americans.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...olerant/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c9d9163bbed2

Link to poll: https://www.prri.org/research/increasing-support-for-religiously-based-service-refusals/

Amiga · Jun 25, 2019

Nay, he’s a symptom... unfortunately or maybe fortunately. This refusal by religious folks claiming they themselves are victim (eg. no more jesus and prayer in classroom) was already building up for decades and trending before trump.

pirc1 · Jun 25, 2019

NewRoxFan said: ↑

This is an op-ed by Jennifer Rubin, a conservative republican (and admitted trump critic). Is this true? Is it fair to blame it on trump?

Americans in the age of Trump: Less tolerant

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...olerant/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c9d9163bbed2

Link to poll: https://www.prri.org/research/increasing-support-for-religiously-based-service-refusals/
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Do we really need a poll to tell us that? Just look at the posts in this BBS.

JuanValdez · Jun 25, 2019

txtony said: ↑

Nay, he’s a symptom... unfortunately or maybe fortunately. This refusal by religious folks claiming they themselves are victim (eg. no more jesus and prayer in classroom) was already building up for decades and trending before trump.
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I'd agree. But, I'd also say if Trump's presidency is a symptom, it's also been itself a cause of wider expansion of this view.

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