NYTAPI

Notes from the Times API page:

Pagination Use the offset query parameter to paginate thru the results, 25 comments at a time. Use offset=0 to get the first 25 comments, offset=25 to get the next 25 comments, …

The url.json endpoint returns top-level comments and the first three replies. The totalParentCommentsFound field has the total number of top-level comments. Use that to determine how many comments you need to paginate thru.

In the comment node, the replyCount indicates how many replies there are to that top-level comment. If there are more than three, use the replies.json endpoint, the comment sequence and offset query parameter to paginate thru replies, 25 at a time.

You can sort the comment list by newest first, oldest first, or comments with most reader recommendations first (sort=newest, oldest, or reader).

Responses The Community API is RESTful. It uses response codes to indicate the API status (200 - OK, 401 - invalid key, 429 - rate limit reached, …).

I’m only going to focus on the comments, not their replies here, since they don’t belong in the same table. I’ve included a function below for getting replies, using the commentID of the comment it replies to, if future development is desired.

This routine begins with a NYT-provided api key, and uses it to query the community API for reader comments on articles.

baseUrl <- 'https://api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v3/user-content/'
comments <- 'url.json?api-key='
replies <- 'replies.json?api-key='

getComments <- function(strURL, comments_endpoint, offset=0) {
  resp <- GET(paste(baseUrl, comments_endpoint, apikey, sep=''),
           query = list(offset = offset, url = strURL))
  content(resp, "parsed")
}
getReplies <- function(strURL, replies_endpoint, commentID, offset=0){
  resp <- GET(paste(baseUrl, replies_endpoint, apikey, sep=''),
              query = list(offset = offset, url = strURL,
                           commentSequence = commID))
  content(resp, "parsed")
}
commentFrame <- function(articleURL) {
  # build a frame for the first page of results, if possible
  c <- getComments(articleURL, comments)
  # "upper level fail", for unspecified reasons
  if (is.character(c)) {
    print("API call failed")
    return()
  }
  # "lower level fail", where at least there's some debugging help
  if (c$status != "OK") {
    print(c$errorDetails)
    print('Offset was set to 0') # to help with debugging
    return()
  }
  feats <- c('commentID', 'userID', 'userDisplayName', 'userLocation',
             'commentBody', 'createDate', 'recommendations', 
             'replyCount', 'editorsSelection', 'isAnonymous')
  # append all comments here, one by one
  frame <- data.frame()
  for (comm in c$results$comments) {
    frame <- rbind(frame, comm[feats])
  }
  # now add all the rest of the available pages
  pagemax <- 25 # API limit per page
  total_pages <- ceiling(c$results$totalParentCommentsFound / pagemax)
  if (total_pages < 2) {return(frame)}
  
  for (p in 2:total_pages) {
    Sys.sleep(6) # API limit is 10 calls per minute
    c <- getComments(articleURL, comments, offset = (p-1) * 25)
    if (c$status != "OK") {
      print(c$errorDetails)
      cat('Offset was set to ', (p-1) * 25) # to help with debugging
      break
    }
    for (comm in c$results$comments) {
      frame <- rbind(frame, comm[feats])
    }
  }
  frame
}

Now use the above routine to build a frame of comments. Needless to say, any headline that mentions racism will draw a lot of comments, so I’ll demonstrate the routine using a recent story about “white fears” in towns where capitol rioters came from.

whiteFearsURL <- 'https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/politics/capitol-riot-study.html'
whiteDF <- commentFrame(whiteFearsURL)

whiteDF %>%
  kbl() %>%
  kable_material_dark()

commentID	userID	userDisplayName	userLocation	commentBody	createDate	recommendations	replyCount	editorsSelection	isAnonymous
112328315	3608300	Bill D.	New Jersey	If these folks would look at increases in diversity as an opportunity to practice leadership and mentoring, things would go a lot smoother. Every “catastrophe” is an opportunity in disguise.	1617804720	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112328894	134979373	pappy	west	Not fear of losing out, but I believe one of the greatest fears for those whites who are not educated is waking up one morning and not recognizing the ones who are now firmly in charge.	1617806015	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112329772	19364327	John	Bucks, PA	This was an insurrection, not a protest. While it is necessary to put these people on trial, things will not end until those responsible are held accountable: Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani for the meritless lawsuits Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville, Roger Marshall, John Kennedy, Cindy Hyde-Smith 121 House Republicans Fox News, et al Trump’s claims of election fraud were false. They were always false, and these people, who all knew they were lies kept promoting these lies. 18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. 18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.	1617807943	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112330329	58135798	Mack	New England	Over and over again, I read comments that contend that “these people” are afraid of losing out to people who don’t look like them. Balderdash. They fear “losing out” to people who don’t think like them. They fear losing out to Gay people who look like them, and to Liberals who look like them too. But, “they” aren’t just white, there were black and brown and yellow sprinkled in with the whites at the Capitol, TEA Party, and Trump rallies who also afraid of losing out to gays, Liberals, atheists, etc..	1617809305	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112330514	73539559	Lucy Cooke	California	“Mr. Pape, whose career had mostly been focused on international terrorism, used that approach after the Sept. 11 attacks when he created a database of suicide bombers from around the world. His research led to a remarkable discovery: Most of the bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations.” And the US response to terrorism has been more military occupations… and the NYT and the entire Establishment kept telling us “suckers” that those Muslim extremists hated us for our freedoms. No wonder so many, have so little trust in the government, the Establishment and its media. The obliviousness of the Democratic and Republican Establishment and their usual self interested stupidity has created the US immigration problem. Foreign born population in the US was 9.6 million in 1970, and 41.3 million in 2013, <a href=“https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends” target="_blank">https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends</a>/ That was a HUGE change in US demographics. Immigrants/refugees did take American jobs and lower wages, despite Democratic Party mythology to the contrary. I know Trump voters who intensely dislike the flood of illegal immigrants, but like and respect individual immigrants. Cheap labor made a lot of Democrats and Republicans wealthy, so illegal immigration was tolerated, while the middle class got poorer. Biden’s bold, Sanders inspired policies may calm the anger and lessen the despair.	1617809729	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112329943	55849884	d’Aroborville	N. America	Demographers foresaw these tensions decades ago.	1617808383	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112326976	17105	Susan	New England	In order to fully comprehend this pronlem - and why it won’t go away anytime soon - we must look to Apartheid in South Africa and to the Reptilian part of our brain. White Supremacy is driven by fear. But the deepest fear of all lies in our emotion-driven flight or fight center. Whites made up 1 or 2% of the Sourh African population, but they ruled - absolutely - 100% of it. Those of us old enough to remember Apartheid know how cruel and merciless it was. Nelson Mandela and tbousands upon thousands more suffered for decades under its total oppression. It took activists there and around the world decades and decades to finally end it. But given that they were ultimately bound to lose, what took Whites so long to accept inevitable reality? The fact they were bound to lose. A seeming paradox, but really the fear hidden deep in their brains: When we lose and they win - THEY WILL DO TO US WHAT WE’VE DONE TO THEM. They will do to US what we’ve done and are doing to them. Terrifying. Unacceptable. Flight is impossible, so Fight is the only option. Next time you hear a republican speak or kool-aid drinker comment here, put their words and ultimately useless deeds into context, and understand their subtext: If we don’t stop them now, they will do to us what we’ve done to them.	1617801590	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112328216	40842427	gc	chicago	the census bureu forcast the shift by race several decades ago…Reagan anyone?	1617804454	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112329393	111071438	Lynn T.	Northern California	I think Pape has hit the nail on the head. My mother is one of many who have been brought up believing the “Great Replacement” theory. An educated, wealthy, white woman, she voted for Trump despite my my family’s conversations in her presence about his white supremacist beliefs and megalomaniac behaviors. She is living in a bubble of white privilege that even her family cannot burst. She harbors great disdain for the poor; the darker their skin, the more she fears and despises them. She has always been upset about the influx of Latinos into California, saying they are taking over and abusing our health services. She is afraid they will break into her house to steal her possessions. She believes she has what they want, so Trump would protect her interests.	1617807092	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112330970	42787428	P Greider	Los Angeles	I have found that Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc. are not interested in destroying “white culture.” The biggest threat to “Euro-American” culture as well as a lot of other cultures is that people are not having children to pass it on to. The birth rate even among Hispanics has dropped precipitously. So if you are interested in protecting your culture you should be having children instead of storming the Capitol. And stop with the paranoia. Having grown up in 99% white suburbia outside Houston, I have been struck by how often I can share the same values and outlook as people who grew up in different cultures, different races and even different countries.	1617810859	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112328332	19105693	rixax	Toronto	The article’s title says it all. “Fear”. That is what drives people who realize that their level of poverty or low paying hard work jobs are actually quite a few steps up from the reality of those seeking an equal opportunity to live, even at that level. And those people are born American. Claiming immigration is the problem is an easy cover for all of “those people”. Don’t be afraid. It leads to acts that do not help.	1617804778	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112329209	56770124	CH	Indianapolis, Indiana	What President Biden needs to do is find a way to convince the public that life in this country is not a zero-sum game, and that intentionally leaving some groups behind hurts us all. If we want to build a better nation, rather than nurse grudges, we all need to learn what is normally taught in preschool: share with others.	1617806690	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112329370	27831010	Londoner	London	The key to an investigation of this type is to understand what drives these people - their feelings, their insecurities, their general level of understanding, their concepts of duty and fair play, and, perhaps most of all, their fears. When there are this many people, and almost certainly five or ten times as many more who considered similar actions, outright condemnation achieves very little. It could well be counter-productive - just inciting deeper anger. It’s also important to see these people as real. As our neighbours, our relatives - to see in them deeper feelings of our own that we might have suppressed or forgotten. It seems to me that this is report is good work. It seeks out genuine motives and could help to inspire programs that can bring these people back from the edge before Trump 2.0 sets them on some new and potentially deadly crusade.	1617807047	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112328228	59612520	Gert Boel	Brussels, Belgium	The academic question this study asks is in some ways moot. Paranoid nativist schools of thought have, throughout history, intertwined with rising and falling economic fortunes. Those who stormed the Capitol are no doubt white supremacists, and at the same time wage stagnation and the decline of blue-collar employment is a real issue, which has a suffocating effect on those who lack the proper educational prospects to overcome it. In turn, some of those become genuinely inebriated with racist thoughts. The welfare state was a racially exclusionary institution, which at the same time prevented a return to 1930s barbarism. The Reaganite and neoliberal destruction of the labor union and welfare state did create a genuine vulnerability with certain people. I can only hope those institutions can be rebuilt on a more equitable and inclusionary basis, without requiring the same kind of catastrophe it needed the first time round for its inception. And I hope people learn to look at the true sources of their economic and social woes, and deal with them, instead of projecting envious hatred towards other groups. But then, hope is a cheap contribution to a debate like this.	1617804482	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112328907	85306808	RwB	Upstate	The demographics on this issue started about 50 years ago with a prediction that by 2040 , the number of blacks and whites will be approximately equal with the remaining approximately 20% percent becoming the “new” minority. Its strange that most people are only now becoming aware of this demographic shift.	1617806046	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112329170	57792555	susana guimard	NYC	Do we really need a study to understand the source of racist fear and contempt? Maybe we should study how to solve a very old problem. Enough talk, let us figure out how to become one America, the one that understands that we are multicultural, multilingual and is not necessary stuck on misinformation. Our understanding of equality is confused at best. How can we arrive at equally plausible solution without complete information for all?	1617806627	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112330137	99008493	AA	Portland, Oregon	So on the one hand, a big chunk of Americans are terrified that they’re being displaced by other races, and on the other hand, a whole movement is working desperately hard to racialize everything. Seems promising.	1617808852	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112328274	54072062	Tom	California	"If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you." Lyndon Johnson	1617804607	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112325330	73921874	Karen Fischer	Island	White people fear losing out to immigrants? Ironic given this is exactly what their white ancestors did to the Native Americans.	1617797112	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112327065	57426755	Julian Fernandez	Dallas, Texas	If you flew in a private plane to DC to storm the Capitol and overturn an election, how can you claim economic anxiety as the reason for your treason?	1617801809	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112327299	37460659	Bill	St. Louis	I’m baffled that Mr. Pape went into his research thinking it was anything but privilege and racism. Starting research with an open mind is necessary but the confederate flags and Trump’s whistle were the tell.	1617802330	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112327418	57945213	mary	connecticut	Sad to say, we are still generations away from embracing the truth that we are all the same under this skin we wear. “We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” ― Ayn Rand	1617802616	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112327314	86725210	Not My Potus Ever	VA	This is no surprise. The rapidly changing US demographics are a key driver of the MAGA mindset. The more enlightened are seeking ways to build on the strength of such a diverse country, as MAGA mindset is much more circumspect.	1617802362	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112326349	42542710	Wolf Kirchmeir	Blind River, Ontario	Cruel irony: The ones who fear replacement themselves replaced indigenous populations. Maybe that’s (one of many reasons) why they fear it so: what you did to others, others may well do to you. And for exactly the same reasons.	1617799988	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112326320	75684432	Bruce Maier	Shoreham, BY	If you want to solve a problem, you need to understand it. Gut level emotional reactions are not facts, but feelings.	1617799910	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112325769	29319747	Alexander Beal	Lansing, MI	In his focus groups, Stanley Greenberg also heard the same words from previously non-voting whites, that they feel they are being replaced. Racism is the one and only thing that will motivate them to vote. Think about that.	1617798481	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324727	71044272	awa	houston,tx	In a democracy based on equal rights and equal protection under the law, white privilege is illegitimate. It is theft of rights and opportunities of others. It should no longer be tolerated or assumed to be a “normal” state of being.	1617794689	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323512	71291101	Dirkle	Denver	“They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites” Don’t know if I agree with that. I remember guys outed & some arrested after Charlottesville were hardly even “middle-class.” They were fired from their “prestigious” jobs at hot dog stands, etc. I don’t know how some of them even came up with the money to get there. I’m sure there were “middle-class” rioters at the Capitol, but per the quote, I get the impression most of them are LOW-to-middle class. I know trump thinks they dress like it. =D	1617775746	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112325369	45222845	martin	albany, ny	Everything, but everything has to be about race now. I thought we had a mob at the Capitol, supposedly incited by the President, invading the chamber to stop what they thought was a crooked or stolen election. (The issue was a rather arcane argument, which failed in various courts, that the voting or elector process in certain states was illegal for a variety of far-fetched reasons.). The mob broke in, hurt some people, trashed some rooms like teen-aged vandals, and promptly walked out, having achieved nothing. It wasn’t a coup d’etat: they didn’t even occupy the building with a list of demands as college protesters do. It was definitely a riot, but the term insurrection seems excessive. “Treason” seems silly. The racial aspect of this seems specious and tenuous. Simply connecting them to certain Zip codes is not very elucidating. But since the Left views everything through the lens of race, this is what we get.	1617797211	2	2	FALSE	FALSE
112324905	41855254	usa999	Portland, OR	Having worked with and around immigrants for more than 50 years I have yet to see one “take a job from an American”. But I have seen numerous employers displace Americans in favor of immigrants because the latter work harder, are more readily exploited, and are more easily bullied. The “taking jobs” refrain is a way to place the blame on the immigrant not the boss. If Republicans in Congress want to take a giant step toward reducing immigration they will propose and fund a special ICE detachment that does nothing but arrest people employing immigrants who do not have documents with successful prosecution of employers resulting in jail time and loss of the property or business that employed them. Stop beating up on immigrants and go after the real villians. I am a Republican and I approve of this message.	1617795473	12	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324857	40300692	Jon Harrison	Poultney, VT	But does this tell the whole story? What about the people who voted for Obama and then switched to Trump? The small group of people who actually stormed the Capitol aren’t necessarily representative of the larger MAGA movement.	1617795260	1	1	FALSE	FALSE
112324402	56208553	Adam	Fort Myers	I truly believe that the demonstrations by Hispanics that accompanied attempts to protect the Dreamers was a turning point in the United States. The mainstream media was reporting that Hispanics would become the dominant race in the United States and white people became threatened that they would become a minority and have reacted in fear and racism. I do not think this attitude will change.	1617792992	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324104	47091853	ggallo	Middletown, NY	This is so simple. When things around you are changing and you are not part of that change, … it ain’t a good feeling.	1617790390	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324091	4501886	Larry Lundgren	Sweden	As a Times reader and comment writer who often writes that the US Census Bureau should end classifying Americans by so-called race or ethnicity - neither scientific or sound - I expect that someone may reply to this comment to say: "Larry, how could this study have been made if people were not classified by race and ethnicity? That would be a very reasonable question and I note that when the former Census Bureau Director proposed ending the use of the present system, he did not deal with the question that perhaps a reader will pose for me. Jews in America are classified as white, so the racism directed at them is not based on so-called skin color. Most important about the Pape study is that the United States is still as far from studying domestic terrorism potential as the Norwegian government was when it did not worry about Anders Behring Breivik, leaving him free to set off a bomb in Oslo and then continue to an island where he killed at least 70 people. The participants in the January 6 attack show a group of candidates for a Breivik type attack - only a matter of time. Only-NeverInSweden.blogspot.com Citizen US SE	1617790168	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324055	65143923	Wim Roffel	Netherlands	The article confuses cause and effect. These towns are white flight towns. So the successful whites are leaving and most of those remaining do so because they can’t afford to leave and thus are stuck. In addition they face the common disadvantages of living in an area that is becoming poorer and more diverse: less social cohesion and a lower quality of governance. In such circumstances it is easy to conclude that minorities are the problem.	1617789636	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324477	37430296	Rosemary Galette	Atlanta, GA	The title of this article is ambiguous in ascribing motive to the insurrectionists as “the fear of losing in out.” One could think losing out means some struggle with economic climbing of the social ladder. But this is not what the analysis shows. The article describes analysis showing middle- and upper-middle class people with regressive, racial motives and no restrictions on using violence. This is why it was frightening to watch them attack the Capital Building, see them scaling the walls, breaking windows, prowling through the Rotunda, posing with their weapons. These were not people who came for a conversation about fairness and a bipartisan way forward. These weren’t people who could be appeased with better education or working opportunities. These were people who fear the diversity of a modern country. They will not be reasoned with, because they thriving off of the misinformation and emotional propaganda from some politicians and media outlets. This is not about a fair shake for the white working class. Being “left behind” for these people means losing power to people who do not look like them, and to women who express their equality and their leadership. The title of the article suggests “losing out” is something that could be assuaged; the insurrectionists are anti-government and not afraid to use violence to defend their power in preventing a fairer world.	1617793497	16	0	FALSE	FALSE
112324308	76372713	ASPruyn	California - Somewhere left of center	It is amazing to think that people who denigrate and oppress people based on their personal notions of ethnicity expect that those denigrated would want to wholeheartedly adopt the culture of the people that denigrate them. The US is dotted with “Little Italy”s, “Chinatown”s, “Japantown”s, discreet concentrations of people from Latin America divided by country of origination, similar ones for Eastern Europeans. Many of these are there because the dominant ethnicity (mostly Northern European) likely restricted them by law and culture to those sections through covenants and other ways. Add into all of this the idea that if you live on such margins, you are more likely to see your children die while still young, so larger families tend to be more prevalent among them. Especially when your care when you are old will depend on your surviving children. And so, members of the dominant ethnicity might see the results of all of this and concoct “The Great Replacement” theory. A theory that does not match reality. Let’s face it folks, the idea of America being “the great melting pot” is a fable we made up and only existed for those who could pass as the dominant ethnicity.	1617792286	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323583	38157208	Patrick	Australia	I greatly fear a whole crowd of people wearing weird head wear, carefully picking their way along the velvet ropes of the Capitol and reaching the inner sanctums of power. I am afraid that some of them will actually pray before the speaker’s chair, thus defiling a secular space. Some may lounge around, haughtily exclaiming their devious plans, while waving the flags of whatever usurper has lead them on. How much of this can America take? It seems that America can take very little.	1617777350	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323997	49134708	alformaetxea	Oaxaca	Joe Biden says that the inmigrants could change the elections in Georgia… It´s the same that it’s happening in Spain for example, with 7 millions inmigrants, (15% of total population, 40% in some areas or slums of big cities), changing absolutely the results of polling. That’s the reason than left wing parties support masive inmigration without any kind of control… And this is a fact…	1617788522	0	1	FALSE	FALSE
112323693	90014007	Susan	San Diego, Ca	Many years ago, my husband’s fifteen year-old mixed-race (black/white) cousin came to visit from the Netherlands. We took her to Yosemite, and one side trip was to Mariposa Grove, where we were standing in line to ride the tram through the woods. As we were chatting happily, I happened to notice one of the tram attendants, a middle-aged white woman, glaring at us. I met her gaze, but she only intensified her stare. Then our cousin saw it as well—we didn’t have to say anything, because all of us knew her meaning. But our cousin was undeterred. Happy, loving girl that she is, she grabbed me, hugging me and kissing me on the cheek. I returned the favor and looked back at the woman, whose mouth had dropped, and whose eyes were rolling in the back of her head. Whenever I think that life has been unfair, I am reminded of this incident. I am reminded that POC in the US can hardly go a day without experiencing such slights, and I imagine how demoralizing and demeaning it must be. And yet the vast majority do not let it destroy them. It is humbling.	1617780773	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323733	68912238	Erica Chan	Hong Kong	It is nature that people congregate with their own kind. They share similar cultural background, language, worldview and customs. They are also better to compete for limited resources against other groups. The inclusiveness advocated by liberals is more intellectual than natural. Even people who preach inclusiveness have moments when their true nature shines through. This is a natural defense mechanism, to ensure the survival of the race, and conscious suppression is probably insufficient to completely eliminate these tendencies. It is not unlike sexual urge (being another mechanism of nature to ensure survival) breaking through religious or societal taboos. The US is an artificial country, built by immigrants from different racial and cultural backgrounds. It would take centuries of inter-marriages to dilute the difference and break down the barriers. Take China as an example. The great migration of the Northern tribes occurred during the Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589 CE), and it took centuries for these people to adopt Han Chinese customs. Even Black Americans, who have been in the country for the longest, have their own very distinct culture, even though mixed marriages have become more common and accepted than 50 years ago. Not until all ethnic characteristics (appearance, language, custom) become homogenised would true integration occur, and this has nothing to do with liberal or conservative attitudes.	1617782443	4	2	FALSE	FALSE
112323544	3940727	Kristen	UK	Interesting. They controlled for a bunch of factors, but did they also consider that Jan 6 was the vote certification date? That it may have been widely seen as the last chance - the big moment - to stop Biden from being confirmed as the winner of the election? I’d have thought that that fact would at least partly explain why many people turned out. It wasn’t just a usual protest, it was the big one. People want to be a part of history, if they think it’s going to be a momentous event.	1617776534	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323165	81744208	Daoshan Sun	Charlotte	Most of those people have already lost out to globalization and other things. Many of them were once supporters of democrats. They just try to keep their meager means of livelihood, not billion dollar inheritances. But because they are white, they no longer deserve democrats’ sympathy. Moreover, they even lost the right to fight for their means of living a pretty basic life? Have any of the thinkers in the media thought about what would happen when people lost means of living?	1617770351	3	2	FALSE	FALSE
112323366	66207720	Joseph Ross Mayhew	Timberlea, Nova Scotia	Perhaps i’m a voice crying in the wilderness here, but we have to start a generations-long process of encouraging parents to teach their children the indisputable and scientifically backed truth that underneath the skin and other superficial differences, WE ARE ALL THE SAME!!!! No ethnic (the term “race” is completely obsolete: it doesn’t apply to humans in a genetic sense, even a tiny bit) group or their culture, is inherently superior to any other: we are all just human beings, making our way through life as best as we can - and we are all pretty much the same in all the ways that truly count.	1617773329	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323353	58815834	Joe	Wisconsin	So lucky for the world that American racism wasn’t as potent as simple greed. If wealthy whites hadn’t gutted poor whites for decades, they’d have easily birthed something more than an anti-movement on 1/6. The self fulfilling prophecy of replacement obsession fools drove the normal bystanders to be better humans. GOP good old boys become far right terrorists and now find themselves headed to prison. Thank you God for your grace there was probably no other way to expose and resolve this evil force.	1617773131	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112323282	52422067	Jess	New York	Having just returned from Montana and Idaho I can attest that Trump has considerable support among the rural poor. Seeing confederate flags flying in Idaho was even more shocking. There was certainly no threat of being replaced as the towns were almost entirely white. That’s not to say that just because a person flies the flag means they favor insurrection perhaps they just liked the swagger or the tough talk on China or conservatives judges. Nonetheless it was alarming and somewhat perplexing to witness.	1617771901	13	1	FALSE	FALSE
112322928	46160440	Thrasher	DC	What happens when the minorities in America become convinced that nothing in White America can restrain their right to agency and the pursuit of life , liberty and happiness This article continues to anchor Whites in America as the more prominent variable in the trajectory of America This article continues to insert and assume that the narrative of Whites in America matter more and are superior to the reality of state of America going forward Sorry but this take no longer has validity nor currency in America, What is unfolding in America has little to do with the trajectory of Whites in America The focus of this article is obsolete and a red herring BLM	1617767800	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322939	30906544	GRH	New England	And, fascinating, that, of course, in spite of Mr. Pape’s finding regarding the 9/11 terrorists mostly not being religious fanatics but instead acting in response to military occupations, the mainstream of the Democratic Party, going back at least to Hillary and Biden’s votes in favor of the Iraq War, have consistently doubled and tripled down on military Keynesianism uber alles and more or less continuing the Bush-Cheney policies of neo-con, intervention-first regime change. Obama talked the talk in 2008, like he was going to end the wars, convincing millions of us, this voter included, to vote for him (and again, in 2012, given Romney, what other alternative) but instead Obama continued the Bush-Cheney wars his entire 8 years, with some troop variations. Could have wound the wars down during his 2nd term, providing Kurdish allies & others plenty of advance notice and special refugee status or via new refugee conventions with Europe; and in Afghanistan, since Osama Bin Laden had already been eliminated in the 1st term. Instead, continued them and expanded to new fronts that, like Iraq, had nothing to do with 9/11 and never attacked US soil (e.g., Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine, Honduras, etc.) It’s just intervene, intervene, intervene. Trillions of tax dollars to support continuing military occupations that motivated the 9/11 terrorists. Peter Beinart said it well in Atlantic article last summer: Biden has zero intention of touching the military-industrial complex.	1617767890	3	1	FALSE	FALSE
112322615	68992690	Harvey Sparks	California	Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson, is pretty much all you need to know on this subject.	1617764600	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322868	23693325	Zipora	NJ	This is not peculiar to American history alone. Wherever there has been a “foreign group” migrating into “someone else’s” country or land these kinds of resentments become the basis of “resistance movements”. Why should America be different from a social-psychological standpoint than most of the world, other than its original republican ideals from the late 1700’s which were split-minded in actual law and practice? Reconstruction was to make America a bi-racial and ethnic society. Multi-ethnic and religious immigration is making America multi cultural against a “traditional” white population, many of whose ancestors were “outcasts” at one time too.	1617767175	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322732	99821119	Hair Furor	Newport	Fascism has been with us since the Industrial Revolution. We’ve seen before what happens when we let it erupt. Time to call it what it is.	1617765678	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322790	46160440	Thrasher	DC	Seasoned Black and Brown activists have for years writing and lecturing about the undercurrent of social unrest in America at its core is the deep rooted racial angst in White America to the presence and impact of Black and Brown Americans in the daily lives of Whites in America I expect more social and political tension , anxiety and animosity in America that has racial foundations BLM	1617766352	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322819	63895549	Sarah	Seattle	Both sides of my family came to this continent in the early 1600’s bearing the colonialist notion of superiority to other races and the right to take whatever was before them. In short order one side of the family decided to possess people and did so until they were required to stop in the 1860’s. In 1941 my mother was taught in college (a college town five miles from Appomattox) that other races were biologically inferior. She believed it until (to her credit) she realized she’d been taught wrong. This country was founded as a colonial outpost whose underlying principles espoused liberty and independence but whose racist beliefs, policies and practices are a deep foundation. To rid ourselves of this chronic national illness we have to work intelligently, diligently, fiercely and lifelong.	1617766701	19	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322695	17261625	Edward B. Blau	Wisconsin	In central Wisconsin the death rate is a multiple of the birth rate, the working age population has significantly decreased and the median age has increased. If it were not for an influx of Hispanics the meat packing plants and the large dairy farms would be hard pressed to keep operating. Young people who leave for a college education rarely come back. Church attendance at main stream religions is decreasing while evangelical churches spring up everywhere. All of this has been very unsettling to people who for all of their lives thought that nothing would affect their towns and their personal status. This is the decreasing demographic that vote Republican but love Trump. I do not foresee how there is anything that government can do to reverse the population drain.	1617765373	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112322621	33160082	David Godinez	Kansas City, MO	All of human history turns on a struggle for power, between family groups, tribes, races, religions, nation-states, and so on. The January 6th attack on the capitol was no different. In modern times in the US, this struggle is mostly represented by political combat in the legislatures and the executive offices of the states and the federal government, but it is still just a primal fight for control; the startling thing about the capitol breach was the reversion to primitive tactics, similar to what happens during riots on the street. People can be expected to object when they sense a loss of societal and cultural traction; the study discussed in this article is just a discovery of the obvious.	1617764688	13	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322388	59661695	Jefferson Village	New York	The events of the past several months amounted with violence by an outgoing incompetent dictator. Trump the sore loser attempted to overturn election results, a violent mob assaulted the Capitol as Congress met to formalize his defeat, and lawmakers failed to hold the outgoing leader accountable for his reckless actions. The blind loyalty that ignores abuse of power and corruption by unaccountable leaders. I live in a town run by the most incompetent, corrupt Republicans who have no moral compass, and have put the past events under the rug or what the neighbor calls “the silent majority”. I will have to remind the local Republican party of their lack of diversity, lies, lack of decency, as they descend on my building complex and poll site like a bunch of pariahs.	1617763055	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112322329	64791510	4eyedbuzzard	Ft Worth, TX	Unlike the dinosaurs, these folks see the asteroid coming. As such they will resist to the end - but the result will be the same. It’s inevitable.	1617762720	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321739	76999566	Joanne	Colorado	Please stop including me–a white woman–under your umbrella demographic of “White People”. I am absolutely not a part of this demographic, at least not by choice. Yes, I’m a white woman, but one who has experienced a lifetime of discrimination and repression. “White People” is the last group on earth I want to be associated with. Change the narrative to “Scared White Men Who Were Born on First and Think They Hit a Home Run” and I’m in complete agreement with Feuer’s assessment of why January 6th happened and what it means for us as a people moving forward.	1617759203	8	2	FALSE	FALSE
112321706	25937434	Raoule51	Columbus OH	I remember during a 2016 Republican debate George Pataki brought up the “know nothings,” in response to a Trump comment. I was pleased and understood the reference. How precent that comment is.	1617759003	2	1	FALSE	FALSE
112321568	58946176	Pnut	The Dirty South	What are they worried about ? That they will be treated just like everyone else ? or that they will be treated how they have treated others ? Growing up and living most of my life in the deep South , I see it all of the time. White guys always think that they ought to be in charge and listened to in every situation. From work to socializing. As if it’s the natural order of things . The " white guy is the boss " mentality is strong. They. get uncomfortable and mad when they aren’t in charge.	1617758180	26	2	FALSE	FALSE
112321415	63953823	Erica Etelson	CA	I’ve read elsewhere that a majority of those arrested are facing financial crises–that doesn’t mean they’re poor by any means, but it does suggest a stress factor that may have played a contributing role. For example, the woman who was shot had a struggling pool cleaning company. Makes me wonder how many middle-class people fear slipping into poverty and how that makes them vulnerable to racist dog whistles.	1617757157	10	1	FALSE	FALSE
112321520	12517901	SM	Brooklyn	Going further with Mr. Pape’s data, I’d like to know more about these non-Hispanic white segments and the causes/effects of the population decreases. Was it due to retirement? Layoffs? Work relocation? Did the counties’ populations remain stagnant? Did more immigrants move in and start their own businesses? The more information we have, the better we can deprogram and educate these aggrieved bigots that “Others” are not out to get them.	1617757866	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321456	71803431	Fulton	Cambridge	I’m in graduate school to become an elementary school teacher, and I believe that a lot of this has to do with how – over decades – we have treated education and topics that are “safe” for the classroom. In addition to critical questions about how a society works to address the many shameful and unjust aspects of its history, this study makes me want to ask schools to focus more on the following: how we teach our elementary school students about politics and, even more importantly, civic engagement; the meaning of truth and fact and fallacy, and how to spot false equivalency; and how what is just, fair, or equitable is not always what those with power aim to uphold, and how those who work hardest are not often those rewarded for their labors. The Little Red Hen would be my starting book for this curriculum.	1617757418	11	1	FALSE	FALSE
112321569	95443298	John moore	Indiana	This crazy thing is—they have it easier than anyone. Imagine if Black folks or Brown folks or Red folks went to the Capitol and acted a fool. What WOULDN’T the police do?!?! These domestic terrorists get over—hardly ANY (less than 300) of them got in trouble over what happened at the Capitol. Watch, watch what happens if the Floyd case goes left and Black folks take to the streets—watch what happens. We live in a pluralistic democracy—get with the program.	1617758191	13	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321270	52851130	CT in CT	CT	White men have controlled the Western world, through weaponry, the military, and business connections for the last couple millennia. Colonial occupation of every continent but Antarctica, plus subjugation of women and anyone else outside of the White Male group have left the rest of us struggling to live within those confines. Now that some White Males sense that they will lose their control, they are filling bandwidth with threats and whining about what victims they are. You know what, guys? It’s time for you to “man up” and deal with the situation as responsible adults, not as temper tantrum-throwing five-year-olds.	1617756230	22	4	FALSE	FALSE
112321269	61988003	Riverwoman	Hamilton, Mi	As long as the right wing can convince people to hate and fear minorities, they can keep pumping money into the pockets of the1% and picking the pockets of the rest of us.	1617756220	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321213	23269197	Peggysmom	New York	Jan 6th came as a shock. While most readers of the Times are educated college graduates they don’t face job competition for their well paying jobs from immigrants like the uneducated peoples from these towns who have lost their way of life not only job wise but quality of life wise. Instead we just say welcome new immigrants and that’s just too bad for you whose families have been living here for generations. There has to be better understanding from both sides.	1617755876	8	3	FALSE	FALSE
112321250	46990870	Kay Sieverding	New Hampshire	This polarization is one reason why it is important to maintain National Public Radio, Public Television, and similar programming and why we need Internet news access for everyone. My father was a liberal Democrat. He listened to National Public Radio and read the New Republic. He voted for Kennedy. Then when he was old he moved to Florida and didn’t find National Public Radio there. It was hard for him to read and change the station. His wife put Fox News on all the time and within just a few years he became much more conservative. One reason that this segment of voters aren’t reading the New York Times is the cost of subscribing.	1617756091	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320969	37338608	Tanksleyd	Philadelphia	1787- January 6th The Great Compromise This would all be so much easier Than maintaining Washington’s cherry tree If we admit America’s built 100% on the backs of Blacks	1617754062	2	1	FALSE	FALSE
112321012	88130976	Penelope	WA	So basically, the Republicans failed on all their promises - 4 years of MAGA and a Tea Party Republican Congress for nearly all of the past 10 years and white guys got nothing.	1617754453	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321048	64579547	Howard Herman	Skokie, Illinois	Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Ted Cruz and their assorted colleagues are all laughing at the Capitol rioters now. Mr. Trump and his group egged them on with lies and hate, telling them how America has turned against them. They whipped them up into a frenzy and then turned them loose to do Mr. Trump’s violent and illegal bidding. Now these rioters will face their day of reckoning with the American justice system. And Donald Trump and his group have left them to rot. Let this be another lesson to the Donald Trump supporters who have chosen to put their faith and trust in the hands of a maniacal despot. Perhaps now, many more of them will drop him as they will see him clearly as the phony and fraud he is. Only time will tell.	1617754771	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320841	26418147	jim emerson	Seattle	Wait: You’re attempting to draw conclusions from a random survey of “380 or so” people (a small sample of those present) who have so far been arrested, based on someone’s speculation that the areas in which they live “were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture?” How does one qualify and quantify the “awashness” of attitudes in a particular geographical location? And how does that translate into rioting, assault, and murder? The white supremacist insurrectionists were quite open about their motives and their feelings (they wore them on their t-shirts and tattoos), but where’s the evidence that their grievances had anything to do with where they live? They are a cult, no different from any other cult, and they said before, during, and after their murderous rampage that they were doing exactly what their messiah had told them they must do to “save their country.” Social media doesn’t care about what neighborhood you reside in. These were people from all over the place who made plans, in full view on popular commercial internet platforms, to converge on D.C. that day because their Grand Dragon promised it would be “wild” and it was their duty to make it so.	1617752911	4	2	FALSE	FALSE
112320891	90866742	Itsmanbearpig	Guysimserial	Yes, people getting upset about losing unearned status is not good but understandable. Barbara Ehrenreich has called this the “psychological wage” of white people. It’s not right but the deal used to be that poor whites got to be poor and think they were better than non-whites. That has changed. But before you point fingers. Ask yourself if you are opposed to change and losing status? If you live in a nice neighborhood, do you defended against change or new development based on character of the place? This is hyper localized MAGA i.e., my neighborhood was great when it was X. Are you a legacy or hoping your children will be a legacy at a university, profession, trade union? Are those spots going to your children and keeping someone else out? There are all kinds of unearned privilege and people doing status maintenance to maintain that privilege. The first example here is far and away the worst but the difference in degree does not absolve the latter of their actions. 	1617753309	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321077	78986647	Meghan	Colorado	Fear of obsolescence among many white men has reached an all new high, and I’m afraid it’s going to get much worse before it gets better. I’m grateful for the more enlightened white male who isn’t threatened by the Other at every turn.	1617754999	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321105	83006002	Uni	USA	At any large university now, the hiring goals for tenure track faculty and the acceptance goals for PhD students have been changed. Regardless of merit or credentials, BIPOC candidates are openly favored over most white females and always over white males. Look at any university faculty website.	1617755178	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112321125	17892624	William Donelson	Memphis TN	Why, oh why, are we endlessly tormented by Conservatives? Answer here: – Evolution Cannot See the Future – … so it produces a wide range of behaviours and skills from birth for the best chance at some of the parents begetting successful offspring. It is a genetic gamble against good or bad times coming. A billion years of evolution has created a spectrum of human, from insanely greedy through to hopelessly charitable. During famine and bad times, the selfish and greedy are more likely to survive and pass on their (selfish) genes to the future. During good times and plenty, the charitable build societies and civilisations freely and openly for the good of all, and in such a society most human’s genes (including the selfish) are likely to be passed on to the future. We might not imagine having children with greedy personna, but if we were starving, we might have no choice.	1617755283	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320840	53326093	Susan	San Francisco	I would like everyone to ask themself this question. What makes someone American? I suggest both political parties ask yourself this question and figure out the common denominator NOW! Let’s NOT start with the equal argument because we all know it’s who has money vs who doesn’t ? Equality is aspirational, not real. Human behavior is I have it, you don’t. Throughout the ages. Not all whites have privilege. Education IS the great divide. For too many regardless of race, Education matters. Can an immigrant bring their culture and language to the US and still respect others of different languages, races, faiths, sexual orientation? Ask Native Americans how well that went, my spouse is Native, not so much. What makes a bigot? Regardless of race? Fear. If the oppressed gains power, will they become the oppressor? Human behavior, says they will. Common language helps in understanding each other and may be a good place to start. At least it opens the door to understanding. yes we need a common language! Get real, the great melting pot does not melt. Like so many nations before, I’m not optimistic. Labels will not help, too easy to put a person in a box. Human behavior is what it is…you can’t teach respect,civility unless you show it to each other. These days I see little of it. Communities are rarely coming together. So what is the common denominator? Trust me the political corruption on both sides, will not answer this. Perhaps start with your neighbor. It’s a start.	1617752908	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320958	63544487	Leading Edge Boomer	Ever warmer and drier Southwest	This essay, “Anger Distorts American Politics,” from 2016 characterizes, except for the last section, the situation in the US today. <a href=“http://www.drsunshine.org/20160302-GOPAngries.htm” target="_blank">http://www.drsunshine.org/20160302-GOPAngries.htm</a>;	1617753973	0	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320853	75795790	Elissa F	Buffalo	To people who are privileged, loss of privilege doesn’t feel like equality; it feels like oppression.	1617752995	188	17	TRUE	FALSE
112320928	52760545	Ann Manor	Planet Earth	White supremacists are afraid of the things that will be required to be successful. Immigrants do have advantages that white “native” US Citizens don’t have. 1) most of us speak fluently, at least two languages 2) we are happy with lower wages. I’m a Hispanic who speaks, as you can already tell, English, Spanish, and French, and have a Masters degree from my native country (cheaper and no student loan debt). Other immigrants know their native languages and learn English in months (thanks to the survival instinct) and are highly educated. In a way, yes, immigrants are taking Americans job, because we study and work very, very hard. In Los Angeles, CA I saw many American parents investing so their children taking a second language, ANY language that is not English. They know that one language is NOT enough in the future job market. It’s a Brave New World and if the US doesn’t invest in Education and new languages in the Public School curriculum, it is going to get ugly for Americans. You will no longer be competitive in a global market	1617753643	3	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320651	54095408	grace thorsen	syosset, ny	why are we ‘really at the beginning’ of understanding this? The Oklahoma city bombing was forty years ago, or something, and even then white separatist groups wanted to attack the federal building WAY before Mcveh adopted their plans. This is old old white american predjudice.. We can’t keep being gobsmacked by it’s existence and tendency to violence..	1617751481	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320619	54619841	Mark Steg	Fairview PA	We hear much about White privilege; what about White decline? The “deaths of despair” are nearly all White men.	1617751223	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320811	48128345	David	Seattle	Why did Mr. Pape think that “economic anxiety” would be the driving reason behind the attack? It’s been obvious since 2017 that racism is the driving core of Trumpism/Republicanism.	1617752670	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320789	65385475	Susan Audrey	Normal	I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in the 60’s. White Flight to escape from the Great Migration from (mostly) Mississippi was real. As the neighbors sold their houses, my father declared that we would not be moving. Unfortunately, I was accosted on the way home from junior high and my mother insisted we move further south, to a white neighborhood with a brutal black tenement neighborhood close by. Throughout my childhood, my parents and I didn’t blame the African-Americans who moved in. Even though their southern accents were hard to understand (and vice versa, probably) we saw them as neighbors and later, friends. My father, 95 years old, to this day, attends church in Englewood neighborhood, by Zoom during the pandemic, but before 2020, in person. The ignorance of the whites who fled Englewood was total. They didn’t know or care about the people who sought a place to live in a decent neighborhood. They only wanted to keep it White. My brothers were part of this racist feeling. They were beat up during the change and have never opened their hearts or minds to the goodness of black people. Bottom line, Yes, many white people feel Poor Me, which is a shame. Black and brown people have suffered so much. Yes, there are whites who didn’t make it in life, but that is no reason to cater to them if they hurt other people through their ignorance and hate. Keep trying to educate, educate, educate.	1617752523	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320801	46323776	Patsy	Arizona	I wonder how we convince people to not fear people of color? How do we convince news networks that spread this fear to quit doing that? I believe it is in our human psyche to be fearful of others. I sure hope we can overcome this. The hate filled news organizations (Fox, NewsMax) could really help by changing their tone. And programs in schools to teach understanding of other people.	1617752604	7	2	FALSE	FALSE
112320686	53196748	Global Charm	British Columbia	Let’s also ask how many of these people were “Christians”, or otherwise influenced by magical beliefs. When you look at enduring conflicts like Protestant versus Catholic in Northern Ireland, or Shiite versus Sunni in parts of the Muslim world, it’s pretty clear that skin color is not the main dividing factor. Race-based analysis might be simple and plausible, but it’s often wrong. Its enduring appeal is a sad commentary on the maturity of American political analysis.	1617751701	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320655	63500513	JH	New Haven, CT	Indeed, white grievance undergirded by fear of cultural dislocation is the single most animating issue for the MAGA crowd … people who conflate national identity with whiteness.	1617751488	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320753	76440468	Allen	Phila	Well, I do understand this! If you did (or do right now) a survey of the very public regard for white people, especially white men, in nearly all media, there has been (and is, even more so now) a pronounced, even arched, wholesale, ongoing condemnation of white male-dom. This is the predictable pushback of the , bottom rung of the constructive majority, born of the primal drive to avoid being done in by a mislead and misinformed minority. Having said that , I believe that their action was treasonous, and deserves the full punitive brunt of the law. You do not storm my Capitol! Put that energy into a reasonable, full- throated centrist rebuttal of far-left extremism and challenge (effectively) the hypocritical logic and reverse discrimination–without succumbing to far-right nonsense and violence.	1617752203	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320647	73643782	kshizzle	Chicago	I grew up in one of these all white, rural communities. There is very much a bully mentality even among adults, and property damage is a common method of intimidation. Group think flourishes in areas like this, while high unemployment and boredom result in otherwise “reasonable” people cosplaying as their twisted version of what a patriot is…	1617751454	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320717	68263038	R	USA	Exploitation of the fear of people not like them by demagogues and other opportunists is perhaps the biggest problem facing humanity, and probably has been for as long as humans have lived in organized societies.	1617751915	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320656	103328898	Dan	Oregon	Yeah, it’s called White Supremacy, the founding principal of our republic. Also, a phrase not used in this article. Mr. Pape argues that “additional information” may be needed to resolve this issue, rather than just law enforcement. We could start by consistently calling it what it is.	1617751490	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320640	53707414	Puny Earthling	Iowa	And here I thought The Great Replacement referred to eliminating humans and replacing them with pod people. Come to think of it, based on the behavior of the radical far-right, that process may be well underway.	1617751332	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320325	63638092	Hal	nyc	What is a white person? The flaw in this study is reliance on old definitions of race that use “white” as a stand in for some sort of majority or dominant identity. There is no common history of white Americans. No common traditions. Being white just means not being any other race. And don’t get me started on middle class or upper middle class. These are equally meaningless descriptions in our complex economy. Everyone who isn’t living paycheck to paycheck assumes they are at least middle class.	1617749123	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320414	58806381	Suzanne Wheat	North Carolina	I am a 74 year old white woman. I struggled when I was young at low paying jobs. But I never felt that some “other” people were not worthy or threatening my way of life. I have always believed that class trumps any other descriptor of American stratified society. It’s a great thing that race has come to the forefront. Blacks fighting for themselves is a long, and ongoing struggle in a world in which no one else historically has been fighting for them. What they want is to be on a equal footing in this society and they are demanding recognition. What I see is that they are fighting for me too. I have never felt concerned that someone else would rise above me in income or status. When I think of myself, my race is the last thing that concerns me. Authoritarian thinkers always want someone to blame because they somehow know better than others. Trump pushed such stuff to the forefront in his very skilled attempts to split us into warring camps. He made promises that did not materialize and his voters are angry. You would be too if you had not see through his psychological circus.	1617749737	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320730	87229542	See It	For What It Really Is	Funny how the stuff that usually happens to the historically disenfranchised are happening to white people, and they show their displeasure with an insurrection. The Tucker Carlson spin machine is so much more obvious now that the latent racism is laid out for everyone to see.	1617752059	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320736	92687369	Eli	Dallas	Every time this extremely obvious point is made, a bunch of liberal white people make a big go of being so lost and confused that their fellow white people are the way they are, and immediately place as much distance as they can from them…“Oh those poor and uneducated trumpers, worried they’ll be replaced. Perhaps if they were more educated…”. No. Trumpers are your brothers, fathers, sisters, cousins, best friends, pastors, coworkers and church congregation. Stop pretending it’s poor uneducated white people when all the data reveals that it’s comfortable, well off racists making up the base, the same ones you break bread and go on vacations with. Not some theoretical racist trucker from kentucky.	1617752092	8	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320407	67934281	RX	Bay Area	White privilege is real. I want to state that upfront. But here are two White families that I know: My family. One grandfather (French American) was so poor that he used to run along side the trains in town to pick up coal to sell. He finished 8th grade. My other grandfather suffered such poverty after his own father’s death (died of suicide in the Depression - Irish American) that he lost two toes from too tight shoes and the inability to go to the doctor. Both of these men attained middle class economics through military careers, including one grandfather who graduated from college. My own father crafted a career where he made a lot of money with a two year degree (this is where the White privilege starts to matter). And then the trajectory stopped - none of the men in my generation of my family went to college. White Family #2: Anglo American, many generations of educators and doctors, a couple hundred years of east coast and midwest elite prep schools. Ivy educations. No one in the family isn’t rich. I don’t understand why we can’t talk about class more.	1617749683	19	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320515	136215990	Someone is Beautiful	USA	The younger generations of Americans will be our salvation. They are less concerned with race, and more likely to be biracial or multiracial. As they become more influential in politics and their careers—note the response to Georgia’s voting laws by high level Black executives—we will become a better country. Right now it’s a race to the tipping point. I’m cautiously betting they’ll come through in time. SiB	1617750333	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320648	67348891	Susan McHale	Greenwich CT	Is the DOJ actually going into States to find these insurrectionists? I always see articles in Connecticut, Massachusetts and other New England States who have caught people. But what about those States that actually voted primarily for Trump? Do State officials cooperate?	1617751455	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320683	68802864	Liber	NY	@Stuart: I disagree with your premise that hate is not the answer. I agree with Professor Paper,A visceral fear of Majority/Minority demographics.	1617751651	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320471	46713396	lulugirl765	Midwest	Before you conclude these people have no “reason” to their thinking, what are the chances they have experienced or know of a “diversity” hire in the workplace over the past 30 years? One in which the candidate was not qualified but ticked that diversity box? Or one where a number of candidates are qualified but the diversity determines who gets the job? Just look at the Biden administration and say there are no diversity hires. We can say “that’s what minorities have experienced forever,” and this is justice, but you can’t say that these white people are crazy and seeing nothing, or else we risk repeating the past and aren’t making true progress in fair hiring.	1617750052	4	4	FALSE	FALSE
112320518	73348263	Twain’s Ghost	Rocky Mountains	It should be clear to everyone (with an open mind) that Republicans are anti-democracy. They believe in minority - specifically all white - rule, and consider force to be an appropriate tool to use in gaining that power. The Republican Party should be disenfranchised and barred from participating in government, given they have no respect for the Constitution, laws, or norms.	1617750355	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320576	77029179	ABC	Flushing	The university of Maryland reported that a black female is 2600 percent more likely to get into medical school as a white male with the same test scores and grades	1617750795	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320590	53707414	Puny Earthling	Iowa	“They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.” Right, because being arrested for participating in a violent insurrection is a sure sign of upward mobility.	1617750885	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320344	40772076	n	fort worth	these are people who are convinced that America “owes them”.	1617749296	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320412	976975	Nancy	midwest	When I read of the folks from Frisco, TX identified during the insurrection, I looked up the town. It had a population of 3,000 in 1980 and now has a population of 211,000, truly an astounding growth rate. Frisco is only 67% non-Hispanic white, 8% Black and 10% Asian. Many, many Whites surely haven’t been there much more than 10-15 years. Why do they think they are losing their place in Frisco? They never really had much of one. What Pape didn’t uncover but is the case for the Frisco rioters is that they live financially precarious lives and may be pretty sore about it. With growth like Frisco has seen maybe they thought they should be lording it over all others.	1617749712	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320553	63236703	Lawrence H Lewis	Ridgefield, WA	The fear of these white citizens is based primarily only on skin color. There isn’t any large organization attempting to organize all the people of color even for political purposes. They just need an enemy to vent their fears upon as directed by their favorite media/information sources. They are pawns.	1617750626	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320254	28404133	Chas Simmons	Jamaica Plain, MA	“The political scientist Robert Pape … expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession.” How could he think the insurgents who attacked the Capitol were economically motivated? Some at the peaceful demonstration may well have been, but the fanatics assaulting the Capitol police were surely from the neo-Confederate/neo-fascist fraction of the US public whose existence can be discovered merely from reading comments in Facebook. “a remarkable discovery: Most of the [Arab] bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations.” Anyone who had read a few books on the Middle East already knew about Arab resentment of the effects of Western imperialism. Knew there were US troops on the Arabian Peninsula, knew of the thousands of Iraqi children who died due to the US-led embargo of water-purification chemicals. Even those who haven’t studied the area ought to know that in the modern world it is patriotism, not religion, that induces men to engage in mass violence and suicidal self-sacrifice. Was it religion that got the Marines to engage in near-suicidal self-sacrifice on the shores of Iwo Jima? No, it was American patriotism, a result of the Japanese attack on America. Arab terrorists may be darker-skinned, but they’re people, just like us. Why look for different explanations for their conduct?	1617748674	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320147	12898230	Joe Bastrimovich	National Park, NJ	"When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession. But instead he found something very different: Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture." Is Captain Obvious around? The only one who couldn’t figure out that it was all about race seems to be Political scientist Robert Pape. The rest of figured it on on……..January 6th.	1617748087	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318806	31468049	George NYC	NYC	After Black Americans receive reparation payments, the benefits from quotas and hiring preferences, eliminating competitive examinations for promotions what’s left? What more can be done by society to provide the means for success? Keep in mind by pushing White privilege as an excuse for one not maximizing their potential in life, you’re guaranteeing a lack of acceptance by White America. Asian Privilege and Indian Privilege are soon to be added to the lexicon of BLM. Where does it end?	1617741749	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316963	12889273	manta666	new york, ny	‘“If all of this is really rooted in the politics of social change, then we have to realize that it’s not going to be solved — or solved alone — by law enforcement agencies,” Mr. Pape said. “This is political violence, not just ordinary criminal violence, and it is going to require both additional information and a strategic approach.”’ Joe Biden’s strategic approach: work to restore a broad middle class accross racial lines wile taxing the ultra-rich and corporations to start to restore a sense of fairness and balance to our brutal “winner take all” society. Go Joe.	1617734450	12	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317571	77989539	Jonathan Katz	St. Louis	The left wing of the Democratic party has encouraged the “Replacement” story by promising that demographic changes will make it a permanent majority.	1617736847	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320289	65641232	PS	Massachusetts	This is spreading propaganda and fueling racial tensions. And totally one sided. Stop making this about race. It could be about tradition, lifestyle, food, leisure habits, etc. It could be sentimentality, wanting one’s kids to have the childhood one remembers (putting the conversation about the clarity of the memory aside). People travel all of the world to see communities that haven’t changed – what is so wrong with members of, say, a small American town wanting to hold onto their heritage and history vs morph into something unfamiliar? Don’t we want to see the farms in Vermont? Or lobster ships in Maine? You need to get a birds-eye view of this tension and tell the truth about it, instead of showing pictures of crazy white people. Yes, there are the lunatics and many of the showed up at the capital and yes there are towns that don’t want newcomers for more unhealthy reasons than mentioned above. But it is by no means the whole story.	1617748907	10	4	FALSE	FALSE
112318546	5310634	Vanessa Hall	Millersburg Mo.	Mr. Pape said: “You see a common pattern in the Capitol insurrectionists. They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.” Equality feels like oppression to those who have been accustomed to privilege. Why do so many white people feel the desperate need to be “better” than the rest of everyone, while at the same time looking for some ‘other’ to blame for their own lot in life?	1617740597	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320095	59586902	ZAW	Near the Gulf of Mexico in Texas	This should stand as a pivotal piece of research into racism in the US. So much focus is given to the sickness of slavery that metastasized in the South before the civil war, but I would argue that modern racism owes more to the Know Nothings and Copperheads of the 19th Century North. . In the Civil War, many northern politicians (the Know Nothing’s) stood against the migration of blacks to the North. Many others (the Copperheads) would have allowed the South to keep its slaves in order to end the war. Both groups, but especially the Know Nothing’s were horrifically racist. They appealed to working class northern whites with threats that the blacks would take over their jobs, their cities, even their families. . Fast forward to today. It isn’t freed slaves moving north but impoverished Latino immigrants. The response, however, is the same: they are up in arms over the perceived invasion. And worse: now the mentality has been baked into them for 160 years. And yet still worse than that: it comes combined with industrial decline and economic stagnation in blue collar parts of the country. A socially toxic mix.	1617747748	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317761	61118192	shstl	MO	While I abhor the actions and innate racism of these people, I also understand how they can look at the US over the past several decades and feel that they have indeed “lost” something. Like many families in St. Louis, mine followed the path of white flight over several generations, first from the city to the inner ring suburbs, then to farther out in the suburbs, then finally to the exurbs across the river and increasingly further west. The neighborhoods we grew up in are all now filled with crime and poverty, looking more like bombed out war zones than the communities we knew and loved. There are many complex reasons for this, of course. And white people certainly bear plenty of blame. But that still doesn’t take away the painful visceral response to seeing a place that you held so dearly essentially destroyed. These emotions are valid and should be recognized and openly discussed without shame. And if they aren’t and grievance is allowed to fester……well, you wind up with somebody like Trump for president and a bunch of angry white dudes storming the Capitol.	1617737579	7	2	FALSE	FALSE
112318984	72965231	Gary Fedeli	Pennsylvania	Some of them who stormed the Capital have already lost or have an unfounded fear of losing their white privilege. Are some of them middle class who are slipping down the economic ladder, instead of climbing up? Are they jealous when they see an Hispanic or Asian prosper? It is said that poor whites fought for the South’s right to keep slaves, so that they wouldn’t be at the bottom of the ladder.	1617742476	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319256	55897090	Janice Smith	Palo Alto	Majority Minority is a naive phrase that implies that “minorities” are a monolithic group. Study after study has shown that policy priorities differ substantively between immigrant communities Hispanic, Asian and Afro descendant and slave descendant African Americans. These differences were reflected in the 2020 votes. The Times needs to do better on these issues.	1617743709	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319302	8074641	sterileneutrino	NM	They see a decline in their status in the future because they know how they have worked to suppress the status of immigrants in the the past and present. “… right-wing theory called the Great Replacement, which holds that minorities and immigrants are seeking to take over the country …” Well, which part? How many white baseball players are there? How many football players? How many basketball players? The complaints about those replacements have mostly faded. Next, how many white custodians? Street-sweepers? …. Don’t worry, you won’t be replaced unless you want to be!	1617743940	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319497	90624417	Stale Frybread	Oakland	Brown & Black folks have been trying to tell everyone that the violence of the right was about race, not class, for a long time. The media, including this paper, gave racists a pass and claimed the violence was/is about economics. It’s not.	1617744774	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318302	17432891	Astrochimp	Seattle	The Times is quick to note things like “…right-wing media outlets continue to stoke fear…” and is correct to do so because the radical-right is divisive and destructive. But, did anyone else notice that all the BLM protests, riots, arson, looting etc. in late spring and summer 2020, over the pair of lies that a) the officer intended to cause the death of George Floyd and b) it was because of Floyd’s skin color, nearly re-elected Trump? Many “white” people see “black” people demanding special rights and receiving them, which is the equivalent of a racist attack on them. They’re not wrong about that, but this is an important source of the “replacement” and “annihilation” myths, which are nonsense. I ask the Times to acknowledge that racism and hate are multilateral problems, not unilateral, because that would bring us closer to a peaceful and more happy society.	1617739660	1	3	FALSE	FALSE
112318398	77444339	KS	Michigan	Poor black and brown people are the easy-to-identify scapegoats for the rich getting richer and automation and technology leaving all those behind who do not have competitive skills including some white workers. Manufacturers cannot fill many jobs due to unskilled workers and you have to have the coding skills to work in IT. I would much rather be in a position to learn the skills and have a good chance of getting the job after I learn them than to have the skills and still be denied the job.	1617740020	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319585	40303433	Ellen F. Dobson	West Orange, N.J.	We are all immigrants. Fear of losing control caused the murders of Native Americans, the murder of people of color who were used as slaves after they were forcefully brought here in dire conditions Anyone different than a white person was repellent and this received inhumane treatment. Nothing has appeared to change except the decreased population of whites. Fear mongering breeds violent attacks. This is our history and our present. It is only getting worse as the white population decreases and the ability to buy weapons of mass destruction increases. Yet no one seems to know how to deal with this effectively. So many lives lost.	1617745194	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318556	56859037	Ski bum	Colorado	The entire article seems to me to be a great definition of ‘white supremacy’ and racism. These folks will need to learn pluralism and how to assimilate themselves with their fellow Americans; otherwise they will lead disenfranchised lives with little hope of progress and happiness. Grow up Americans, we’re not called the melting pot of the world for no reason.	1617740620	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319151	48154828	Adam stoler	Bronx NY	Right wing fringe extremist behaviours have been mainstreamed Thank the Southern Strategy of Nixon & 50 years of fear mongering by the Republicans Add a dose of defunding public education( along with devaluing it) and we have a perfect storm of under and uneducated gun toting yahoos shoving their fears down our nation’s collective throats LCD now that’s a fine recipe for entering 3rd world status	1617743258	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319678	60698613	Lynne Langford	OH	Racism is not an exclusive club.	1617745555	1	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319848	77119639	Alicia	NM	Regardless that 90% of the Capitol rioters weren’t members of hate groups, I would label them and those who attended Trump’s rally white supremacists because their actions and words demonstrate their adherence to white entitlement. Trump, their hero, personifies this belief—a self-promoting TV star and “businessman” born into wealth, who never backs down, flaunts convention and law, lies, and insults without consequence. His supporters wanted to believe that the election had been stolen because they are the “White Lives Matter” without concern for the inequalities experienced by nonwhites. It’s all about their “American Dream.” It was “their House” that they invaded, vandalized, and defaced. They were the “Patriots” standing up for “their liberties.” Will it happen again? “Yes,” as Mr. Pape warned. As long as “entitled” white men with access to weapons of war believe that they are “Patriots” defending by might their “right” to be ignorant (close minded and uninformed), selfish (entitled by race), mean (intimidating by aggression and words), and gullible (believing what they want to believe). As long as social media and the true fake-news sources can confuse people (in the name of free speech) with lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories, who will stop them? As Mr. Pape stated, not law enforcement. Adding to that, not Congress where many pander to them for their votes, and probably not a politically-appointed judiciary. Who then? Just us.	1617746428	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318864	39291845	Sherry	Washington	Trump and his mob are the opposite of Reagan, who in his last speech as President, championed diversity: “I think it’s fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. … You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany, or Turkey, or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the earth, can come to live in America and become an American. … Other countries might seek to compete with us, but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on earth comes close. This I believe is the most important sources of America’s greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength, from every country and every corner of the world, and by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. … Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. … If we ever close the door to new Americans our leadership in the world would soon be lost.” <a href=“https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/ronald-reagans-final-presidential-speech-was-for-immigrants” target="_blank">https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/ronald-reagans-final-presidential-speech-was-for-immigrants</a>;	1617742006	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319264	21044881	Suzanne	California	Is it ok to say, I have zero empathy for these nasty white people who fear losing their privilege? I know lots more white people who embrace diversity, multiculturalism and all the other realities of America today - realities that make us a stronger, more interesting and more competitive country. I am white and so tired of reading headlines and articles “explaining” these racist, hateful people. Yes, trump was brilliant in tapping their anger and their votes, dragging them out from under the rocks they’d been slithering under. Please can we move beyond this tendency to keep “explaining” them? They are dangerous and need to be profiled, watched and stopped from another violent, treasonous attack on our democracy. We are up for that, right? To stop their violent treason? To stop over-explaining who they are? We know who they are. The rest of us, in all our multi-cultural diversity, are exhausted by their hate, racism, violence - and cheating to cling to power by any means necessary. Profile us and explain us more, please. Let us really understand how hard we must work to defeat these nasty people.	1617743757	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319681	82615867	There4IM	Michigan	Beyond the social factors surrounding the insurrection, one psychological underpinning of these actions lies in “zero-sum” thinking. I found this set of studies fascinating. <a href=“https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaay3761” target="_blank">https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaay3761</a>;	1617745564	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320023	55998315	Bruce	Denver CO	When is the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. going to grow a backbone and order Trump arrested?	1617747441	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320172	70397442	Sherry	Pittsburgh	How is this a shock or surprise. Trump supporters are racists, full stop. There never was any economic component to their embracing of one of the most bigoted, uniformed and entitled people ever to hold public office. And please stop writing articles -not this one- that seek to understand them.	1617748218	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318704	67116529	Tamza	No Cal	If you looked at any major US university science and engineering graduate program enrollments in the 1965-on period you would have predicted this. Less than 60pct, often less than 50pct, were white. Majority were South Asian and Asians. The business schools were teeming with whites - THAT is where the EASY-BUCK was. Now that is changing too. The ‘coloreds’ who migrated to the US paid their dues; now their children are reaping the rewards. Now the children, and grandchildren, are staying away from the sciences, and computing. Just like other issues in the US [sexual harassment] this will not go away by attacks on the capitol. Fundamental change, starting with education, will be needed.	1617741240	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319385	8407907	Lle	UT	Instead of took a MAGA field trip on January 06 those guys should stay home and try to make more babies.	1617744283	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319657	41748877	David	Tallahassee	They are afraid their race insufficient to command respect as they have been accustomed to. They may have to work harder as well and see minorities shoot past them in every way.	1617745482	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318647	104895642	Toby	Anchorage, Alaska	How does the new york times, and the author of this study, get from census data to the intentions of people who live in those places? I’m a white man, my children are bi-racial, and therefore counted as non-white by the census. Does the existence of my children somehow prove that my zip code is where the racist white people live? This is a bridge too far, if your readers want to believe that upper manhatten is where the good white people live and the remainder of the country is “there be racists”, knock yourself out. I’m sure you all can find the rationalization to get there. Keep dishing out red meat to your audience.	1617740973	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318602	67633122	Earthling	Earth	Another common factor among the insurrectionists is narcissism. Look at all the showing off – on Parler, Facebook, Twitter and in person. The bullying and aggression, including explosive rage among the most violent. The loud-mouthed pride in what they were doing. The “special snowflake” entitlement, shown in part by the shock and whining (cockroaches in jail! no organic food!) when they realize their unique wonderfulness won’t save them from facing consequences for their actions. The obsession focus on themselves to the exclusion of all others, including their own children. The inflated sense of self-importance. The “look at me!” bids for attention. The costumes, military cosplay, personal brands and nicknamed personas on display. (Q-Shaman anyone? “Baked Alaska” livestream? Bugzie the Don & Stephen Ignoramus?) The lack of empathy or ability to entertain other points of view. The lack of any sense of humor. Many of them were so invested in expressing their personal identities they wore work logos, state-flag badges, local-chapter militia patches and other identifiers while committing crimes, making it easy for the FBI to later identify them. But their narcissism is no surprise when their starting point was their devotion to the former Narcissist-in-Chief.	1617740795	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318628	14195106	Vin	Nyc	“When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession.” It is amazing - and a huge indictment on American media and academia - to see how once a narrative takes hold, nothing can dislodge it. Contrary to the dozens of NYT articles in the last four years of “working class Trump voters in diners,” it’s been well-documented - quite copiously, in fact - that the bulk of Trump support is not the mythical downtrodden white working class, but your typical Middle-American middle class (or above) suburban white family; often small business entrepreneurs. A Trump supporter is more likely to be a suburban small business owner with a pick up truck and a boat in the garage than a downtrodden laid-off factory worker. Like, this is not esoteric knowledge. One would expect academics and journalists to know this (given that randos on the internet do), and yet you guys created a different narrative five years ago that you are seemingly unable to leave behind.	1617740917	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319091	64668333	mike	San Francisco	-This whole article is pretty much based upon the conclusions of one researcher.. And some of those conclusions, like drawing parallels to early-American history, seem a bit simplistic & far-fetched. ..– Probably would be wise to take this with a big grain of salt. (Though apparently the NYT likes drinking the Kool-Aid)..	1617742970	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320301	20547404	J	Los Angeles	I, myself, as a white man, cannot WAIT for the “Great Replacement” and the end of white entitlement. Bring it on.	1617748974	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320303	58585713	Me in here	America. I think. I hope.	Losing out? How about an unjust and unfair playing field being just a little bit leveled! I have said many times.. the twice impeached election loser grifter convinced white people that something was stolen from them and he was going to get it back. Hating someone because they are not like you only serves to breed fear, isolation, perpetuate ignorance and prevents one from seeing what we have in common and someone else’s humanity. Pretty sad way to exist. I would wager that those FOMO (fear of missing out) people do not really know anyone in those groups they fear.	1617748990	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318631	74237338	Stuart	Alaska	Hold on a minute. Letting the Capitol Rioters be a stand in for all Republicans, all Trump voters, all people from middle America, all evangelicals or all anything is as wrong as when Fox News encourages someone with a slogan or sign to represent all black people, all liberals or what have you. Please recognize that these people are a small fringe, whipped up by Right Wing media and social media, and that even some of these rioters may be decent people led into doing hateful stupid things. Hate isn’t the answer on either side.	1617740920	80	19	TRUE	FALSE
112319416	48154828	Adam stoler	Bronx NY	ironically, the “free market” system, as applied to society and economics allows for expansive, close to unlimited growth Why then all the proponents of these fringe ideologies acting like it’s zero sum game?	1617744412	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319528	28320416	Tim	Milwaukee	It’s strange to hear this zero sum attitude. Whatever happened to the trickle down mantra “a rising tide lifts all boats”? I can almost hear someone saying " I’m all for equality except for those other folks".	1617744921	3	2	FALSE	FALSE
112319218	37566340	Larry Saxxon	San Francisco	This issue (true equality) will either make or break this country. No more time left to entertain "alternative narratives, vs. looking in the mirror of our souls as a nation. Hopefully, before it’s too late! Like the clime challenge, we don’ have that much time left to correct the course!	1617743550	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319608	80819132	Misplaced Modifier	Former United States of America	I think the entrenched racism of whites in southern states is different from what’s happening “up north.” I’ve been browsing reader comments and from what I can tell there are indeed racists (hatred based on skin color), but most of the comments I read from states like PA, WI, MI, MO etc are based on: fears surrounding competition for employment, housing, natural resources/ space and taxpayer resources; and a desire to live in an economically and culturally (not racially but perhaps also religiously) homogenous society. I don’t think we will ever be able to reach the southern racist people, especially once they have developed beyond childhood. But if we want to build bridges to the other group, we should start by ending illegal immigration and work on restoring the middle class. We also need billionaires to start paying taxes. We should create a public works program and ensure social services are helping and putting American citizens back to work so we can rebuild our middle class. Help our own citizens, our homeless, children, elderly, vets, poor and and put an end to illegal immigration and the related policies that allow tens of millions of them to remain in this country. If we do these things I think we will see equilibrium restored and the populist uprising will settle down once a majority of people feel more secure. But the majority of Americans can’t feel secure when both billionaires and illegal immigrants are using up our government resources.	1617745272	13	2	FALSE	FALSE
112319054	32297946	gw	usa	What happened at the Capitol was shocking and despicable. But you can’t say modern racism was solely to blame. Its as old as the hills - whenever an established group feels it is being displaced by others they don’t relate to, for whatever reason, the reaction can be territorial. Social animals will ferociously defend their turf. Inter-tribal Native American warfare was brutal even before European colonization. Urban gentrification ignites reverse racism. Gang violence infests cities. Etc. Whole fields of sociology, and Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, dig into instincts of tribalism, territoriality and “kin selection.” What happened at the Capitol was indefensible, and can never be allowed to happen again. We could start by acknowledging the tribal nature of human and animal behaviour that goes beyond racism.	1617742753	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319222	76602059	In Your Face	USA	I just finished watching ‘13th’ on Netflix. A documentary concerning the Prison Industrial Complex. Commentary on the movie ‘Birth of a Nation’ and how it sparked racial tensions, again. I highly recommend this Documentary for those who want to better understand the precarious position we as American Citizens on facing.	1617743571	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319296	67332269	Slate Hardon	Cincinnati	In 2010 and the emergence of the Tea Party and then in 2016 and MAGA, there has been endless tomes ascribing white political backlash to everything from recession to robotics. Academics and Op-Ed writers have gone to great lengths to deny the obvious: it’s not recession, it’s not robotics, it is about race. More specifically, it’s about white primacy in politics, in the economy and in the culture. It has been the case since the 1960s, and was given political power through the Republican use of race and white identity to create an electoral machine that wins elections. The Republicans can’t quit white identity politics. Now it is the only way they can maintain power. We are reaping the whirlwind. The current disarray among the opposition to Republican politics can be resolved if we stopping making excuses for white backlash—it’s about cancel culture or “socialism”—and we accept the facts that it’s about race. We have a majority of the country that believe in a positive, progressive future. It’s time to organize the majority for political power. And move beyond white identity politics, and the Republican Party and the dead enders that form their most militant base.	1617743929	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319457	17869631	Mark	Long Beach	Can a multi-ethnic state riven with hostility and bitterness survive? I know! Let’s examine history to see how this has unfolded in the past. This constant focus on race is dangerous. A DisUnited States is unlikely to be a better place for all.	1617744611	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319604	52729395	Mort Dingle	Packwood, WA	Ironically, despite the United States having the second-best education system globally, it consistently scores lower than many other countries in benchmarks such as math and science. According to the Business Insider report in 2018, its education ranking was 38th in math scores and 24th in science. So we pay for a second rate education and the results are all the problems our author details…we had President who did not believe in science and we got his people who cannot discern a lie from the truth…	1617745259	1	3	FALSE	FALSE
112319697	103310818	David Olasov	New York	A bunch of years ago, I did an analysis of the Dixiecrat Presidential election in South Carolina. The vote, by county for Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat head of ticket, was directly proportional to the percentage of black residents in each county. The more (non-voting) black citizens in a county, the higher the vote for Sen. Thurmond. I was astonished. I shouldn’t have been.	1617745633	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319362	1889794	Mark	New York, NY	I would like to know more about the methodology of Pape’s study. What conditions need to be satisfied for the Times to report that a “study finds” that people think or feel, or are motivated in, a certain way? There is a reference to polling in the second paragraph. And we are told that Pape found a correlation between a certain kind of decline in population, on the one hand, and being a county that is more likely to be the source of an insurrectionist, on the other. But that is not a psychological study. There can be a correlation between a certain factor and a certain behavior without the motivation for the behavior consisting in a psychological attitude toward the factor. If the data on which Pape’s conclusions are based consist of polling, what were the questions people were asked? Or is the conclusion about people’s fears more of a hypothesis on Pape’s part?	1617744189	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319459	59503817	Night Sparrow	Not where I want	Has it occurred to them that a lot of these the non-Hispanic white population were the most likely to produce insurrectionists that its not just people of color or immigrants who right now are very upset with them? I for one am a white person who had had a lot of the financial and employment problems they face but I know that to solve the problems for me the best thing to do is to work with people of color and immigrants because they are interested in the changes that will help me not what they want that seems to hurt them as well as me. If they want my sympathy they are going to have to start backing what will actually help them rather than ruining it for everyone.	1617744612	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319677	57299399	Foster Furcolo	Massachusetts	When I was 12, my family lived in Paris for a year. The Parisians seemed to hate us, and I didn’t understand why. I’d always been fascinated by people from abroad, and I’d often talk to them. Now I do understand it. Paris was overrun with Americans. I feel the same about the US having way too many immigrants at this time (43 million–two NY State equivalents plus 3 million have come during the last 30 years). We Democrats need to have these numbers reduced. The backlash to seeing many towns going from almost all American to mostly Spanish speaking is part of what put the former guy in the White House. The NYT and Politico have both had articles this year showing that a majority of Americans wants less immigration, and more border security, and polls are coming out just about every week backing this up. It would be a disaster for us to lose Capitol Hill, but the Biden immigration plan, which would DOUBLE legal immigration to the equivalent of a New York State every decade puts us at risk.	1617745555	8	3	FALSE	FALSE
112319774	64397379	Deirdre	New Jersey	You can’t stop change. The Republican war against change is now a culture war as the only policies they are for are the ones that let them discriminate against LGBTQ or family planning. Both are their last desperate grasps to maintain some weird 1950’s superiority. The losses began with the election of Reagan. That is when the US stopped investing in itself and started draining the coffers to the wealthy. They distracted us with racism and culture wars and now that they are losing elections they have aired the racism out in the open It won’t work We can all see Hopefully even more come out to vote in 2022.	1617746021	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319254	17869631	Mark	Long Beach	Unfortunately for the idealists among us, people - not just white people - prefer to gather in ethnic groups. Multi-ethnic states have always disintegrated into their component parts, usually in a violent fashion (Yugoslavia) although sometimes peacefully (Czechoslovakia). This brutal fact makes the ‘diversity is strength’ line naively dangerous.	1617743704	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319422	104228734	Gambel’s Quail	Out West	So which is it, fellow Americans? Is diversity an advantage for the country (as I have believed) where all boats rise with the tide? Or is it simply a buzz word, a place holder until whites are a minority and can be disenfranchised (as some pretty awful comments on here seem to suggest)? What whites have experienced hasn’t been “privilege” - it’s what every person of color should have had all along: equal access to jobs, housing and all manner of institutions necessary for the full enjoyment of their lives (e.g., healthcare). To the nation’s shame, that obviously hasn’t been the case, and must be rectified. But as long as we keep labeling what all Americans deserve as “white privilege,” I worry that we are not opting for people of color to get their due, but simply for a huge fight over a shrinking pie.	1617744432	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318496	70144285	Jerry Davenport	New York	Let’s see, the All Star game is pulled from Georgia, major corporations such as Coca Cola, Delta and others demanded it. Let’s also look at the major sponsors for the Masters; Mercedes-Benz, AT&T, and IBM all lost their voice and no peeps out of Biden. What gives?	1617740414	1	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319033	71364381	JPLA	Pasadena	The headline explains why the Commonwealth of Kentucky continues to re-elect two senators who have done zero for the overall good of their constituents.	1617742697	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319587	3483600	Horatio	New York, NY	Political scientist conducts study. Is surprised to find out what everybody else already knew. Trumpites are motivated by racism? Who knew? Economic anxiety? Does that include the real estate broker who flew there on a private jet? Does that include that woman who owned a gym and said she was looking to shoot Nancy Pelosi? Does that include their leader Donnie, the billionaire who has remained rich despite failing at business again and again and again, because that’s the way the system is set up? Seriously - what on EARTH made you think these people were suffering from economic anxiety? Donald Trump OPENLY stokes racial fear, and the only people who don’t see it don’t WANT to see it.	1617745199	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318786	36321004	Litewriter	Long Island	Why was the violence on January 6 so much worse? “The difference at the rallies was former President Donald J. Trump.” Kerosene met its match, so to speak. He, of course, takes no responsibility…as usual.	1617741679	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318392	50740252	Madeleine215	Bronx, NY	How many people, White or Black, suffering from “economic anxiety” would’ve been able, in the middle of a pandemic, to fly either commercially or privately to Washington, DC, take rooms at the better hotels, afford the expensive cosplay some of them sported, and then flood bars and restaurants? Any POC could’ve told the NYT that these were the folks who are afraid of an equal playing field for all US citizens. They supported the former guy because they understood that he understood their fears of losing the privilege that got them where they are. It seems the only people who don’t get this work in media.	1617740006	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318788	16577639	Purple Patriot	Colorado	Racial paranoia among some whites, especially the less educated, is the prime motivator among the new republican base. It became obvious in the wake of Barrack Obama’s election that many took as evidence of the looming displacement of white people from their position of prominence. The GOP establishment understood that and chose to take full advantage of it via Fox News and talk radio, and later the alternate “realities” of the internet. They carefully fed a steady diet of disinformation and grievance to frightened and gullible white voters, arousing their misplaced fear and anger and duping them into voting against their own interests. The GOP elite didn’t expect to lose control of the party as they have, but their effort to prop up a bankrupt Republican party with lies and malice, instead of saving the party, may be what destroys it.	1617741682	290	2	TRUE	FALSE
112319227	101165840	George	Cobourg	The key word in this article is “status” . The author seems to be saying that white people want to retain an elevated “status”, simply by being white. If these white folks were more realistic, they would realize that their “status” comes from their character, not their colour.	1617743589	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319300	18906079	betsy	east village	It’s always good to have something that everybody knows already confirmed by an academic study.	1617743936	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318148	74958830	Hello	You	Can we separate this from the new middle class poverty? What is “middle class” in this article? $30,000 per year, mortgage on a hut, a rusty truck, and 2 jobs serving fries and burgers?	1617739047	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318592	74794218	Armando Cardona	San Juan, Puerto Rico	The plain truth is that the US has always had significant minorities & has never had a completely homogeneous racial, ethnic or cultural composition. America has never been, in absolute terms, a “white man’s country”. What it had for the longest time —centuries as a matter of fact— was a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) upperclass that represented a majority but not nearly the totality of the American people & enjoyed a disproportionate share of political & economic power, to the detriment of all others. Now that 21st century demographics are catching up with racial & ethnic diversity the US should commit itself to finally living up to its theoretically color blind & ethnic neutral constitutional discourse. White Americans, were they wise, wouldn’t pine for a romanticized but unfair past & would embrace a future when this country truly becomes “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty & justice for all” for the first time in its history.	1617740760	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319387	58030595	bud	mckinney	Survived the 1967 Newark riots.The races today are more polarized than in the 1960/70s.Why?Because politicans,media,and both lib and conservative fringe groups keep agitating and pot stirring.It’s time to put a stop to fringe group/riots/demonstrations by simply enforcing the law.Namely,you can protest whenever/wherever.Start a riot,destroying property and the police can use force to stop you.Sadly,our politicans at all levels don’t have the courage to let police do their job.	1617744294	2	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319741	79243447	Ew	New York	The fear of white people “losing out” – is created by PROPAGANDA by right wing groups. There is no “losing out”. Our entire capitalist society is competitive – competing businesses, individuals, ideas. These weak white men who are so afraid probably think that women are replacing them too! “Losing out” to anyone is possible if the winning person is smarter, luckier, better-positioned, better-educated, with better skills and unfortunately also better connections. Get used to it everyone – You are going to have to step up to the plate to not “lose out”. May the best person excel! America is the Hunger Games.	1617745824	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320090	47032511	Jeff Mullen	NYC	If we know who and where these people are, why are they still free to conspire and plan mayhem? Since we know that the former president openly fomented this violence, why is he still playing golf like nothing happened? People died.	1617747731	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320081	18602424	James Igoe	New York, NY	This was already well known, that terrorism is most often a response to military occupation… “Most of the bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations.”	1617747695	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320108	13653380	David A. Ervin	Chicago	Aren’t the conclusions presented by Mr. Pape fully anticipated in Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste? I believe the NYT review recommended that EVERYONE should read this book. Everyone should read this book because it puts events like the attack on the Capitol into an historical and cultural context that could lead to understanding the fears that created the Great Replacement theory. Understanding, with great effort, can lead to healing.	1617747847	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112320122	78227502	hotGumption	Rhode Island	“They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.” I am a liberal Democrat tilting toward moderate and cannot tolerate studies nor reporting that extrapolates conclusions based on superficial supposition. Where are the interviews with people from those communities stating anything that would support the broadbrush painting and certainty of study outcome? Was anyone interviewed or was this above statement pontificating? No one was more sickened than I about the assault on our Democracy. But I demand accountability in studies and reporting. That’s true for any topic.	1617747945	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319667	12878136	Blueboat	New York	These people might not be so irrationally violent if white grievance wasn’t blasted at them 24/7 by Fox and the rest of the right-wing media.	1617745513	10	2	FALSE	FALSE
112320062	27017838	John Locke	Amesbury, MA	“Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds” I’d bet that Native Americans could give them some perspective on this.	1617747611	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318845	96570639	eirsatz	California	I’m wary of the comparison made between Jan 6 and the earlier DC demos referred to. The January attack on the Capitol saw violence directed against police and the state while the earlier demos saw violence directed against random POC passers by and anti fascists. In those instances the police stood by for the most part and let the proud boys and various other white supremacists and fascists have the run of the streets. Doubtful that one can draw much representative info from arrests then given that cops did their best not to arrest any of the criminals involved.	1617741927	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319236	86272406	Zobar	West Coast	When you consider the fact that it’s White people who control and dominate the power structure in this country, the whole claim of “losing out” is totally absurd.	1617743626	187	14	TRUE	FALSE
112319632	66865645	ultimateliberal	new orleans	Racial and cultural anxieties………..what are these people afraid of? Racial bias makes no sense……..we are all humans. How did white people develop such fears of those who have other customs, mores, and color? We should be celebrating diversity because we have so much to learn from one another!	1617745349	123	6	TRUE	FALSE
112318999	57431316	Shawn	California	What is “non-Hispanic white?” Is this just whites policing the boundaries of whiteness? The way it’s applied, which is to subtract from whites those whites of hispanic origin, implies a fine tuning - an effort to describe what is “truly white” - a one drop rule that suggests whiteness can be contaminated by certain languages and certain cultures.	1617742544	6	2	FALSE	FALSE
112318839	48857126	James Allar	NYC	The insurrectionists are looking at all these external factors to blame their misery and their shortcomings on when all they need do is look at themselves in the mirror to see the source of their perceived failures. That and very mistaken belief that any Republican politician cares about them. Fueled by Fox News misinformation. Ugly America is very real, but it’s based on illusions and delusions and lies.	1617741910	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318260	78235501	Robert D	Maplewood	What seems to be missing from these analyses is this: the role religion plays in inspiring these crazy people to do things they would probably never have dreamt they would do. Evangelical religions have fundraised and organized much of this… and to look at this insurrection only in terms of race doesn’t tell the whole story. The truth is… Republicans gained ground in the last election with almost every marginalized group… and lost ground with suburban white voters. This narrative doesn’t match that reality. Culture wars are defining people more and more.. and most people don’t want their identity handed to them by think tanks or social media. The pushback against that is also inspiring these nuts….	1617739495	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319824	61155160	Brian	New Jersey	A revealing study. These self-contained counties, mostly middle & upper class whites, are being fueled by conservative pundits and grifters. The lies grow roots, then spread by words echoed in parks, grocery stores, soccer match sidelines, little league stands, & church parking lots. Imagine a looming shadow of something called The Great Replacement, gripping a hold of your brain, cutting off circulation to your heart. These people are broken through ignorance.	1617746287	2	1	FALSE	FALSE
112320129	57788230	greenbro	Reno, NV	Mr. Pape posits that law enforcement alone will not be able to solve this problem rooted in the politics of social change. I would further theorize that those who stormed the Capitol felt entitled to do so, and believe, justifiably so, that law enforcement on a large scale, sympathizes with their actions. After all, are they not taking action to maintain the status quo?	1617747963	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318743	87254612	J J	Vegas	80% of job loses are due to automation. That is something that media like Fox and Newsmax do not bother to tell their audience. It’s far better for them to play on the fear that their white audience has of foreigners. Many working class whites are fearful of becoming a minority. Hispanics have largely displaced whites in some industries, most notably in residential construction and food service, but what’s driving the majority of job losses is automation. This trend is only going to accelerate in the near future with self driving cars and trucks displacing millions of blue collar jibs. The right wing media will continue to stoke fear instead of educating their audience on the inevitable march of technology and its impact on employment. Technology marches on and there’s nothing any of us can do about it. A.I. is coming for your job.	1617741439	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319759	58671272	Zezee	Bronx	The USA shares a hemisphere—and a history—with Central and South America. In fact the USA was Spanish before it was English. Let’s all work and play together. Spanish music, dance, art, food, language, folkways, philosophy—enrich our lives. I can’t understand why some people can’t see this.	1617745921	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319751	36749978	Angela	Midwest	If Mr. Pape’s initial conclusions — hold true, they would suggest that the Capitol attack has historical echoes reaching back to before the Civil War. Really, the Civil War? That is giving the people that took part on Jan. 6 too much credit. It is more like P.T. Barnum: there is a sucker born every minute. Fox News, the Republicans, and Trump are very cognizant of this axiom and are happy to manipulate these unwitting mopes every minute of every day.	1617745875	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317137	59034020	Daniel Hoffman	Philadelphia	I did not see any real evidence presented to support the conclusions of the article. He didn’t even bother to speak to any of the people who participated in the attack on our Capitol. This article is prejudice pretending to be scientific. It should not have been published.	1617735083	3	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319801	37887004	V	FL	This country has done a heck of a lot of pretending that class doesn’t exist, so (some) people align based on race instead. How many of these Trumpers are also anti-union, unless it’s a police union their brother’s in?	1617746169	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319809	5161936	JimBob	Los Angeles	“…places…that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people.” No. It is irrational to fear that your rights, guaranteed by the Constitution, are being crowded out. What’s being crowded out is the automatic privilege heretofore conferred on white people, the automatic assumption that their superiority to people of color gave them the upper hand in all interactions, confrontations and economic arrangements. No wonder they’re afraid.	1617746192	2	2	FALSE	FALSE
112319814	77342798	Val	Toronto	Universal basic income, workers controlling the means of production, and working class solidarity would prevent much of the bitterness seen in poor white communities. Some people would still be fascists of course, but I would be willing to bet that improved working conditions and quality of life would help. Looking at these issues through the lens of class makes sense.	1617746254	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319613	66719145	jules	California	Headline states “Fears of White People Losing Out…..” Losing out WHAT, exactly? Don’t Magas believe in boot-strapping? Don’t Magas absolutely hate when people get “free stuff?” Don’t Magas scoff if people of color complain about barriers to entry? It’s not an immigrant’s fault if he takes work you won’t do. It’s not an immigrant’s fault if lawmakers won’t make e-verify the law of the land, or punish employers for hiring the undocumented.	1617745286	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319813	79671882	Bob	Tucson, AZ	The viewpoint that minorities “threaten” the non-Hispanic white population is a classic rascist view. Only someone who thinks in terms of segregating society by skin color would feel threatened by people of a different skin color. Instead of seeing shared values and goals, they cannot see past physical appearances. Unfortuneately our federal government helps to perpetuate classification of people into “races” based on skin color. Our approach dates to the 1960s. Advances in science has left the concept of “races” behind, but socially the concept of “race” based on skin color is as strong as ever.	1617746250	0	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319823	60562074	Charlie	Midwest	I think the author is correct that a perceived need for self defense of ones status played a big part in the motivation of the capital building mob. The BLM riots and the passive response to them by the government also is a factor as they are seen as a crises which must be fixed by strong patriots. The fact that so many of the BLM protestors are seen as weak, man-bunned and emasculated plays right into this strong patriot attitude.	1617746283	0	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319463	66342952	ElleJ	Ct.	Can someone articulate what these people are so afraid of? Other than always wanting to be heard, what is their problem? Maybe if they had gotten an education, would stop blaming everyone and everything for their loser lives and avoid nut conspiracy groups like QAnon, they wouldn’t always be in such a panic about skin tone.	1617744618	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318618	81086255	mj	somewhere in the middle	This isn’t about white people. This is about white men. Their sense of entitlement is going to destroy us all. I’ve met plenty of these men and what they all have in common is that they are not getting what they imagine they deserve. That is the outcry of their stupid leader. The man born with a fortune who lost it and is ridiculed and derided for his utter lack of humanity. The bully. The fool. The clown. It’s the GOP who has channeled it into anger at minorities… and women. Which is very rarely mentioned. The few women you see at these temper tantrums with guns are always angry for their man. Times have moved on. I’m sure the dinosaurs fought against their demise too.	1617740863	16	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319097	49378451	sarah	NYC	When I read the phrase “Fears of white people losing out,” my brain automatically – and immediately – translates it to “Racism.” Racism permeates the Capitol rioters’ towns.	1617742992	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318625	67633122	Earthling	Earth	Another common factor among the insurrectionists is narcissism. Look at all the showing off – on Parler, Facebook, Twitter and in person. The bullying and aggression, including explosive rage among the most violent. The loud-mouthed pride in what they were doing. The “special snowflake” entitlement, shown in part by the shock and whining (cockroaches in jail! no organic food!) when they realize their unique wonderfulness won’t save them from facing consequences for their actions. The obsessive focus on themselves to the exclusion of all others, including their own children. The inflated sense of self-importance. The “look at me!” bids for attention. The costumes, military cosplay, personal brands and nicknamed personas on display. (Q-Shaman anyone? “Baked Alaska” livestream? Bugzie the Don & Stephen Ignoramus?) The lack of empathy or ability to entertain other points of view. The lack of any sense of humor. Many of them were so invested in expressing their personal identities that they wore work logos, state-flag badges, local-chapter militia patches and other identifiers while committing crimes, making it easy for the FBI to later identify them. But their narcissism is no surprise when their starting point was their devotion to the former Narcissist-in-Chief. [fixing typo]	1617740911	12	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318997	45938234	Mallory	San Antonio	I am so tired of white Americans whining about their losses as African Americans have to deal with police brutality and the loss of their voting rights, and Asian Americans have become punching bags to the point of being murdered or seriously injured. Get over it. The country has had ethnic diversity for going on two centuries and everyone deserves the same opportunities. It sickened me to see the capitol building and its occupants attacked by bitter white Americans who have made up grievances.	1617742533	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318138	46850779	L	NYC	Seems remarkably easy to understand: These white people want to be “the masters” and they believe that everyone of another color skin should always be their “underlings.” That’s how they see it, and they want their leaders to make it BE that way.	1617738998	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318391	70144285	Jerry Davenport	New York	“Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds” Ok, let’s accept the premise. Wonder under what pretense the burning, looting, rioting occurred in 2020. If Whites are accused of Jan 6, who were the rioters in 2020 and towards what end.	1617739994	2	1	FALSE	FALSE
112319363	55635161	David	NYC	Let’s be clear. It’s called racism.	1617744194	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319510	12227762	Mary Jane	Give Us Back Our northeast Tax Dollars	I don’t underhand all this delicate handling. Just lock them up	1617744828	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318674	78254499	Srocket	SoFla	So what’s next? Domestic suicide bombers? Probably not I surmise. The Insurrectionists are cowards.	1617741116	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318102	76628886	Toby Shandy	Shandy Hall	In other words, January 6 was a race riot. Maybe rural whites should look to the Asian community for tips on how to be a model minority.	1617738836	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319432	21044881	Suzanne	California	Why does MSM keep “explaining” racist hateful people to us over and over again?	1617744486	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319575	64668333	mike	San Francisco	Huh.? So this article is based on the conclusions of ONE researcher.?? Seems a bit thin, doesn’t it? – In any case, the Jan 6th rioters weren’t attacking immigrants.. they were attacking members of Congress, and they were stirred on by false claims of a stolen election… — And what’s really missing here is some input by the rioters themselves. why not just go ask them why they did it..? Wouldn’t that make more sense than the strained conclusions & supposed historical parallels given here.. lol. —- What kinda Kool-aid is the NYT drinking these days.??–	1617745143	4	2	FALSE	FALSE
112318206	76263903	Livonian	Los Angeles	We live in a time where the Good Guys talk about how “whiteness is problematic,” the white “race” is responsible for every ill in the world, Robin DiAngelo explains that white children are born racist, and gleefully predict the demographic decline of white people in America. Black students demand all black dormitories and graduation ceremonies. A respected black author at the Root writes an essay, “Whiteness is a pandemic,” virtually calling for the white genocide. We only become alarmed at anti-Asian violence when a white person perpetrates it. Simply put, the Good Guys, the racial progressives and the “anti-racism” activists indulge in the most openly racist anti-white rhetoric imaginable. We are soaking in the racism of “anti-racism.” And now we are shocked - shocked! - to find that many white people are once again explicitly identifying by and organizing around their whiteness. It seems that the left, the progressives, liberals, the self proclaimed “Good Guys,” the alleged inheritors of MLK, Jr.’s vision, are intent on sowing the seeds of the race war which marginalized right wing extremists have been hell-bent on bringing about for generations.	1617739277	6	2	FALSE	FALSE
112319187	79389660	Joule1	Ohio	E Pluribus Unum.	1617743433	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112319703	70743135	Gabriella	Seattle	What a fancy way of saying they’re white supremacists!	1617745649	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317970	67934281	RX	Bay Area	This is not going to be a popular opinion. I grew up in a rural small city that was about 90% White in the 1970s (maybe 75% White now). I have lived my entire adult life in diverse urban places on the West Coast, the majority of that time in the heart of Silicon Valley. The United States imports a lot of highly educated labor - doctors, nurses, engineers, computer scientists, graduate students/professors - from all over the world. At the same time, White rural schools, cities, and towns are drastically underfunded and neglected by decent economic policy, in a way that was not true a generation ago. I think the neo-Republican/Reaganomics attitude is, why build healthy communities and prepare more Americans for good competitive jobs when many other countries will pay for all of that education (preschool through graduate school), and we can reap the benefits by offering visas. At this point, only the most affluent and educated Americans are in a position to prepare their kids to compete. If your family missed the boat in the last 40 years, it’s gone. This is just one lens. I’m not saying that blatant racism doesn’t also exist.	1617738343	46	5	FALSE	FALSE
112318502	81613078	Lawrence Norbert	USA	People born with curiosity and openness as part of their personality are more likely to leave their small rural towns and get an education and move to a city or a college town. Those with more conservative natures are less likely to seek change and stay where they are. So those areas not only have very white populations, they are likely to have lower education levels because those seeking greater education and knowledge about the world are more likely to leave, draining rural areas of the diversity of thought and ideas that might once have existed there.	1617740455	20	3	FALSE	FALSE
112317946	56213992	BurnedToast	South Carolina	Best solution: Treat everyone like a fellow human being. Convincing everyone to do that is a problem but asking the question “Why not treat everyone like a human being?” is a new idea to some folks and they will ponder. It helps them to get off the track of Us and Them.	1617738256	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317802	65845055	hdtvpete	Newark Aiport	Deep down, we are still a tribe-based society, no matter how much education, wealth, political intelligence, or stature we’ve acquired in life or how much our consciousness has been raised. On a primitive level, members of tribes tend to look at other tribes with caution or perceive them as threats, particularly when members of other tribes begin to show up in greater numbers in “our” territory. We respond by erecting barriers to keep “others” out. Again; on a primitive level, physical barriers. On a more advanced level, we erect financial, legal, and political barriers. But all types of barriers serve the same purpose. And when those barriers are removed, often by government action, we respond in different ways - moving out of neighborhoods, moving our kids into private schools, only joining clubs with “exclusive” membership, etc. We point fingers at “others” and use them as scapegoats to avoid reality (i.e. “others” are taking our jobs when in reality companies are down-sizing, offshoring, automating, looking for higher-skilled labor, etc.) And apparently, when we feel most threatened, we reject logic and reason and resort to violence…just like primitive tribes do…	1617737743	12	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317855	76363334	John Donovan	Eugene, OR	I’ll say it again: when one is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.	1617737938	28	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318414	48903816	David	Maine	I have nothing more reliable to go on, but my gut tells me a lot of these people did not expect to get caught and/or punished. Law enforcement is not the answer to deep-seated social alienation, but it does get the attention of those who assume they can just act out without any consequences. Appropriate penalties seems like a good place to start, and we can see if a fair number of these scofflaws don’t sober up. It won’t be the only answer but it should be first on the list.	1617740055	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318447	43528999	AC	Jersey City	It doesn’t surprise me that a group of people so deeply invested in a culture of violence, persecution and fear of the other are willing to resort to any means to maintain power. In their minds a world in which they are no longer afforded the benefit of the doubt due to their skin color must be unpalatable. They may be vulnerable to substandard schools, poor housing, unequal justice systems and financial prejudice. How would they survive in such a dystopian existence and what impact will it have on their families and their future? If only they could see what that America looks like then even consider making an even better society where people don’t have to experience those conditions. Or maybe this group of people are more in touch with what the majority of their fellow citizens really truly think and want to ensure that the conditions never exist where they will have to truly face the results. Can anyone clarify?	1617740176	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318463	23354677	Robert Broadhead	Tucson, Sz	This is a fabulous analysis, worthy of the Pulitzer Prize. It draws off of especially important work on international terrorism, offering truly original thinking on domestic terrorism that is fostered by powerful but poorly understood sociological forces.	1617740267	7	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317784	70681574	Jean	NJ	I noticed for the last few years that the Trumpers were not poor left-behind rural whites as we were led to believe. They have pricey pickup trucks, expensive guns, boats, lake houses and the ability to take time off to travel to rallies and insurrections. They are people with privilege and money and they don’t want to share “their country” with anyone.	1617737673	25	2	FALSE	FALSE
112318281	165864	Mark Kessinger	New York, NY	A certain level of anxiety over cultural, ethnic and racial differences is natural, and is likely hardwired into us as a species. But at a certain point, a person makes a decision about whether to focus on those differences or to focus instead on our common, shared humanity. People are slaves to their ethnic/cultural/racial anxieties only to the extent they choose to be.	1617739596	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318345	81680622	Greg	Texas	Two dynamics in our country were the secret of Trump’s success, at least among the non-millionaires and billionaires: disappearance of jobs and the simple fact that whites will fairly soon no longer constitute a majority in this country. Trump and his ilk fostered the belief that the first of these dynamics was caused by the second - hence, the continuous air of racism that hung around his rallies and everywhere he or his followers hung out or spoke. These twin dynamics can still be exploited and will be (e.g., all the voter suppression we are seeing now). Funny, though, that immigrants get blamed for the effects, but not the wealthy who profit from the changes. And instead of solving the problem, we use exotic conspiracy theories to try to assess blame and vent our rage. This is not the first time this has all happened. The Dreyfus Affair in France was very similar.	1617739812	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317912	67633122	Earthling	Earth	I’ve been tracking the arrested from the beginning on a spreadsheet, and the “Counties with Great Replacement Fears” pattern doesn’t jibe with what I’ve been seeing. The common thread I’ve seen is people whose income and/or employment have taken a big hit from Covid restrictions – particularly small business owners – resulting in a combination of personal financial stress and “idle hands.” It would help if The Times had included a table or graph identifying the specific counties that Mr. Pape had determined were both disproportionate insurrection feeders and, according to his analysis, awash with Great Replacement anxiety. I’ve been tracking by town and state rather than county, but the states that are over-represented among the rioters are simply “Trump country” with big populations: Pennsylvania (48 arrested), Florida (42) and Texas (37). As for towns, the insurrectionists came from all over the place, without a lot of repetition. A disproportionate number of insurrectionists come from Beverly Hills. Is the setting of “Beverly Hills 90210” a place known for its fear of racial replacement?	1617738122	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318848	62056303	Peggy C	Vero Beach, Fl	When I went into a local Verizon store the gentleman who helped me had a Spanish accent. As I tried to decide what phone to buy I asked him where he was from. He said Venezuela, that he asked for asylum back in 2011 and he still hasn’t had a court date. I told him he was lucky he came in 2011. He told me he has had many jobs and was able to buy a house. He told me how happy he was to be in this country and he obviously has worked very hard since he’s been here. I wished him luck and told him that we can always use hard workers in this country. He left 2 messages for me just making sure that all was going well with my new phone. I sent him a text to tell him I loved my new IPhone and again wished him luck. Maybe many of these American made terrorists are not only racists but don’t want to be upstaged by immigrants that work harder than they want to work.	1617741936	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318663	154732688	Pam	Skan	The intersection of replacement fear and “honor culture” as described by Rice University social psychologist Ryan P. Brown (“Honor Bound,” Oxford University Press 2016) would make for a fascinating study. To what extent does the violent code of an honor culture exacerbate, or perhaps underpin, the aggression of current and historical mob movements targeting “infringement” by newcomers?	1617741066	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318866	66771657	Ted	NY	“The medium is the message”. Let’s start by regulating social media and reinstate the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine: “introduced in 1949, (it) was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable, and balanced.” Facebook’s Zuckerberg is a criminal. Let’s ditch the 40 year destructive deregulatory economic policy, a Milton Friedman gift. Let’s reform immigration once and for all. Seasonal immigration must be legalize with permits that allow laborers to go back to country of origin after the season’s over. Invest in Central America to contain migration. It can be done. Let’s not permit overstay visas, particularly from Asia to continue. Bring back to the country any form of manufacturing that makes sense, financially and practically. And, above all, let’s not allow academics and think tanks with special interests to keep spewing studies of minority majorities. Quite explicitly these studies imply a descent to destruction.	1617742028	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318476	57609768	C. M. Jones	Tempe, AZ	Martin Scorcese’s 2002 gem, Gangs of New York, is pretty enlightening here. Nativism is as old as civilization itself. However, a confidence mainlining nativist fears through social media in order to pad his pockets is something new. Thanks, Jack Dorsey, you’re such a great guy.	1617740311	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318503	70912308	Deborah	Portland	Last night I finished reading The Sum of Us by Heather McGee. This Times article reflects exactly what she is talking about in her book - the belief in a “zero sum” situation or, if minorities gain, whites must lose. This mindset has been promoted throughout our history by those in power to sow distrust about people of color; it helps ensure that the country doesn’t change and those in power stay in power. Her book explains how this hurts ALL of us and doesn’t have to be our future. I highly recommend it.	1617740455	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318672	96250944	DZ	Humboldt County, CA	I don’t understand why only 400 will be charged if 800-1000 entered the building. Isn’t everyone who entered at least guilty of criminal trespass? Whence this discrepancy?	1617741103	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317961	59657469	x	y	I would love to see the statistical data. The only thing that surprises me is that it is middle and upper middle class white people who feel threatened. I would have expected it to be working class and middle class white people.	1617738312	1	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318211	71038989	C. Schwinbarger	California	Demographics as nation destroyer? It’s certainly happened before. Infact it’s one of the main reasons big countries fall apart. Destabilizing nations.	1617739282	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318570	54847100	psyched123	Colorado	These findings already well understood by those politicians who chose to go to the border to film “reality TV” footage of the “hordes” of immigrants swimming across the border. Just to firm up the new base voters.	1617740663	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317995	51308556	SF Reader	San Francisco	An interesting report, this, but not entirely surprising when you consider it in the context of the anti-immigrant rhetoric in Trump’s campaign announcement (i.e. gold escalator) and that permeated his speeches, at the White House, rallies and elsewhere. Trump and his enablers knew from the very get-go who they were talking to, stirring up, and ultimately, inciting to violence.	1617738463	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318065	54868925	Steve	Nirvana	When the Trump supporter was first profiled in 2015, I realized that they were talking about nearly all the kids I went to school with decades earlier. Most were too lazy to apply themselves in any meaningful way to get a real education. They were certain that this didn’t matter. They were correct for a few years but eventually being unskilled without the educational attainment to do anything about it, became a severe liability. Instead of learning from this, they passed these beliefs down to their children and grand children. They now scapegoat those who worked to get ahead and threaten them with violence.	1617738710	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318174	79425647	Eugene McElroy	Highland Park, NJ	One comparison with the insurrectionists of Jan. 6 that I haven’t seen made yet is with the pied noirs in pre-independence Algeria. Nothing was beyond this cross-class alliance of mostly French descendant people defending their colonial privileges: civil war, torture, the OAS “Secret Army” death squads, multiple attempts on the life of Charles de Gaulle, military mutiny and attempting to overthrow the Third Republic. We’re still a long way from Algeria 1955-1962, but January 6th gave us a glimpse of what is just below the surface.	1617739146	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318461	80246243	American Striving For A More Perfect Union	USA	“Irish Need Not Apply.” Same sentiment, different nationality. Americans have, historically, looked down upon the most recent arrivals. Humans fear change and fear a loss of power. How do we deal with this in the wake a Trump presidency? Oddly, the roots of a solution are embedded in the Scriptures so many Trump supporters claim to follow. Love your neighbor. Who is your neighbor? Everyone…	1617740244	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318407	70710031	Walter Rhett	Summerville, SC	So a scholar whose original assumptions were very badly off still cannot see the bigger context and fundamental content of racism and white supremacy. Once again, systemic racism is a “surprise” and denied. Some of us are not at “the beginning.”	1617740033	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318561	56193810	Rose	America	The Civil War never really ended, just went partially underground .	1617740628	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318799	59722714	Cynical	Knoxville, TN	Many European Whites now identify as ‘Hispanic’ for the obvious benefits. Also, White women have been the overwhelming beneficiaries of ‘equal opportunity’ initiatives. The effect is that White people continue to benefit disproportionately from the system. This ‘fear of losing out’ is simply adding insult to injury.	1617741721	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318809	22787593	BB	Hawai’i, NYC, Mtl	What would cure the fear of losing out is earning a right to exist with honest hard work, behavior and respect for those that are doing likewise. Everyone has equal right to life, not the right to impose individual rights & fears upon another.	1617741767	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317826	68503714	Tim	Washington	Well of course. This was 90% of Trump’s appeal. He stoked their anger and fear.	1617737823	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318282	60790181	William Case	United States	The Census Bureau projects that whites, who made up 97.5 percent of the U.S. population in 2014, will make up 76.3 percent of the U.S. population in 2060, if current immigration trends continue. It projects that non-Hispanic whites will decrease from 77.5 percent of the population in 2014 to 68.5 percent in 2060. The other 31.5 percent of the white population would be whites who immigrated to America from Spanish-speaking countries or Hispanic whites who have an ancestor who immigrated from a Spanish-speaking country. However, it is unlikely that a distinction between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic whites will be made in 2060. Intermarriage between Non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic whites is becoming as much the rule as the exception, especially in our most populous states—California and Texas. Source: Table 2 (Population by Race and Hispanic Origin), Projections of the Size and Composition of the U..S: 2014 to 2060, page 9. <a href=“https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf” target="_blank">https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf</a>;	1617739598	0	2	FALSE	FALSE
112318567	61480355	Lauren	San Antonio, Texas	This white person welcomes a majority consisting of largely bi-lingual people, such as our Hispanic and Asian citizens. And those who have survived, generation after generation, in a country who enslaved their great- or great-great-grandparents. Many African-Americans have thrived despite the ongoing hate and suppression from the white majority. Let’s hope our governments will be fully represented by peoples who have survived domination and discrimination for many generations. Being ruled and living in a white culture that has won, often by brutal and violent domination, can only be improved by multiple world views and experiences.	1617740650	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317974	80240507	Russell	Irvine, CA	People is rural communities have been hurt in recent decades. They get angry when papers like the NYT tell them they’re privileged despite their despair. I would like to see more journalism about these communities and what we can do as a nation to help them.	1617738376	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318251	82916024	Fread	Ohio	I don’t care about their reasons. I care about their crime. We shouldn’t have to spend our time trying to excuse their criminality by finding “why.” What concerns us is their crime. We all have challenges, we don’t go around hurting other people or being criminals because of our personal problems!! I didn’t even bother reading all of this. It’s interesting, but it’s of no concern to me and shouldn’t!	1617739462	8	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318377	30653991	liceu93	Bethesda	Sad. Sad because in their ignorance, they think that giving all Americans access to “the American Dream” means that they’ll lose their privileges. They fail to realize that if we improve the lot of all people in our country we all benefit. Also sad that their are those so twisted. that they exploit these people’s fears.	1617739947	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318487	4661200	Scott Fordin	NH USA	Widening wealth and opportunity gaps between the “haves” and “have-nots” provide the dirt in which hatred, racism, religious schism, and tribalism run rampant. Comity without social or legal justice is impossible, and the demagogues among us are all too willing to create scapegoats and to set citizens at each other’s throats as a means to retain power.	1617740365	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318601	68486821	GG	New York	I’ve said this from the beginning: The Trump presidency was all about white fear of becoming a majority-minority by 2030 or so. Not all whites fear this. But there are working-class whites who think that if some other group succeeds, they are diminished. To them it’s a zero-sum game, and that is what Trump played with them. – thegamesmenplay.com	1617740793	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317077	12064282	vbering	Pullman WA	Ethno-nationalism is a tremendously powerful and disruptive force. At bottom, many people want to live among and be ruled by their own tribe and not some other tribe. One American myth is that diversity is strength. How often have you heard that? Let’s look at some strong homogeneous societies: Napoleonic France was all white. Britain in the 19th century was all white. Wilhelmine Germany was all white. The US was a non-diverse great power 100 years ago. Japan in the early 20th century. China, today’s rising great power, has a homogeneous power structure. Let’s look at some diverse societies: The Austro-Hungarian empire was torn apart by ethno-nationalism. It was the proximate cause of World War I. India is hyper-diverse. It is chaotic and econimically and militarily weak for its population size. The former Yugoslavia. Rwanda. Nigeria, with Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. Israel/Palestine. People understand the downsides of diversity even if elites refuse to acknowledge them. People can feel these downsides in their bones. The US was, over time, able to integrate Catholics, Jews, Germans, Irish, and Italians pretty well. We were less successful with Native Americans and blacks. I hope we in the US can integrate our Hispanic and Asians immigrants in such a way as to avoid massive civil disorder. As to whether we can do that, your guess is as good as mine. A lot will depend on the economy in the years ahead.	1617734879	23	15	FALSE	FALSE
112315548	58135798	Mack	New England	Here’s the crazy comment for the day. or, maybe file this in the “too early to discuss” folder. Asking one group of people to play by one set of rules and everyone else to play by another is different from historic racism, how? Maybe someone needs to actually LISTEN to white people and their concerns instead of just maligning them as racists and evil-doers solely responsible for all that’s wrong with the world. Since we are expected to acknowledge the suffering and accomplishments of others by race, why are white people the exception to this rule? Why is it OK for the media and political leaders (and racial and religious leaders) to generalize about “white” people when generalizing about any other racial group is generally not OK? Has anyone asked how the experience of white Jews, Gays, or recent immigrants is different for “white” generally? Has anyone asked “white” people from historically predominately “white” parts of the US what it was like to be a different ethnicity or religion than the majority? These nuances matter and they don’t distract from the important conversations and actions needed to resolve generations of racial, sexuality, sexual, or other inequality. Relatively speaking, America is doing a decent job of addressing the reality of living in a messy melting pot but it needs for everyone to participate. Everyone needs to think, listen, and learn. Everyone has to empathize. Everyone needs to understand the context and acknowledge experiences.	1617729904	211	71	FALSE	FALSE
112317422	87958252	Andy	Cincinnati	It seems like a lot of the white people who tried to incite an insurrection had a nice home, a job, and took some PTO so they could drive to DC in their $50,000 pickup and overthrow the government then expected to go back and resume a normal life. There is a pervasive trait among this group to view everything as a zero sum game, where in order for someone else to succeed they must lose something in return.	1617736264	36	2	FALSE	FALSE
112317175	51415176	Steven McCain	New York	People need someone or something to blame for their problems so why not people who have nothing to lose. Ironic the people with the less are blamed for taking from the group that has the most. White People sit at the head of the table in America and them losing their place is not the fault of people of color. Put the blame on the people who they vote for. People seldom vote for their best interest people vote their prejudice. Blame Right to work states and companies who send jobs overseas to improve their bottom line. Leaders have made White People think all of their problem come from people of a darker complexion.	1617735231	18	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317173	56111121	CHUFFED	SoCal	Scared of losing their status?!?! They need to understand that their status is already in the gutter.	1617735226	7	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317045	75716722	ARETE’	TEJAS	White supremacy is our nation’s biggest issue relative the creation of reactionary groups in the US. We need laws that punish home grown terrorism immediately. Diversification of our population is a growing threat to the white power groups. The diversification of America is ongoing and is not about to stop.	1617734749	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317234	80551134	Jim	Philadelphia	Forget this study. Just watch the new six part documentary about about Q on HBO and you’ll know exactly why and who stormed the Capitol.	1617735454	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317362	63783609	Informer	CA	“Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists.” This finding doesn’t surprise me. Now to the juicy part - increases in which non-Hispanic white populations in a geographic area most increase attendance to Trump rallies? I have no idea, because the paper isn’t published yet. I believe the editors erred when they decided to publish to publish this article on the basis of a Washington Post op-ed when the study isn’t available for general consumption yet (has it been peer reviewed? We readers have no idea). I love the NYT because it does its own investigative journalism and publishes articles with external links so readers can easily continue researching a topic if they so choose. This article falls short of that mark.	1617736012	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318079	60079208	Robert	Chicago	Imagine the feeling of feeling minorities and immigrants have TOO many rights in the USA. Now that’s privilege.	1617738748	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317905	40921964	Brett B	Phoenix, AZ	And what this study also confirms is what many of us suspected deep down: that many of those who supported Donald Trump including many of our friends and neighbors did so because they are racists. This has been the ugliest revelation of all over the past four years.	1617738094	33	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317930	46876704	Practicalities	Brooklyn	It’s a zero sum game with these people.	1617738190	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316311	62776537	Bill	Bordentown NJ	OK, honestly? My reaction to this article is exasperation! The faulty assumption that these folks are driven by “economic anxiety” was disproven quite some time ago. Look–I know that there is, and will be, an effort to always look first at the “pain and suffering” of criminals, when those criminals happen to be middle or upper class white folks. It happens every time. “What pain drove them to it?”, is what gets asked of white rioters and murderers. It’s Pavlovian. The author could have saved a lot of time by just re-listening to everything the MAGA have said, out loud, in public, for years now. Or the author could have considered, for example, why aren’t Canadian or Swedish or Irish illegals treated with the same scorn and fear as those who cross the Mexican border illegally? And on, and on, and on, and on. A segment of America still wants desperately to pretend that bigotry ain’t a problem here. “No sir, not in America. We’re past all that. That Martin Luther King fella ended all that.” Anyway, that’s what reading this made me feel. There were no revelations here.	1617732206	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317250	87278479	left coast finch	L.A.	Once again, refusing to look at what the rest of us saw on live TV: multiple signs saying “God, Guns, Trump”; “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President”; “Jesus Saves”; and the giant Christian flag paraded in the Senate chamber. There were spontaneous preaching and prayer gatherings on the way to the Capitol, on the steps of the Capitol, and in the chambers of the Capitol that day and the researcher didn’t even notice? The “Islamic” terrorists may have been secular but the Capitol terrorists are emphatically white evangelical Christian and their fear is the increasing secularization of the nation, more than racial anxieties. After all, a black or brown person can be converted to Christianity, which is what’s been driving evangelical Christianity’s mission for the last century, but an avowed atheist or decidedly indifferent agnostic can not. The nation has never before been fully secular and evangelicals, with the religious fervor of terrorists, are freaking out. We are in uncharted territory, the bridge between archaic superstitions dominating society and science-based secular humanism rising in their place. These people “need” to see the primacy of their religion dominating others with laws restricting sexuality, education, and more being the majority output of the GOP for the last decade. They are losing cultural battle after battle and incensed that the rest of us couldn’t care less about their obsessions. And the researcher missed all of that?	1617735522	11	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317564	67051012	Angelica	Pennsylvania	In summary: misogyny and racism are alive and thriving.	1617736817	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317613	39291845	Sherry	Washington	These people are the spiritual descendants of the Confederacy who view people of different skin tones and less than adequately human.	1617737028	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317476	88660528	R Goodman	Mexico	Because heaven forbid anyone other than a white christian male achieve a modicum of success in their lives. There is just so much wrong with a country that never seems to learn from its past.	1617736508	13	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317495	76293719	Rene	Santa Clara	Quite a few well considered opinions here. I would add that many cities with high racial diversity did not send rioters to the capital. I would like to see a little more research into who these people really are. Yes, they are racist, obviously. But there is more to the story than a recent uptick in numbers of neighbors of color.	1617736579	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316858	70455523	john keeley	beavercreek oregon	We (whites) are afraid the immigrants are going to treat us the way we treated them when they came here. Welcome to the history of the human race.	1617734051	9	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317035	67725170	Opinioned!	NYC	The year that the white people becomes the minority in the USA It will be very beautiful to behold — for finally, the USA will be truly great and exceptional as a country. It’s a pity Rush Limbaugh checked out early and will miss this historic moment.	1617734725	10	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316974	69081512	Donna	Vancouver	The initial hypothesis that the rioters were “ driven to violence” by the effects of the 2008 pandemic is astonishingly biased. It implies that the effects of the recession left them no other choice. So let’s extend that reasoning to black and brown people who have lived far longer under far more extreme economic hardship. They would be “driven to violence” on a proportionately larger scale, wouldn’t they? Or is that an excuse that only white people get to use? Here’s another hypothesis: racist and xenophobic beliefs drive white people to violence. I think we can find some evidence for that in the historical record.	1617734488	15	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316889	66982649	DC	Philadelphia	And every time an outlet like the NYT, like the Washington Post, like pretty much every media outlet puts out a story where every race or subset of a race (as in Hispanic) gets capitalized and any reference to whites is not you just drive a bigger wedge between those who are part of the white race and the rest of the country. Every time the blame for anything is placed automatically as it has been for the past year on whites, every time an attack occurs on a non-white it is now quickly reported as being by a white and then proves to be wrong the wedge gets driven deeper. Everyone now wants to blame whites for every single thing wrong with the country. Does anyone really believe that is actually helpful? Note that I deliberately chose to not capitalize “whites” as to not to incur the written wrath of everyone who thinks they have either woke up or are still looking for excuses for failures regardless as to the real reason it has happened.	1617734171	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318159	65165434	Will	Lakewood	How utterly sad. Instead of doubling down with resolve to better themselves through training and hard work, they resort to a violent, resentful sulk. Cowards when alone, puffed up bravado when in a mob. So much for the conservatives’ veneer of personal accountability. Can only hope this isn’t the new American way.	1617739074	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317380	33069211	Rick	StL	“According to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report in 2011, the U.S. spent more than $300 million on the Sunni Awakening, paying Sunni leaders for their loyalty” <a href=“https://www.npr.org/2015/06/14/414334390/will-the-u-s-win-a-second-chance-at-a-sunni-awakening” target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2015/06/14/414334390/will-the-u-s-win-a-second-chance-at-a-sunni-awakening</a>;	1617736103	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316898	81943333	Ian Maitland	Minneapolis	In the 2016 election, as Columbia’s Mark Lilla wrote in this newspaper, at every campaign stop Hillary Clinton called out to “African-American, Latino, L.G.B.T. and women voters.” NEVER the white working class. Elites sneer at “deplorables” who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Is it any wonder if there is a backlash? And, if so, whose fault is it? The children of the white working class don’t qualify for a “plus factor” when they apply for admission to our best colleges. They are the wrong color. They don’t get to jump to the head of the line when it comes to getting government contracts. That is reserved for businesses with owners who are at least 25% Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic, or Native American. (Last time I looked, Asian-Indians had the highest average incomes in the US). The NYT doesn’t devote acres and acres of column inches to chronicling the “disparities” between the fortunes of the white working class and other Americans in health care, access to college, and so on and on. Why does no one dare call this racism? To add insult to injury, the woke white middle class shames the deplorables as …, you got it, “racists.” It reminds me of that sign on a cage at a French zoo: “This animal is very wicked. If it is attacked, it defends itself.” Good advice is: Don’t lecture America about racism, until you give up supporting policies that treat Americans differently on the basis of their skin color.	1617734204	9	4	FALSE	FALSE
112317514	65363201	Woody	Newborn Ga	Oh. I just thought they were mean.	1617736623	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317887	71106007	Candlewick	Ubiquitous Drive	Why are researchers and media folks chronically obsessed over trying to understand why people like the ones discussed- are forever fretting and “fearful” about people who have zero interest in them? How many studies does it take to reveal stupidity, bigotry, bias, racism adnauseam ?	1617738036	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316600	71578093	Purity of	Essence	Lower class whites are no more racist than the lower classes of any other race, and yet rich white liberals repeatedly fall over themselves to help the non-white lower classes whilst at the same time disparaging and refusing to lift a finger for lower-class whites. Whenever someone mentions that maybe we should include lower class whites the rich white liberals scoff at the notion, and say that those lower class whites deserve their fate because they are “racist” or “sexist” or “homophobic” or should have gone to college. But they are, as a group, no less saintly or academically-inclined than the rest of the lower classes. Funny how these rich white liberals never say that lower class blacks are deserving of their fate. Why the double standard? For a supposedly so highly educated group they seem to be completely obtuse to their own hypocrisy. What we really see whenever lower-class whites and their struggles are brought up is the ugly, sneering, classism of the rich white liberals. Oh how wish they would leave the Democratic Party. Then it could go back to being the party of the common man and woman - all common women and men, whites included. I’m sick of voting for a hypocritical, classist, bourgeois party, which is what it has become.	1617733183	8	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318217	72796461	Leslie	California	Really, one needed to conduct a study to ascertain this? I have known this for years, ever since the data emerged indicating a white minority by 2042. I must be a genius… how did the elite miss this one?	1617739317	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316912	75926248	Rita	Philadelphia	Oh boo hoo. I was raised poor, female, and white in inner city Philadelphia. And ya know, I learned quickly that women are lesser beings. And, being white, where I came from, was not really a big advantage. But even as a poor young woman I understood the value of education, and got some. I borrowed money, yep. I invested in myself. I raised my family, I worked part time jobs while in college. I ignored all that society said about the “role” of women. So, as a dumb poor kid I could see that the future was not gonna be given to me. Therefore, I take offense at a bunch of middle class white men using violence to assure theirs.	1617734284	25	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318163	72927427	ray	mullen	I’ve live in CA my whole life (52 years). I have yet to meet a white person who lost out on a hard labor job in the fields (or the kitchen) to a non-white person. Why? Because those are jobs ARE labor so white folks aren’t clamoring to even apply for them. Thenjobs have long hours, low pay, and hard conditions. So, I would be interested to know just what desired jobs folks from Central America are taking from the Capitol rioters.	1617739087	13	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317054	40142093	Neil	Brooklyn	Pape, the scientist, really thought the insurrection was the result of a recession 13 years ago? This is what they mean by “fake news”	1617734776	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316564	91218859	Wayne	California	If people think they are losing out to minorities, then what are they losing? Jobs? Opportunities? If so, why isn’t it just as bad to lose out on a job or opportunity to a white person? That’s what minority groups face, and it’s also what most white people face. White people are more likely to lose out to another white person. Jews will not replace us? Nobody is giving preference to Jews or Asians or any minority group. People are competing against those who are equally qualified even with affirmative action. If you think that it’s not preference but inherent ability that gives others an advantage over you, then you are being racist by insisting that white people are so inferior that they can’t compete on their own merits. If you think there’s anti-white racism, you are right but it’s coming from you.	1617733065	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316275	47112177	manfred marcus	Bolivia	Republican ‘white supremacists’, desperate to cling to power…to abuse, are not only a miserably rigid bunch, unable or unwilling to understand what democracy means….if it means losing, however periodically, elections; but a real danger to society…if freedom and justice and trust in democratic institutions are trampled upon. Just because this nation was born on self-promoted racist premises, doesn’t mean we cannot change for the better, thus, recognize and support the richness of our diversity…and the beauty of making ‘voting’ as easy and universal as possible, the exact opposite of the current odious push… trying to dehumanize anybody that dares challenge stupidity, always in ample supply.	1617732108	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317067	79475351	bunny	argyle,ny	Everyone, regardless of “race” needs to read “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson. Quite the eye opener	1617734828	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317498	54971218	Angelus Ravenscroft	Los Angeles	White people who took over the lands of people of color are now angry that other people of color would also like to live on that land that was stolen in the first place. I’m a white person. I’m not especially smart and not especially eager to lose my job due to the long-overdue racial reckoning. But I’m not ignorant enough to not get the big-picture justice of it. And I’m not stupid enough to be used as a pawn in the Right’s hate games.	1617736598	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317040	48328064	Charles Thompson	Frozen Exoplanet	Wow ! Mitch McConnell is telling Coca Cola, Dell, Delta and Major League Baseball to shut up and dribble. Out of the other side of his mouth campaign contributions are ok…	1617734742	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317787	1032299	ken G	bartlesville	It is not only race but gender. “Proud Boys” “Boogaloo Bois” I expect are mostly incels. The rioters were overwhelmingly male.	1617737684	22	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317796	48530983	Jan N	Wisconsin	Why are white males so afraid that they won’t be able to successfully compete with non-white people? Do they really think deep inside that they are that inferior compared to non-white people? I don’t get it.	1617737726	17	1	FALSE	FALSE
112318063	27254425	Gary	Connecticut	If Pape’s conclusions are right then the next question is to find the characteristics that sort out whites who fear “replacement” and are willing to resort to violence from whites who are not. By way of hypothesis: Fox News viewers Evangelicals Militia members Misogynists	1617738709	17	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318064	27254425	Gary	Connecticut	If Pape’s conclusions are right then the next question is to find the characteristics that sort out whites who fear “replacement” and are willing to resort to violence from whites who are not. By way of hypothesis: Fox News viewers Evangelicals Militia members Misogynists	1617738709	1	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317060	48154828	Adam stoler	Bronx NY	this whole enchilada (no pun intended) has been cooking in white resentment land for years now. The age of the angry self entitled white male What you get when oligarchs use those way way beneath them socially/economically to stir up resentment, by dint of providing the less fortunate whites with people to look down on. The old joke goes: Why does Alabama exist? So people in Ga can look down on them Why does Mississippi exist? So people in Alabama can look down on them Why does Arkansas exist? So the people in Mississippi can look down on them… Arkansas is the unspoken end of the line. Sad to say, it’s no joke now. That’s what happens when you don’t fund and/or value good public education.	1617734798	12	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317286	62661042	Edward Hazart	NORCAL	These regions have lived in bubbles. And right wing propaganda has spread fear and martyrdom. Even Tucker pulls out the Nazi, “They will not replace us” in subtle form constantly. Those of us who live in multicultural areas and grew up with everyone think they are insane. They cannot be allowed to hold power. The only solution for them I see towards the rest of us is violence to remove multicultural society. Tucker Swanson Carlson constantly waged war against multicultural open society. He says adamantly that it always fails and won’t work. And? So that only leaves rounding the rest of us up in some fashion. What other solution can they have? That includes liberal whites, union leaders and educated people. I get them are scared of this massive change. That people that don’t look like them are moving out of expensive cities and bringing all sorts of different colors, languages and yummy food. But my goodness their desire to run around with guns and point them at the rest of us is dangerous and insane.	1617735659	2	2	FALSE	FALSE
112317487	87098991	James Masciandaro	San Bruno, CA	January 6 was clearly a rejection a multi racial democracy. Religion the root of magical thinking. Time to end religious rights facade, not compatible with human rights	1617736542	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318014	409996	Wade Nelson	Durango, Colorado	I have a Hard-working illegal immigrant friend that has stolen over 30 jobs. He keeps them in his garage. You see unscrupulous people like Unlicensed Contractors pulling up and paying cash for them. Right at daybreak usually. I don’t know how he gets away with it. He says he loves America because it is the land of opportunity oops there he goes he’s probably going to go steal another one! The irony is that I live in Sun City Arizona staunchly republican neighborhood and I couldn’t hire a white landscaper or roofer if I tried. Whites simply don’t want to work that hard esp when it’s over 100° out.	1617738518	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316430	39591892	RH	Maine	I recall that in early 2017 there was a wave of commentary citing Hillbilly Eulogy, and the like, with the lesson of Hillary’s loss attributed to ignoring those ‘deplorables.’ From my little corner, I tended to agree that the white working class poor had a legitimate gripe, as long as they avoided overt racism. Reading this, it’s like Trump maintained this group on a low simmer, scratching their itch, but not providing flea powder. Better to maintain their anger and discontent, as long as he could rely on their support. I still can’t understand why some of those overlooked whites never realized that they were being duped, as they continued to allow themselves be manipulated…. for free. MAGA was a source of pride and protest, but there was no payoff. Instead, they focused on the Satanic pedophilia to explain why, after 3+ years, all they had left was their anger.	1617732609	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112318054	98691591	OM	MT	The link to Pape’s earlier findings about the suicide bombers doesn’t work.	1617738677	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316454	101206080	William	Nashville	White supremacy. Clear as the noonday sun.	1617732680	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317621	3969850	Pdxtran	Minneapolis	It doesn’t help that there are organized “lecturers” who go from small town to small town, scaring ignorant people about the alleged dangers of immigration. “The Muslim immigrants are looking to establish the Caliphate.” “Your children will be forced to learn Spanish!” (Oh no, they’ll be required to learn a foreign language, just like schoolchildren in most countries outside the U.S.) “Blond and blue-eyed people will become extinct!” “The Bible will be banned!” And their arguments go downhill from there.	1617737050	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317327	16410987	Trevor Bajus	Brooklyn NY	I am shocked, shocked to find out that the people who stormed the capital to preserve Trump’s overtly racist policies are themselves racists! Why, the next thing you know, you’ll tell me that the people who show up to the World Series are baseball fans!	1617735848	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317963	344352	Tom	MA	I assume that Pape is referring to the SPLC work in January when he mentions “other analysts.” He claims he’s contradicting them, but he sounds a lot like them. <a href=“https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/22/capitol-insurrection-shows-how-trends-far-rights-fringe-have-become-mainstream” target="_blank">https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/01/22/capitol-insurrection-shows-how-trends-far-rights-fringe-have-become-mainstream</a>;	1617738318	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317548	74928083	sedanchair	Tacoma WA	Call them what they are, trash. How many syllables do I need to say it? Ta-ra-hash. There’s one kind of person who has nothing to stake their pride in but the whiteness of their skin, and that’s trash.	1617736764	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317625	141733688	Estevan	Los Angeles	Someone tell Andrew Yang.	1617737066	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316254	58998547	nixrox03	Midwest America	One word: Racism Two words: White evangelicals	1617732051	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316563	76120259	Anonymous Bioengineer	Palo Alto	The NYTs campaign to alienate working class Whites continues. Contrary to woke philosophy, racism is not unique to Whites (yes, I capitalize White). Racism is ubiquitous in all human societies. For example, anti-Asian hatred is rampant in many African American communities. In China, foreigners are viewed as inferior in every way. Instead of producing new Republican voters with puff pieces such as this, perhaps a little perspective, and empathy, is in order.	1617733062	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316908	62804261	Rwink5	san diego	this is nothing less than WSPS; White Supremacist Panic Syndrome.	1617734261	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317278	100093309	Rebecca	CDM, CA	Tell it like it is, Mr. Pape! ‘They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class (racist) whites who are worried (fearful) that, as social changes (minorities) occur (gain power) around them, they will see a decline in (have to work harder to keep) their status in the future.”	1617735636	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317717	65820219	tombo	new york state	On January 6th there were Nazi’s there. There were white supremacist militias. There were confederate flags and on and on it went with white supremacist symbols, shouts and slurs. All of it was out in the open for anyone willing to see it to do so. Think about that. Nazi’s in 21st century America showing up to commit textbook fascist political violence against the elected representatives of the American people and they were welcomed by the then president of the United States, he even told them he “loved” them after their failed deadly attack on the Capitol, and his party. That is Trump’s, and now the Republican Party’s, base. That is who they are. The rest of us need to accept this ugly reality about the Republican Party if we are going to defeat them and their radical agenda.	1617737445	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317553	86268169	Elizabeth	Kansas	Thank you for this article, Alan. Unraveling the biggest crime in US history is going to take time, and it is good to hear about preliminary findings.	1617736780	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316986	56025659	sj	kcmo	Income/wealth changes since the last generation: 5% increase in BOTH income and wealth for the wealthiest in the US (that demographic probably does not include anyone of non-European descent unless they immigrated here as a professional, EB-5 investment visa holder). The rest of the top 20% includes affluent professionals. While their actual EARNED incomes have grown ONLY 1%, their WEALTH has increased by 11% (they’re the ones–also known as Other People’s Money– whom are propping up the financial markets for the wealthy majority share-owners to scoop up and concentrate further on the cheap during times of distress). The working class poor have remained static like the wealthy in their income and wealth gains, only at 1% instead of 5%. The decreasing middle class has a double-digit loss in both income and wealth….this from a graph I’ve seen in the past two years–maybe from the Upshot here. The republican party has always needed a token minority whom was happy to go along for the ride (Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Ben Carson, for example). But this is really a war between the political party operatives over whom gets the crumbs the majority owners of this country throws to whomever is in power. Republicans used to be the party of business, but the wage slaves–white, blue, pink…whatever colored collar–are wising up.	1617734542	2	1	FALSE	FALSE
112317265	89073798	Lee Rentz	Stanwood, MI	This should not be surprising. Surveys of the greatest problems facing America consistently have Republicans saying that illegal immigration is at or near the top of the list. The fear is visceral in these people, strong enough for them to storm their own government.	1617735571	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317268	94522139	Marielle	Detroit	Please note this has been the focus of much-scholarship from sociologists, anthropologists, and others in the social sciences. Not to mention labor activists. The root cause is that there is so much intrinsic and believed value on whiteness for those now in the dominant culture. The reality is for some time, and it has been true. The ability to navigate life with value-added whiteness is at this core a non-phenomena. We see time and again when majority white populations will vote against the own interest in support of the overarching needs of rich white conservatives for the privilege of the coalescing in whiteness. The NYT did an excellent article on Obamacare. Many of those who actually benefited from it by now being able to access healthcare for themselves and their children stated they were against it. I have seen factories sail right out of this country, and the white workers rather than advocate for severance or community support telling the few whites who did support " Why work with the Blacks? If they succeed, you will get what they do anyway". This happens so often; that is why it continues to be studied. The only two books that truly get to the heart of the matter are bell hooks, Black Looks, and Andrew Hacker’s Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.	1617735597	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317666	60108061	Unbalanced	San Francisco	Are there any examples of the in crowd graciously giving way? Anywhere? Ever? Everything is relative. Even if equality is achieved by improving everyone else’s condition without worsening yours, if you used to have more privilege than everyone else and now you don’t, you’ve lost something. You’ve lost your advantage. Psychology teaches that what people fear most is losing what they have. So of course the threatened loss of advantage will be resisted.	1617737226	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317270	56025659	sj	kcmo	Changes in income/wealth over the past generation: Wealthiest have increased income and wealth equally by 5% each Affluent top 20% beneath them have only seen a 1% increase in EARNED income, but 11% increase in WEALTH….they are the Other People’s Money who is propping up assets to be bought on the cheap in distressed times and further concentrated by the wealthiest majority owners. Working class poor’s income/wealth growth has grown equally at 1%. Decreasing middle class has seen double digit losses in both income/wealth. The political party operatives are fighting one another over whom gets the crumbs the majority ownership of this country will throw at them. Republicans have brought along a few token minorities who were happy to go along for the ride (think Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Ben Carson, etc), but their party-of-business stature is being threatened because the peons–white, blue, pink, or whatever colored collar–are wising up.	1617735601	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317151	69145499	Tex Mex	On The Border	I am white, sixty y.o., unemployed, bachelors degree, cis male with no health care. So I could strive and complain simultaneously in late middle age limbo. But how is my station in life special, worse or more deserving than other American ? I am comfortable in my skin. I make certain to conduct myself so that anyone I meet and interact with is addressed and treated as I would hope to be treated likewise. I do take a pass on any white privilege guilt trip. My parents and grandparents supported me. They were not racist nor took advantage of persons of less advantage or resources during my upbringing. Quite the opposite, they behaved admirably towards all in the community. I do what I can to keep society equitable going forward.	1617735137	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317747	3017703	George N. Wells	Dover, NJ	Depressing and sad that Americans see rights as a fixed quantity, that when somebody is granted rights, somebody else has to lose them. Sadder still because a lot of the white Americans ancestors came here from another country where they were persecuted and their ancestors weren’t welcomed here when they arrived. Gradually, they became the Americans we recognize. Name the nation of origin and you will find that that your ancestors were not welcomed with open arms and acceptance. What makes anyone an American? Acceptance of the constitution and laws of this nation. Yes, it is both that simple, and that complicated. There are those who stoke our fears of others in every nation on the planet. Sadly, the majority of nations have a basic genetic definition of who is and who isn’t one of us. America is unique in that we consider that acceptance and compliance with the constitution and laws as superior to genetic background. Yes, America has serious problems that need to be addressed but nobody is taking or diminishing your rights even if you believe they are.	1617737530	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316960	76063078	JR	SLO, CA	Inequity is instability. It’s a universal “law.” If you want a stable world, equitable access for all to the means of living basically well is required. Another universal “law:” monoculture is not sustainable. Diversity is resilient, therefore: multi-culture not monoculture. Why are these so hard for so many people to understand?	1617734445	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317037	65412302	Deborah	Minneapolis	I have always been a pragmatist. Change what you can, learn how to deal w/ what you can’t. If we accept the premise widely stated that Caucasians will be in the minority by 2050 what does that mean? First, can we assume it is inevitable? Second, is that a problem for white people, and if so why? I(Personally, I think it is fear of retribution for centuries of white people bad behavior.) If it is a problem, figure out why and try to fix it. If not, then what is the issue? I think the underlying message here is that a portion of white America sees their primacy threatened, and that scares the pants off of them. So. Do we try to allay those fears or not bother knowing that time will take care of the issue for us? Civilizations rise, civilizations fall. Where are we on the continuum?	1617734734	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317255	4821348	Dave R	NYC	This was one of those moments when I thought I might be reading The Onion. Seriously, take a look at the crowds of people who attend Trump rallies.	1617735541	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317454	76702267	Nathan	Tulsa, OK	I live in Oklahoma, so I have encountered a LOT of people in this group. What I think really drives all their political behavior is the terror that they may not be able to tell themselves they are in control of their own lives/destinies and the lives of their children anymore. The mythology (and it is that) of the American Dream has its hooks DEEP in this demographic, and they see “other/s” as a threat to their claim on that mythology. They aren’t able to see that they’ve already achieved the American dream as it was defined in the 40s-60s. They also don’t see the mammoth social problems that plague black and brown Americans as good per say (they mostly really aren’t sociopaths), they just see them as somebody else’s problem. The “rugged individualism” of the American psych has so embedded itself into their cosmology that they really don’t believe they are responsible for anything other than they and their own family’s well-being. Black people’s problems are just that. This demographic’s problem (in their mind) is to hold on to their place in the mythic structure they think defines their place in the world. From there, everything about our politics makes a lot more sense.	1617736424	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317505	49975250	arusso	or	“But instead he found something very different: Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.” Even if they do not consciously realize it, these people are pushing back against loss of the head start they have had for generations. “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” ― Franklin Leonard	1617736611	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317611	139792	Timothy Jackson	Atlanta	As a 59 year old white man, I get what a lot of these commenters are saying - there ARE a lot of blatant racists in this country. I was fortunate enough to be in the USAF, deployed in Germany at the height of the Cold War with an Army anti missile unit comprised of mostly Black men. We lived, trained and played together and I learned they were no different than me, hungered and thirsted, were patriots, wanted to better themselves, loved their wives and children just as I did. Some of us were from rural areas, some from cities. We had our differences but the slightest hint racism WAS NOT TOLERATED by enlisted or officers commanders, with severe penalties handed out to offenders. Today I live in a military community in the deep south where the Black population is ~30%. I see my Black and Hispanic neighbors as Americans; with the same hopes and dreams for their families as I have for mine. I believe this type of common service experience would solve most of our race based problems in America today, 2 years of some sort of compulsory national service before college, working side by side, perhaps at rebuilding hard and soft infrastructure would highlight our commonality instead of our differences. This would probably be anathema to our ruling class who thrive by dividing us by class and race. Best reason I can think of to do it.	1617737014	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317745	41372884	Lois	Morrison, CO	Being white and trying always to respect every person and learn about their life experiences even if I will never fully understand them, I am always amazed by the “tales” white people tell themselves. I live in a rural area and horrified at the George Floyd killing, and a host of others that had occurred during the same time period. I attempted to talk to a neighbor–who fired back that no one had made a fuss about a white Idaho rancher who was supposedly shot by a State Policeman after he called for help when a cow had been hit on the highway. I researched the story online and found it was a far different story occurring several years ago. It was a killing of an Idaho rancher–but the culprit was a white rural volunteer deputy sheriff who had serious mental issues. It was a single tragic event and nothing like the torture and death of Mr. Floyd and the domestic terrorism committed by the police officers present on the people of that community. But it was just another story white people tell themselves to justify their callous attitudes toward people they view as unlike them.	1617737528	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316962	17374907	Blackmamba	IL	The white European American Judeo-Christian majority is rapidly aging and shrinking with a below replacement level birthrate. Coupled with a decreasing white European American Judeo-Christian life expectancy due to alcoholism, drug addiction,depression,suicide and COVID-19. Republicans represent the dreams, fears,hopes and nightmares of the white European American voting majority. Trump won 58% of the white European American voting majority in 2016 among 63 million American voters. Trump won 74 million American voters in 2020 including 57% of the white European American voting majority. McCain won 57% of the white voting majority in 2008. Romney won 59% in 2012. Democrats have won the white European American voting majority since the Presidential election of 1964. While the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S.Grant and Dwight D.Eisenhower has devolved into the party of Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson and Strom Thurmond. Whomever Republican will win 57% of the white European American voting majority in 2024. With the Senate, the Electoral College and the Supreme Court of the United States and state’s rights sovereignty giving hope of exploiting our very peculiar divided limited different power constitutional republic of united states in order to frustrate any delusions of democracy.	1617734450	1	2	FALSE	FALSE
112317141	25963862	FightForWhatisRight1776	New York	All of this should be obvious. What isn’t obvious is why Trump hasn’t been arrested for his role in the Capitol attack.	1617735086	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317382	26796617	TK Sung	SF	Just about everybody and their cousins knew that the rioters were mostly white nationalists and evangelicals. The real question is why Mr. Pape “expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession”. Maybe he mixed up 2008 with 1789 and the rioters with the French under Louise XVI. I think what’s happening in some parts of the country is a part of a normal integration process: 1) when a few outsiders move in, they are a novelty; 2) when more comes, they become a threat; 3) when even more comes, people get used to each other and it becomes a new normal. (Well, at least till Trump agitate people against each other). The area where the rioters come from are going through the stage 2 and will eventually become stable when they arrive at the minority-majority state. It’s just a growing pain and we just need to make sure that the condition that made Trump possible won’t happen again by helping working/middle class people to stay afloat and get ahead.	1617736113	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316997	72296649	TS	Washington	Excellent insights! The similarity between the motivations of Capitol rioters and Middle Eastern suicide bombers highlights the common human elements to these seemingly disparate events. Once again, this underscores why science-based policy and decision making is so essential!	1617734602	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317129	56205908	Dave k	Florida	Whenever I tell people that possibly within our lifetime Hispanics will be the majority race in America, they get angry and argue about losing their country. I really don’t know how to respectfully respond to such ignorance without calling someone ignorant, which some people take as a bad word. I am Anglo-Saxon with my genealogy being that of England, Wales and Ireland. My best friend is Puerto Rican, which I never think about because he is my friend, period. I grew up on the poorer end of lower middle class without the privilege some classmates had, but I never took for granted that I didn’t have to grow up being called names because of my race. I know what scared to lose a job feels like but I never blamed blacks or Hispanics for it.	1617735052	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317665	62531032	Randy	Boulder CO	The perception among threatened whites seems to be that constitutional rights are a zero sum game; that there are only a limited number of rights to go around and that theirs are somehow diluted or damaged or diminished if previously marginalized groups become more fully enfranchised.	1617737224	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316973	64397379	Deirdre	New Jersey	You would think these people who feel their status is threatened would support the only party advocating for infrastructure spending but they are not. If these folks are fearful of others taking their place it is entirely due to their inability to think critically . They support fascist and autocratic leaders who drain their country of funds and resources by giving it all to the wealthy . Good jobs, healthcare, affordable child care, and low cost college are all good things that help us all. Unfortunately, these people can’t think past their own fears.	1617734486	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317194	125034	ABS	from COS	>“middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future” Ironic. The only thing that causes a decline in their status is their own actions.	1617735284	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317320	21118985	cre8	Lower Hudson Valley	This isn’t news to anyone of color. especially those of us who have succeeded academically, socially, career-wise. Minorities are intelligent, motivated and willing to work hard to succeed. Isn’t that the American dream? Yet, minorities who succeed are targets of resentment, hatred, vicious lies, and sabotage meant to undermine hard-won achievements by those who fear losing their superiority. If white people are so fearful of losing out, maybe they can find ways to elevate themselves by elevating their communities, not destroy it through hatred and violence.	1617735812	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317496	94586587	Jim	Idaho	It is utterly baffling to me that 5 years into the era of Trumpism, credible media authorities and political figures still ascribe the movement to economics. That is crazy. These people are obviously ivory tower eggheads who have not spent so much as one single minute with one single Trump loyalist. Trumpers are motivated by racism, they’ve always been motivated by racism and will continue to be motivated by racism going forward. I live among the densest concentration of Trumpers in the country, and I was a cop, a profession riddled with Trump loyalty. These people are pretty clear as to what motivates them. Anyone who has only a few brief conversations with the average Trump loyalist will know they are motivated primarily by racial fears over any other issue. It is so clear that it is beyond stupefying that any credible researcher could come to any other conclusion. Such researchers must not get out much.	1617736586	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317583	50767647	lansford	Toronto, Canada	Who are these people who always hate?. From the article, it seems that there is a group of people who hate others whether they’re from Africa, Italy or elsewhere. Just why haven’t these people been studied to the max?. It seems to me that they are extremely dangerous to the future of democracy.	1617736888	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317816	15562848	Jack	Austin	Haven’t read Anne Applebaum’s book Twilight of Democracy but read the related essay in the Atlantic she wrote first, and read some of her book promotion interviews. My main takeaway from what she had to say was that there’s an important difference between people whose status and livelihood is tied in large measure to their ability to achieve status within a dominant group using the sorts of skills that came in handy on school playgrounds and in school lunchrooms and that continue to come in handy later in life when dealing with people who possess some sort of power within a group; and people whose status and livelihood is tied in large measure to their ability to solve problems and accomplish tasks in reasonably well-paying jobs. I think it’s important to keep this distinction in mind when generalizing about groups of people sorted according to age, race, gender, or geographic locality.	1617737787	2	2	FALSE	FALSE
112316554	30210067	Lisa Henderson	Philadelphia PA	And water is wet.	1617733030	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317602	82030961	Steve	Washington	diversity is here and it isn’t going away. white male dominance will soon be a thing of the past. it’s either accept it and work with it or perish under the weight of your own ignorance.	1617736961	13	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316516	74607732	SAH	Connecticut	This is nothing new ask and black person in America. Trump is the best WORST THING to happen to America. These people would rather see the country burndown rather than exist with humanity	1617732916	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317623	66916753	Jim	Montgomery County, PA	all of this because a black guy tried to fix the health care system	1617737059	18	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316139	70996289	susan	CA	for god’s sake white people! relax! nobody is trying to replace you, and there is enough to go around! take a moment, or many, to really put yourself in truly oppressed and targeted people’s shoes. work on empathy, not just from your white perspective. understand the concept of micro agressions and how you might be doing it all day long with your Black Lives Matter bumper sticker. take a lesson from POC, immigrants, and other historically constantly beat down americans( who’ve just wanted to live their lives without organized,often brutal interference)- work honest/hard, take care of your familes/neighbors, be kind, give back your fair share, mind your own business, embrace democracy, don’t be a damned hypocrite, and have faith in your fellow citizens and our beautifully flawed country.	1617731688	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317188	62271221	Sarah	Knoxville, TN	Charles Barkley (yes, the basketball player) had it correct years ago when he characterized the typical Trump voter as, “These are people who can’t look in the mirror and admit, ‘My life sucks because of me.’”	1617735273	37	2	FALSE	FALSE
112317471	13798119	RB	TX	If these white thugs represent the American white race of today maybe it’s best they are replaced, voted out of office at least until they can act like a civilized people………. Violence and anger do not make one “civilized”, But, Left uncontrolled it does make one a thug - see the U S Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 if you need a reference………	1617736493	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112317687	58135798	Mack	New England	Why is it impossible to understand that, from the perspective of the average heterosexual white person, it boils down to fear of discrimination? What proof is there that if whites are in the minority that their rights won’t be trampled on; that they won’t be subject to discrimination? In their eyes, heterosexual whites born after 1964 see a world perpetuating two sets of rules and standards. We need to improve the representation of Black Americans to equal their proportion of the population in professions where they are “underrepresented” but this notion of proportionality is confusing and a little hypocritical. Are we “righting” historic wrongs by perpetuating future ones? Why is no one is demanding the NBA hire more non-Black players? Are we supposed to see color? Not see color? Why is it OK for Black Americans to use the “N” word? Conversely, where’s the outrage when Black heterosexual rappers use the “F” word? The conversation needs to start with, “no one is interested in hurting you further…” and it needs to be said to both Black and white Americans (and every other “American”). We all need to listen and learn more.	1617737320	8	2	FALSE	FALSE
112317697	63533354	Prof. Ron	Oregon USA	Robert Pape’s study finds that many of the insurrectionists of January 6 come from predominantly white communities marked by “…fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.” What still needs to be explained is WHY people who come from such communities – or anyone – would think that extending the same rights that white people enjoy to minorities and immigrants could result in “…crowding out the rights of white people….” One possible explanation is that some white people in America simply do not understand the concept of “rights” that is fundamental to any democracy. To think that ones rights will be “crowded out” if others have the same rights seems to derive from a belief that that rights are like power and privilege, which would be diluted or diminished if shared among too many people. But rights do not work that way. Rights are strengthened when they are held in common among all the members of a community or society. One ominous implication of Mr Pape’s study seems to be that there are predominantly white communities in America in which our fellow citizens no longer understand the meaning of rights in a democracy, and are now just concerned about losing what they imagine to be their race-based entitlements of power and privilege to newly arriving people who are more determined to learn, work, and get ahead than they are.	1617737359	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314701	139165824	Caesius	LINY	Status…thats the race based code of choice now. Its like “law and order” campaign rhetoric referring to black and other non-white communities. Status, in this white fear based rhetoric is simply referring to Caste. Whites, no matter their economic conditions, must always remain in the top tiers of the castes. And all non whites, black brown and all others in the lowest. In the Indian system..the Dalits, the outcasts. Polling has long shown that even poor, disadvantaged whites would prefer not to get any aid, so to prevent it going to non whites, or those deemed “others”. Zero sum gain mentality among many whites is literally, seriously hurting and very often killing them and their family. The concept of raising all boats just does not penetrate. Its such a deep and belligerent, knee jerk mentality. it might be genetic…	1617727600	53	2	FALSE	FALSE
112314097	51878992	Socrates	Downtown Verona, NJ	The leading indicators of a 2016 Trump voter was distance from a city AND a total lack of diversity in their hometowns…..in other words, voters from all-white communities who barely know a person of color were and are the most fervent supporters of Trump. White nativists have formed the core of Trumpism since 2015 when he started campaigning. The Jan 6 2021 attack on the United States Capitol was just a continuation of that Whites R Us Trump-inspired glide path. They just can’t get past the color of their own milky white skin…..and are thrilled to reject democracy for the sake of their own pigmentation. There’s nothing kind to be said of these folks.	1617725997	535	8	FALSE	FALSE
112314011	84894123	Lonnie	Brooklyn, NY	We are in the middle of a deep, but simple Social Inflection Point– We are now Living in an America that Elected had no problem electing a Black Man to the White House. This is now the America where an Asian American can be head of a major corporation– not a server in an ethnic restaurant. This is now the America where just being White, Male with just a High School diploma no longer gives you first dibs on ANY job where you are given grace to ‘Learn the Ropes’. You now have to COMPETE with OTHER Americans. This is now the America where the rest of US don’t have to stand back and obey all the small, unwritten racist rules that stood in our way– despite our efforts, despite our sacrifices, despite our education. This is the America where we no longer hear words: “That’s jus’ the way we do things aroun’ he’ah. That’s jus’ the way it is.” They want the America of 1950 to somehow come back around. The core issue is STILL Economic. The Economy of that OLD America always reserved a good seat at the Table of Competition for these under-skilled Whites. But Corporate America NO LONGER NEEDS THEM. Us Non-white Folks had nothing to do with it. And this is no longer the America where we will stand aside in the gutter to let them pass. And the irony is that most of them were never even yet BORN during those old glory days of the 50’s Change and Adapt with the rest of US…or lay down, close your eyes and use that Battle Flag as your shroud.	1617725775	37	3	FALSE	FALSE
112313339	68384978	Sheilawm	Roseville, MN	Fellow white people. If you fear you are losing out to brown or black people go look in the mirror. Need more work skills? Get them. Need more education? Get it. Need more self esteem? Angry? Get a therapist. Need more empathy toward your fellow man? Find a group of friends who care about everyone and the earth. As a 17-year old single mother 52 years ago–I did all the above. Life is good. I know who I am. I am retired from a great career and I am at peace.	1617723992	200	5	FALSE	FALSE
112313141	62513709	Jon	Portland, OR	To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.	1617723501	1237	27	FALSE	FALSE
112314578	7139615	J. Swift	US	This explains how a person could vote Obama and then trump. Their fears were calmed by Obama and inflamed by trump. Now they are calmed by Biden. The fears are still there. They shouldn’t expect to conquer their fears through the ballot.	1617727268	8	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316671	89971750	AlNewman	Connecticut	The loss of status among the white working class is real. Middle-class jobs have been shipped overseas since the late ‘60s and real wages for an entire swath of people have stagnated. I grew up in suburbia on a half acre with two cars in the garage, I and my brothers went to college, all on an engineer’s salary. You can’t do that today. One of the solutions to the fears and anxieties of not only whites but to the underclass in this society is Biden’s agenda: heavy spending on infrastructure, generous transfer payments, union organization and greater access to health care. An economic boom is in the making. The question is whether working class whites will be able to resist right-wing rhetoric about socialism as they see their fortunes improve. Let’s hope.	1617733418	20	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315895	50180668	Talbot	New York	The US is the first industrialized country where the majority are transitioning to minority status. It’s already occurred for kids and will be populatiin wide in 20 years. There is nothing to compare this to. It hasn’t happened before. I suggest we pay close attention to the reactions.	1617731039	7	2	FALSE	FALSE
112316276	60407145	Mike L	SC	This fear unfortunately is rooted in some truth. Born in 1966, by the 1990’s I noticed that I was up against reverse discrimination in my chosen profession. You see, the company I worked for had just lost a big lawsuit in California and had to promise to hire more women & minorities. Well, what they did was simply to stop hiring white males and only hired women & minorities for some years. That put me behind by years, I almost gave up. I know guys who got the position by lying on the application about their heritage. I also noticed it in my college admissions. I ended up having to apply as a commuter and get a local apartment because the competition with girls & minorities was so intense. I have always said that there will never be true equality until everyone is treated equally and there are no ‘special exceptions’ just because of your race or sex. But that is just not the case and so the cycle goes on.	1617732111	8	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316428	66011631	Kathy	SF	Everyone needs to study hard and work hard. People could learn a lot about both if they tried. I’d be more sympathetic if these people were as concerned about other people, animals, and our environment as they are about themselves.	1617732608	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316599	56811715	John C. Van Nuys	Crawfordsville, IN	In my 150 unit apartment complex, there are 3 vehicles with “Three Percenter” decals. The county in which I am a pastor was ranked in the top 10 Indiana counties for opioid addiction. Our county ranks well above the state average for child abuse and neglect, which stems largely from parental drug use. 50% of county students qualify for free and reduced lunches. One in every 3 county children suffers food insecurity. The recent arrival and modest success of Hispanics has, through no fault of their own, underscored the slide of increasing white intergenerational poverty. If coastal Democrats can find reasonable, heartland Republicans and labor together to address these root causes, progress is possible. If not, future Trumpian figures will exploit grievance, racism, and despair, resulting in more tragedies like January 6.	1617733183	5	2	FALSE	FALSE
112316883	66854997	annberkeley2008	Toronto	The findings in this article are actually quite shocking. All the press coverage of visits to diners in Trump-voting areas led me to believe that people were hurting economically and were clinging to the ex president as a sort of lifeline. Now to find his voters are relatively comfortably off and just Trump-flag waving and screaming for nothing makes me feel sick. I did hear that many of those arrested after the Capitol attack were either known to the police or had been through bankruptcies so I don’t know where that fits….	1617734149	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316142	48066155	BW	Brooklyn	To my fellow White brethren, It’s time to face the music. The United States is looking more and more like the rest of the world: multicultural, multiracial, and diverse in spiritual traditions. There’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s not a zero-sum game, in which the advancement of others means a step backwards for us. If you befriend someone from a different religious, political, or cultural tradition than yours, you’ll see that only good can come from a respect for diversity.	1617731694	12	2	FALSE	FALSE
112316333	51574556	Edwina	New York	@Gregory Paul. I feel like your comment and mindset is indicative of “white privilege”. There are two major hierarchies in this country - a social hierarchy and an economic hierarchy. The two major hierarchies certainly interact with one another, but the social hierarchy has always been the more important of the two. Since the inception of the USA, a social hierarchy of whites on top has been used to justify the maltreatment of Native Americans, Black Americans, and immigrants. The social hierarchy remains more important in contemporary society. For example, ask any affluent to wealthy African-American if their financial status has inoculated them from racism and racial prejudice in the USA, you will hear a resounding and universal “No”. There is no amount of money that enables POC to escape racism in the USA. Likewise, review Robert Pape’s research more closely, the treasonous, insurrectionists were largely from middle and upper middle class backgrounds. This is consistent with other data on trump supporters, their average income is $75K. It’s not economic anxiety or their standing in the economic hierarchy that is unsettling to them, rather it is the dismantling of the social hierarchy in which “whiteness” is presumed to be “superior”. My question is why do these white Americans lack self-esteem (e.g. have a psychological need to believe they are superior to POC) and lack self-efficacy (unwillingness to compete on a fairer playing field)?	1617732276	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316699	66165744	Constant Reader	California	Even though this is based on small numbers at a single event compared to the entire country, or to the parts of it with declining white population, this looks right on target. Some of the comments below are grasping at straws to avoid it, but some get it clearly. Its implications are terrifying, and it is what the Republican Party, which will stop at nothing, has come to represent. We need not only a renewed Voting Rights Act, we need a renewed Civil Rights Act, both with serious enforcement.	1617733482	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315929	74739183	Red State Blue Woman	Pacific NW	Mack in New England- I believe your idea would carry more weight if you fleshed it out a bit more: What exactly do we need to hear from White Americans in order to understand what they are going through? BTW - I am an old white woman that grew up in a overwhelmingly white state. What problems are you encountering that are caused by your race, gender or sexuality? How is the push for equality (not equal outcome) for all humans impacting you and your family/friends? How is the discussion of historical racism and sexism in the United States affecting you? Once again, I am a white woman, and I can honestly say that I do not feel as if I have been impoverished, discriminated against or negatively impacted by increased equality. I do agree with you, everyone needs to be heard, but that does not mean that we will agree.	1617731130	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316170	55920940	D. DeMarco	Baltimore	“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” An awful lot of Republicans, many of the Trumpers, have a lot of problems with this concept. I think most are afraid they will have to work as hard as women and minorities do.	1617731797	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316517	73420560	steve schaffer	oakland, CA	I couldn’t care less about the racial makeup of “who is in charge” but I don’t feel the need to financially support the people or give them unfair advantages such as affirmative action, quotas, and language forgiveness. Nothing like being capable, qualified, and honestly assessed to elevate a society.	1617732919	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316864	66983264	Heather	Tennessee	The bigger picture is that there’s a power struggle going on and the white Republican side has been strategically organizing for years. They have been stockpiling grievances and also weapons. And within certain circles, they have normalized talk of killing members of groups demonized as enemies. We write and talk like this is a matter of individuals developing opinions and acting more or less independently. What they are developing is far more organized and dangerous than media coverage suggests. We are headed to a point where activists, journalists, and politicians fear for their lives if they do something that white supremacists disagree with. The danger doesn’t just come from overt threats and obvious attacks; it starts with people self-censoring out of fear. Then the threat grows, un-reported on (or reported on in a wishy-washy way). Now is the time to push back, to make sure that we don’t end up like countries where activists and journalists risk being killed for their work. The attack on the Capitol is evidence that it can happen here.	1617734070	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316239	4670327	zumzar	nyc	I hope that Trump followers take a note on how many people around their beloved leader faced jail sentences because they got involved with Trump’s dirty work. Starting from the people who worked for his campaign and the cabinet, his lawyers and family members. What is noticeable is how quickly he ditched them once they were no longer needed or became too much of the political or legal risk for him.	1617732011	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316513	56095671	Amelia	Northern California	It was and has never been about “economic anxiety.”	1617732907	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316836	18080714	WhiteBearLake	US	The great equalizer is education. If you don’t get at minimum a high school education, you will turn out to be economically disadvantaged black or white. If minorities want to achieve, they have to keep their children in school. The drop out rate for minorities is abysmal. We blame the teachers, we blame the money (not enough) we blame everybody but the parents. No one dares blame the parents. I went to schools that had upwards to 40 children in a class. We learned. We were expected to learn. Stop spending money on schools. Spend money reaching out to parents. If you cannot bluntly say to parents your children get 12+ years of education free and if you do not take advantage of it, they will be poor for the rest of their lives. And perhaps we should re-institute night school for dropouts who have figured out their lives and are willing learn and be examples for their own children. And as a privileged white person, I want to see privileged minorities. The more, the better.	1617733967	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316922	60790181	William Case	United States	The Census Bureau projects that whites, who made up 97.5 percent of the U.S. population in 2014, will make up 76.3 percent of the U.S. population in 2060, if current immigration trends continue. It projects that non-Hispanic whites will decrease from 77.5 percent of the population in 2014 to 68.5 percent in 2060. The other 31.5 percent of the white population would be whites who immigrated to America from Spanish-speaking countries or Hispanic whites who have an ancestor who immigrated from a Spanish-speaking country. However, it is unlikely that a distinction between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic whites will be made in 2060. Intermarriage between Non-Hispanic whites and Hispanic whites is becoming as much the rule as the exception, especially in our most populous states—California and Texas. Source: Table 2 (Population by Race and Hispanic Origin), Projections of the Size and Composition of the U..S: 2014 to 2060, page 9. <a href=“https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf” target="_blank">https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf</a>;	1617734310	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316790	90234992	Howard Gregory	Hackensack, N.J.	For people of color, many of whom have experienced racism in many forms throughout their lives, white cultural resentment is very old news though I concede that it is nice to have the support of a scientific study to bolster our belief that America continues to have a serious racism problem. Conservatives have been stoking the flames of white cultural resentment to win the political support of working-class white voters for several decades. The culture war has replaced conservative economic theory as the Republican Party’s main campaign and recruitment weapon. Additionally, the FBI has known for years that the lion’s share of America’s political violence is being committed by far-right, white-identity political groups. So, the recent pro-Trump Capitol Riot by members of far-right groups and others who support their racist beliefs is not surprising. What is disturbing is the FBI’s greater focus on Black political activists despite overwhelming statistical evidence that the far-right is a superior threat to domestic security. The ACLU is even reporting that the bureau has reprised its defunct domestic counterintelligence program and is targeting Black political activists. It would be great if Mr. Pape, The Times, The Washington Post, and the Congress would investigate this matter along with our domestic counterterrorism effort to ensure compliance with our Constitution and our laws. <a href=“https://fair.org/home/the-fbi-appears-to-be-engaged-in-a-modern-day-version-of-cointelpro” target="_blank">https://fair.org/home/the-fbi-appears-to-be-engaged-in-a-modern-day-version-of-cointelpro</a>/	1617733798	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316856	140527273	Tim	NYC	I think it’s quite funny how when BLM protests were lighting police stations on fire the liberal media said it was just a healthy response to injustice, but when Trump supporters do a similar thing it gets covered from every possible angle for 3 months and counting. Maybe stop worrying so much about the motive and instead just universally condemn violence?	1617734043	7	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316893	94828425	Joe	Bear, DE	Trying to remember the last time I saw the word “white” written or spoken in any positive way in a news article/report. Not that I expect to see a headline that says, “White man saves drowning child”, but every time I see an article with the word white in the headline, I know where we’re headed. Asking for a friend.	1617734188	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316900	47074079	samuelclemons	New York	In our society money=class except for Trump and Kardashian and a whole host of others. How do we see ourselves, our reflection when we look in a mirror. Who are we mabye we were never Norman Rockwell’s America mabye pirates with greenbacks and the rest is mythos.	1617734213	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316833	68272250	Azad Husain	Guyana	Until some academic research is done to examine the loss of jobs by White Americans to immigrants (legal and undocumented, mostly non-white), the idea of White privilege will continue to resonate. And, as Chris Rock has demonstrated by noting that none of his mostly White audience would trade their place with him as a very rich Black man, White people are very aware of their White privilege. It is telling that the White people from mostly White communities are the ones most likely to buy into the false narrative that immigrants are replacing them.	1617733956	431	25	TRUE	FALSE
112316160	56369083	PAB	Maryland	Are white people actually concerned about the turning of the tables? That they will be told to go back to where they came from, that they will be attacked on the street, that their loved ones will be choked or shot to death by a police officer? Are they concerned about being stereotyped by employers because their first names are Karen or Brad? Do they think medical doctors will ignore their symptoms and undertreat their pain, because you know how those people are? Are they concerned that they will earn 60 cents for every dollar a black man earns? Are they concerned about being the last hired and the first fired? Maybe they are worried that their children will be automatically placed in the school to prison pipeline? Maybe they’re concerned that their houses will appraise hundreds of thousands of dollars below the market value? Are these the reasons white people and Republican politicians believe insurrection, voter suppression, and Trump are the answers to their survival?	1617731759	970	35	TRUE	FALSE
112315960	65364600	Daniel De Simone	New Jersey	“He expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession.” Why on earth is anyone still making that assumption? We’ve long known that people of low-to-mid income households were more likely to vote against Trump, while people with higher incomes disproportionately supported Trump. It’s also been proven again and again that holding racist views is the greatest predictor of Trump support, and people who hold misogynistic beliefs also disproportionately support Trump. I know the country was enamored of the “guy I met in an Ohio diner” unified theory of the Trump era, but if we let that repeatedly debunked theory finally die, we wouldn’t be surprised every time someone re-proves that the Trump coalition was motivated almost entirely by racial resentment.	1617731212	20	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316491	73094110	MDH	Long Beach, CA	In most mainstream media, the NYT no exception, white people who dislike demographic changes in their neighborhoods are excoriated as racists and supremacists. People of color who do the same are portrayed as fighting the good fight against gentrification and trying to preserve community. It would be nice to see more nuanced, less emotionally-driven coverage of the very real issue of how we balance the natural desire of people to live where they feel at home against the larger societal needs to integrate, welcome immigrants and achieve genuine equality.	1617732826	17	1	FALSE	FALSE
112316250	33968384	Lissa	Virginia	I wish he’d ask these folks what policies Trump enacted that spoke to them.	1617732042	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315807	49354039	Adam	Oakland, Ca	A key to this mindset is the fervent belief in a zero sum game. To them, new faces in addition to yours does not equal 1+1; it cancels you out. Hence, it’s never about lifting up, it’s about ensuring that others stay down. And despite millenia of evidence to prove that human interaction with other groups leads to countless and profound benefits, for some bizarre reason, xenophobia is embraced with a near religious fervor.  Less spoken about is how this translates into foreign trade, which we too often think of in these battle-like terms. Let’s be clear: another country’s economic development does not come at our expense. If another nation produces a vaccine, we benefit.	1617730803	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316238	63368360	JHM	UK	I am not surprised. This is xenophobia and sadly by those who have lost out the most perhaps in American society owed to their lack of education – parents who did not care or provide guidance, and/or personal decisions by these people not to do the hard work to succeed in a more fast-paced, complex workplace. Nowadays even with University education one must pick carefully, and it is not surprising that the “immigrant” or the young person from a family which is involved is more ready to make the required sacrifices to achieve. Come on White parents, wake up and stop blaming those who are geared for success or hard work. You have only yourselves to blame.	1617732009	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316303	70505918	BeTheChange	FL	That county list is a must-have for the next Green Book editions	1617732193	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316186	65669409	Syliva	Pacific Northwest	It’s not at all hard to see how some white people think that people of color and poor people are being “privileged” over white people. At colleges, the appearance is strong. Also, in the voices we increasingly hear from in the media. Even if the truth is that things are just being made equitable, that equity shift will be happening on a societal level. On an individual, case-by-case level it will sometimes feel different. So if you are ineligible for a certain scholarship, internship or other opportunity because you are not low income, or a person of color, it’s going to feel like others have more opportunity than you do. Because in that one single instance, they do. There may be historical reasons why it might be “fair” for others to have those opportunities and not you, but it’s not gonna feel fair to you in the moment. And then if you get called a racist for commenting on what feels unfair to you, you might just start looking for company on the internet.	1617731834	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316576	2373247	David G	Monroe NY	Unlike Trump’s rhetoric, it’s not a zero-sum game. If various groups are lifted up, we are all lifted up. Think back to the 1900 era, when the immigrant Irish/Italians/Jews were considered lower than the dirt. In one or two generations, these immigrants became not only integrated, but absolutely crucial to America’s success. We all gain.	1617733092	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316582	60462368	Jeff	Oregon	Yes, the conservative movement has always existed to help white people and keep them in power.	1617733111	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316212	49734012	Matt Andersson	Chicago	The “study” was commissioned. Operations by Special Activities always have ex post studies.	1617731946	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316635	77509251	Bob Santos	Rhode Island	Mr. Feuer writes, “…the racial and cultural anxieties that lay beneath the riot at the Capitol are not going away,” and that this is a movement of people who have “put violence at its core.” We are also informed that “only” 10 percent of them are members of “established [!] far-right [!!] organizations”. This is appalling. For decades these people have been manipulated by a cynical elite and an increasingly revanchist Republican party to feel this way. Technology has aided their message as it spread from 24 cable newsertainment to insular social media pods where lies replace reality. Now thoroughly programmed, they are easily manipulable pawns sent to attack the institutions of our democracy. Well, we need to start taking mass-deprogramming seriously. We need to look at who and how they are being turned into revolutionaries. So, any “racial and cultural anxieties” need to be put to bed. It’s absurd. Make them go away. The media we count on for honest journalism needs to step up and not serve as a mouthpiece amplifying their false, illegitimate grievances. The Democrats need to support growth and reinvestment. The courts need to justly sentence those who instigate or act on their violent impulses.	1617733292	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315818	47231823	Paul	Brooklyn	Your piece is 100% accurate and a history lesson but you don’t print one word on how to prevent it. The way you prevent it is by following the gold standard leader, Lincoln. He brought the people together and eschewed the extremes, rebels and radical republicans. Insist on things a majority of Americans need of all races like health care, infrastructure spending, blue collar job renewal etc. Eschew identity social engineering obsession, white privilege talk, generational shaming, woke politics, defunding the police, minority entitlement, anarchy etc. Also instead of a Lincoln/Douglass team, the gold standard we were stuck with Trump and Rev. Al. two camera hungry idea bankrupt demagogues who would not know a solution if it was handed to them.	1617730840	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315797	81952253	Diann	Tennessee	“The Great Replacement”, my foot. The article refers to TGR as a fringe right wing theory but avoids using the term racism, even as it mentions the Klan resurgence of WW1 but avoids the original Klan formation after the Civil War. Racists are afraid of losing power. They’ll destroy democracy to before they will countenance equality with other races. This is racism. Terminology matters.	1617730763	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315803	61507714	O	USA	People with money have privilege, that’s it.	1617730791	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316010	53771228	BB	Chicago	Prof. Pape’s report has a remarkable omission. Notwithstanding the giant crucifix, the insurrectionists’ kneeling in Christian prayer before they launched their assault on the Capitol and the triumphant prayer to Jesus once they had seized the Senate chamber, not to mention the Christian Bible and all the Christian rhetoric, he doesn’t even allow the question of religion in his questionnaire. Per Prof. Pape, none of what we saw on video footage and in pictures ever happened in reality. The FBI should be watching certain Christian sects that have organized around Trumpism and treason. Christian churches should be called to account to root out their hateful anti-Semitic liturgies. With distinguished researchers like Prof. Pape sweeping religion under the rug, Christianity is not going to get the scrutiny needed to protect us.	1617731344	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316387	85604507	Buzz D	NYC	I’m white, have been woke for many years, and know beyond a shadow of doubt that white people have reaped the majority of benefits in America just because they are in the majority in America. Privilege is Privilege. I’ve been given many, many breaks in my white life just because of the color of my skin and my maleness. Which was wrong. Those disenfranchised white people who believe Black Americans, immigrants, gays, Asians, Latinos, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others are the problems within America must have never looked in the mirror to see that many of “their” problems in life are self inflicted and exacerbated, inflammed, and pursued by wealthy White Americans playing the race card, over, and over and over. to maintain the White Status Quo.	1617732452	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316543	1902242	Carlton	Brooklyn,N.Y.	“They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.” It’s not just the middle and upper class, the poor are the real foot soldiers when it comes to abject cruelty and violence. From the Civil War thru Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era of the fifties and sixties, poor whites have a manufactured fear of losing “status” as well.	1617733010	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316736	146601129	Tim	WV	This study doesn’t surprise me. People like things simple, black and white, no grey. There is their group and everyone else at all kinds of level. White families have less kids than Black or Hispanics. But single female Black moms is way larger. When hear about welfare babies, they are talking about these female households. For the Latin American immigrants, they are brown and look like Muslims or whatever other negative connotation that someone comes up with. We as a species have a long way still to overcome some of the biases, because left to their own devices, people will group together which goes against the idea of getting involved in diversity. Now on this note, I am going to criticize the Democrats. They have been falling into this trap. They used to be about the working people, regardless of race, sex, religion and sexual orientation. But they become more focused on the race, sex, religion and sexual orientation. They are becoming those things that are not white and the Republicans are courting the whites. As a white male, it is becoming more difficult to persuade others to the views of the Democrats when they feel they are being attacked or made to think they are being attacked by the Left. Don’t add to the separation for political points. We need to be the educators and those with the most heard voices should be going onto the Right’s networks and spread the word of diversity and how it will help them.	1617733624	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315900	82189977	Jorge	USA	Dear NYT: This seems like more elite academic scapegoating of working class White folks, who feel threatened – quite rightly – by the destruction of their way of life. No, not from immigration or an influx of people of color, but from many other factors that damage their communities: corporate offshoring to China, bad schools, opioid addition, violence, poverty and a lack of hope… Why have immigrants and people of color moved into some counties – thus triggering declines in the percentage of non-White residents – and not others? Many new immigrants and people of color are also poor, and poor folks must live where they can afford to live. The argument that a covert conspiratorial “Great Replacement” ideology somehow drove the Capitol riot – it was not an “insurrection” under federal law – is silly, and cannot be demonstrated by demographics alone, especially when the author ignores so many other factors. There is no regression analysis that proves a conspiracy theory, even if you are trying to tag another group as the dangerous conspirators.	1617731041	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316456	56061454	NB	CA	The Republicans are all about race and gender. As long as whites are in control and women’s reproductive rights are suppressed so more white babies can be born, is all that matters. Of course, rich white men get to be the puppeteers. Climate change, economic development, retooling industry and infrastructure to enable the economy of the future, medical access for all are not relevant to these people because they are already rich and will continue to become richer.	1617732696	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316346	57082083	Neftaly	Long Island NY	A bunch of people who live on the internet who are afraid of change? Color me shocked.	1617732333	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316477	32575682	marriea	Chicago, Ill	Whites in truth have been able to maintain their ‘status’ by not observing or being able to appreciate the battle that others have to endure in our society because they constantly use their powers to keep others ‘in their place’. When the few who have learned to use the system to and for their advantage make it, whites get angry and wrongly accuse blacks and others of achieving something via illegal means or as they did in 1921 with the killing of people and burning down of a town like Greenwood in Oklahoma. Blacks aren’t trying to take anything from whites, we just want the same opportunities as whites as we pay taxes also. We too are American citizens thanks to your forebearers. Right now, because whites didn’t like the outcome of the 2020 election, lies were told and now state leaders are changing the rules so whites can have a voting advantage. Whereas the changes they fear will probably happen anyways in the future, the US can be better served by learning to know who you think your adversaries are and learn and build from what one has in common. It is our children and their future who whose life will be affected. Let them decide without any prompting from us. They might be able to correct what we haven’t.	1617732780	360	21	TRUE	FALSE
112316714	41843766	Michael H. Ebner	Lake Forest IL	Years ago I read a fine book entitled “Cholera Years” by Charles E. Rosenberg, a professor of the history of health/medicine. As I recall the outbreak began circa 1830 and it caused great consternation. Primitive efforts to activate public health strategies prompted public resistance. Much of the opposition had to do with religion as well as fear of science. Next, circa 1860, New York City sought to create a Board of Health. Again resistance, this time having to do with strong resistance to the municipal government to impose new strictures. Finally, circa 1880, a German medical researcher – Dr. Koch – discovered that the cholera germs were carried by water. This led to a movement – in Europe as well as the US – to water purification. Hence filtration plants were constructed. Outcome: the Cholera plague soon dissipated because of this finding after some fifty years. As I observe the public resistance to Covid19 it reminds me of the pronounced libertarian streak that is an ever present factor embedded in our political culture.	1617733560	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316063	59873124	Chuckus Amongus	Denver	Indeed, history may not repeat, but it does rhyme. The late Tony Horwitz wrote a book “Confederates in The Attic”, which started out as a documentary of Civil War re-enactors. He documents that, and much more. Attitudes in the South still have a dusty covering of reactions to the rise of minority rights in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Reformation. As far as whites feeling “disenfranchised”, perhaps first generation immigrants are just more motivated to “franchise” themselves. Don’t spend too much energy looking at what others who don’t look just like you have, get your stuff together and get enfranchised yourself.	1617731464	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315316	67917675	JP	San Diego	Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste” explains the gist of this article in great detail.	1617729192	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315705	147597539	El Conejo	Kansas City	The Republican party continues to step of the backs of the “poor white worker” instead of offering solutions for their economic problems. Its time the Republican Party to stop calling free medical care or free college socialism. Allowing their own base to suffer, in order to obtain their vote is a bit perverse.	1617730424	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315006	69805167	MJM	Newfoundland Canada	“…..mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites” When you are used to privilege, equality seems like oppression. I can’t find who or where this little idiom came from but as time ticks by, it becomes more and more prophetic - disappointedly so. I didn’t used to think things had gone this far. Obviously, they have.	1617728311	10	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315601	826792	Tom	Georgia	Over the recent past, demographers have consistently told us that the USA is headed for majority-minority status. They have been mostly ignored, except when politically advantageous for one of the donkeys or elephants. Mr. Pape’s research is confirmatory, but hardly earthshaking, considering the shadow of racism that hangs over white nationalist movements. Even if “the former guy” had run for president 20 years ago, the pattern of immigration was well on its way to becoming majority-minority status. I.E., there are more Kenyans than Norwegians coming to America. If the current trend of violent response by white people continues, Mr. Pape’s research should be a call to action for public officials of all persuasions to start/continue the project of adapting to a multi-racial democracy lest this great experiment devolve into a failing country.	1617730063	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315056	31468049	George NYC	NYC	Here’s a new fact to process. How do you justify to a white working class individual that was passed over for a promotion, that diversity should take precedence in the selection process? If you truly want equality then eliminate quotas and let’s all compete on a level playing field. Why have Asian, Indian, and first generation black Americans been so successful? The short answer is that to achieve something you have to work at it. There is no free lunch in life!!!	1617728464	6	4	FALSE	FALSE
112315672	63978557	Janice	Fancy free	Bring back the Fairness Doctrine Stop the onslaught of unverified hate and lies.	1617730316	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315859	95746223	Dr. Dan	Miami	The main driver of all in right wing behavior is the FEAR of loosing what you have even more than having lost something already. Like a job. Middle and upper middle whites have lots to lose and limited means to replace it. They fear the most so they sway right the most.	1617730953	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315532	41019409	Dennis Quick	Charleston, South Carolina	No surprise here. That’s how we got Trump in the first place.	1617729851	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315599	21142372	Old Ben	Chester County PA	“Awlllright, we’ll give some land to the {racial slurs} and the Indians. But we don’t want the Irish!!!” As Mel Brooks so deftly pointed out when Sheriff Bart refused to compromise with the Mayor in Blazing Saddles, the history of selective racism against immigrant groups is as old as our Republic (if we can keep it). Most often selective hatred targets the latest arrivals, but sometimes it is directed against old animosities against, for example, Catholics, Freemasons, Jews, or Muslims. Sometimes whole regions are targeted, such as Hispanics, Africans or East Asians. Or those of my ancestors who came from the green hills of Ireland. Still, it is remarkable that folks simmering in their own hate juices can decide that the thing to do about immigrants is smash the Capitol and hang the Vice President. But then, hatred is an irrational state of mind, isn’t it?	1617730061	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314926	50097185	Marta	NYC	This is exactly what the Times reported not long after Trump was elected. Trump voters were NOT animated by economic insecurity but rather a perceived loss in relative social status. So its interesting that this researcher “expected to find that rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 Great Recession.” (poor verb choice btw – they were not driven TO anything, their behavior is on them.) Did Pape – a professional researcher – not read this previous research? And why would the Times give this notion even the remotest credence in the lede? Does the reporter not read his own paper? It seems to me that many people/media outlets are still oddly reluctant to say the truth forthrightly – Trumpism is about racism. Its not just the far right – it applies to large %s of white American. That shouldn’t be remotely surprising to anyone at this point.	1617728132	9	2	FALSE	FALSE
112315040	10664125	Max	NYC	This is a very weak correlation argument. Click the Washington Post link. Some of the white population reductions are barely perceptible. This was a preordained conclusion in search of a cause. Presumably, there was not enough “white replacement” talk in the rioters’ online chatter, hence this silly population study.	1617728420	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315188	66210509	Sherry Wacker	Oakland	Poor white people felt privileged because they knew they were better off than any black family. This is the strategy behind first class seating, those in first class feel privileged because there is second class seating in the back. This is what poor white people are afraid of, that there will be no one worse off to make them feel better about themselves.	1617728833	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315170	17178177	Chris Wildman	The 49th State	The sad thing to me is that Trump and the GOP want voters to believe that THEY are looking out for working-class Americans, and they will protect white America from the invading hoards of immigrants. Trump, who seems to retain a leadership role in the GOP, has nothing in common with the middle class, has spent his life abusing them, and is simply an opportunist using what he sees as a failing on the part of the “elite” Democrats that have traditionally looked out for working-class Americans to claim the role of protector. The saddest thing of all is that the very folks who need the government’s help the most have now been conditioned to distrust all efforts on the part of Democrats to help them, preferring to listen to Trump, his sycophants in Congress, alt-right loonies, white supremacists, and a pig farmer in the Philippines.	1617728772	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315553	78820762	M Ford	USA	When I was growing up, I decided that the people that discuss the world in terms of skin color are the racists. Racists talk about people in terms of skin color and see skin color as a factor in life. Identity politics was considered racism before the Democrats mainstreamed it. Once they mainstreamed racism and racial stereotypes, we saw more racism and racial stereotypes.	1617729928	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315620	63574412	Benderman	South of Philly	People who have the financial means to travel to DC for far-right protests, like the one on Jan. 6 are obviously middle class. However, these protesters represent millions more Whites that are poorly educated as well as financially insecure. These poor minions probably comprise the bulk of the 74M that cast their ballots for Trump. The prescription for appealing to this population hasn’t changed in centuries - create a visceral fear of non-whites, instill a sense of impending financial doom to be blamed on immigrants, and most important, provoke conflict between the poor white populace and the poorer black & non-white people. Oh, and for good measure, push a dose of anti-emasculation hatred of gay & “Other” lifestyles.	1617730139	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315085	71106007	Candlewick	Ubiquitous Drive	There is nothing new to see here. The 1917 race riots in Illinois saw Black men massacred for having the “audacity” to come North for jobs and a more humane life. When the ideology of privilege and entitlement belonging to one group- is the premise of one’s core belief system; fear and irrationality take over. Then you can parade around in costumes and carry Bear repellent without excuse or shame.	1617728588	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316014	62479485	sleepyhead	Detroit	This is not news to black people. We have always seen in our personal lives how white people feel a constant need to feel “some kind of way” about us. I’ve had an atypical life (prep school, private college, etc.) for my race and gender and have had to ignore constant stupid questions (I talk different(ly), do I live in the ghetto, what is a ghetto, really?). It was insulting that white people had these baked-in preconceptions of who I was - I had to know everything about them and they only had to assume about me and it was all true. I was surprised when Obama got elected and was not surprised when the previous one was. I’ve found people to be much more racist than they admit - you just have to listen to hear how fearful they are and how unfounded their concepts. I date it back to the Haitian Revolution in 1791. After that, the tenor of slavery took a very dark and violent turn. We’ve never shaken that and it’s the unconscious background behind black criminalization. I see it every time a school child (a 5-year old!) is handcuffed for being a child. I’m sorry it was The Washington Post that published his research. That guarantees less publicity for the study and this needs to be chewed over constantly. Black people are only 13% of the national population, but in places where it’s relatively high, expect to see crazy discrimination, viz. Georgia. There is no creature as menacing as a frightened white person.	1617731355	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314961	41094238	Grace	NC	Is it really so hard to accept that racism is the driving force behind these folks? How many articles will there be where the person, after reviewing the data, discovers to their surprise that it wasn’t economic anxiety after all? There were clues here - Auschwitz t-shirts, confederate flags, mid-week trip to DC from far away.	1617728216	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315468	62626569	Bill	Seattle	There is an upside to this. Now that white people pose the most danger to our country, the push to end capital punishment is remarkably gaining traction: go figure!	1617729662	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315007	39851436	M E R	NYC/MA	As a white person I have had every advantage. I do not understand this resistance to the point of violence and even murder, in sharing with others in this great country. There is enough for all of us. People need to stop hoarding, stop being so greedy. It’s disgusting.	1617728312	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315871	48360907	Richard Janssen	Schleswig-Holstein	How terribly sad that Americans can’t bring themselves to think of each other as Americans rather than some hyphenated subcategory of humanity — and then to move on and learn to see themselves first and foremost as members of the human race.	1617730974	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314949	20877330	Justin	Omaha	It seems like a uniquely White American hang-up (and not just Republicans): that we cannot be truly happy unless there is some group of people being treated unfairly.	1617728193	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315207	52147740	george eliot	annapolis, md	I didn’t need this to tell me what I already knew. These people pass on their ignorance and bigotry from one generation to the next. All they’ve got are their guns, bibles, and victim hood.	1617728886	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315826	85196125	cathyO	Wa state	i have some of my own theories on this subject. In this area, protesters are likely to be white, unhappy about something (anything) , enough to to blame someone (anyone) for their position in life. Nevermind, it is their responsibility to be employed, making a living and finding and some kind of an education in order to be better employed, rather then blaming government, or all other races for their lot in life. When you do not have enough self confidence, you are going to rail at every one who does, seeing it is their fault for your condition. This generation has never learned how to hitch up their pants and get to work to make their lives and their country better, not by violence, guns and bitterness at everyone around. I am in my late 80’s and have been through a lot of what life can throw at you. Learned a little, learned a lot………just my thoughts………….	1617730867	0	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315733	63540596	misterdangerpants	arlington, mass	And this is surprising how?	1617730523	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315632	44845450	Jack Groves	Los Angeles	Ignorance. Lack of empathy for “others”. Little curiosity. = fear and rage.	1617730186	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315358	85993699	Pank	Camden, NJ	There is not enough support for our existing culture, which is under threat from immigrants who don’t assimilate and invading aliens who have no interest in our culture. It is time to make English the official national language and to require new citizens to speak it competently.	1617729318	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315493	67582467	Sameric	North Carolina	The real solution is not to demonize “losers.” It’s to guarantee them healthcare, education, and true economic security. Articles like these serve to divide us and make it more difficult to prevent future “insurrections.” Way to go NYT!	1617729728	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314894	67154721	New England native	Eastern Maine	It is pleasing to see this in the Times. Too many so-called political scientists and journalists know nothing about history and ethnic conflicts in other countries. Mr. Pape knows something about the Know Nothings who controlled the Massachusetts legislature and tarred and feathered a Catholic priest here in Hancock county Maine. He knows something about the rise of the KKK during the 1920s in places like Maine with almost no Black residents. As he says, it is about fear of displacement. Being forced to attend lectures about “white privilege” is probably not helpful.	1617728037	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314832	65722173	M ANDERSON	Philadelphia PA	We live in a world where, since time began, the White race is the nonpareil of all races; non-White races strive to be what the White race is. Now, the ‘advantages’ (I refuse to say privileges) are slowly fading—and some Whites (i.e. the rioters of January 6th) are realizing it—and have chosen not to accept it, hence using violence. Deal with it and get over it; people of color (primarily African Americans) have dealt with it for centuries. There’s no turning back.	1617727895	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315100	76287895	Blackcat66	NJ	God these people make me embarrassed to be white. I just don’t understand this fear.	1617728613	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314909	49527177	Sean	Ft Lee. N.J.	Too many treasonous trump supporting malcontents, antecedents one time designated not white enough, yesterday set upon today taking part;mirroring Nativist ethnophobia regarding true Yankee American.	1617728079	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315046	4530175	Richard	Long Island	Why am I not surprised?	1617728425	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315019	69677914	John	Stowe, PA	White supremacists know they are people who fundamentally have nothing to offer the world. They cling to the only thing they can pretend makes them “superior.”	1617728358	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315541	1748158	Di	California	One quibble–white MEN who feel they’re losing out. Most of these rabble rousers are men.	1617729884	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315785	2696231	GB	South Orange, NJ	The privileged think that equality feels like oppression because they fear that those who are “replacing” them cannot share their values. I use the word “cannot” very specifically. The belief that people of non-European (one hundred years ago, it was non-northern Europeans) descent could not share and promote their values is racial. One has to recall that the Nordics (German Nazis) thought of southern and eastern Europeans such as Iberians, Italians, and Slavs as being of inferior stock. At the bottom of the totem pole are African Americans who many whites believe would run things differently, despite Constitutional imperatives, were they in positions of power and influence. White supremacy requires that adherents think that the ideas of democracy and capitalism grew out of genetics rather than out of a contingently unique set of historical events. People of African descent COULDN’T POSSIBLY understand and perpetuate these great ideals because it is not in our genes. Therefore, we are not deserving of the largess of society; so much so that they will vote to deny themselves this largess if they would have to share it with the undeserving. This is the basis of white supremacy. The U.S. would be a social democratic nation today - with health care for all and with higher education for all - if black people were not here.	1617730718	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314983	100184235	Noneya	Cali	So many hit dogs yelping in these comments.	1617728255	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316036	63478494	Jim smith	California	Further confirming this white racist cult is in transition, and in crisis as it sees itself with the shoe on the other foot. I would imagine the new non-white majority will be a heck of a lot more accepting to these creeps than what they’ve received over the years.	1617731402	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314797	65236645	Andy	NYC	So the rioters were racists and white supremacists. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! Oh wait, that’s Trump’s base, and always has been. I could have told you this before the riot even happened.	1617727815	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315088	71300954	Scott R	Charlotte	All of these counties lose their most intelligent to cities. The result is a dumbed down population that gets dumber with every generation.	1617728589	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315863	47333365	Les	Bethesda	This ugly old nativism is based on denying our history. We have successfully integrated Germans, Irish, Italians, Greeks, Hungarians, I could go on. And what is the result? A richer society in every way for both the descendants of those nativists and the descendants of those ‘undesirable’ immigrants. Where are the nativist voices who were screaming about how Irish papists would destroy America? It was stupid then for the Irish and it is stupid now for the Latinx. When we welcome and integrate, things get better for everyone. When we allow the racists and xenophobes to fear-monger, things get worse for everyone - majority and minority. It is the nativists who want to destroy the American dream and they must be exposed for the ugliness of their views and the complete lack of validity of the nonsense they espouse.	1617730964	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315454	3117761	Frequent Flier	USA	This is the GQP game plan - make everything a zero sum game. They have a good job so you won’t. Scaring people witless is all they’ve got.	1617729636	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315327	23019448	Charlotte	Northampton MA	He did these people get so paranoid? Oh yeah: Fox, Q, Facebook, OAN….	1617729216	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314919	135450	Alan MacDonald	Wells, Maine	Mark Morgan on the faux-news ‘network’ NEWSMAX seemed impressive as former CBP Acting Director under Trump has found a new ‘padded nest’ at The Heritage Foundation and FAIR: In 2021, after Trump lost re-election, the Heritage Foundation hired Chad Wolf, Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan, all three of whom played a prominent role in the immigration policies of the Trump administration. It also hired former Vice President Mike Pence. Shortly thereafter, Pence published an op-ed on a Heritage Foundation website which made false claims of fraud in the 2020 election, as well as numerous false claims about For the People Act, a Democratic bill to expand voting rights. In addition to being a “visiting fellow” at The Heritage Foundation, Mark Morgan is concurrently serving as a “visiting fellow” at FAIR the Federation for American Immigration Reform which is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and was founded in 1979 by Michigan surgeon, eugenics supporter John Hamilton Tanton was an American ophthalmologist, white nationalist. Perhaps The Heritage Foundation was not aware of the bona fides of their “visiting scholar” also being a “visiting scholar” at F.A.I.R. — which is not really very fair, unless one is a fair skinned Nazi Racist: Both FAIR and Social Contract Press are designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In 2001, the SPLC included these groups, and Tanton, in a list of inter-connected network of anti-immigration groups. [Wiki]	1617728120	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315712	26976765	Hjs	At sea	Cue the trumpets! Unfurl the flags! The New York Times has caught on to what Hillary Clinton voters knew in 2016. ‘Economic insecurity’ was a catchphrase white voters used to excuse racism and misogyny in other white voters—and to enjoy their own share of it in private. Welcome aboard, NYT!	1617730437	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315836	105258489	James Rippy	Tennessee	You mean to tell me that there are racist and racism in counties were the demographics are beginning to shift? Ha….we don’t need a political science department to inform us of that. Anyone with a thimble full of brains already knows that these rednecks who stormed the U.S. Capitol are racist as all get out. So give me a break!?	1617730909	0	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316031	71786421	cocobeauvier	Pasadena ,Ca.	1.They’re still enraged about a black man, Barack Obama being the president. 2.“You can’t tell me what to do. You’re not the boss of me!” 3. Think back to be your third-grade playground…That’s America today.	1617731389	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315313	54628660	Okiegopher	OK	If you fear “losing out” to people who have been held down, held back, held in jail, held in choke holds literally and figuratively for the past 200 years (plus!), and you can’t muster the ability to keep your place and your pride without stomping on their necks…. YOU are a loser!	1617729183	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315341	65418550	Terence Yhip	Mississiauga Ontario	This fear of the US becoming less white and more brown is real and growing and the elites from both the GOP and DNC are worried “no hell”. They see the demographics, they see red-states like Georgia going Blue and they look to Texas and cringe n fear. It is an existential issue for the elites. Liberal democracy in the US is at risk as the elites try to preserve their turn or push back the tide. There are signs of this in new voting regulations.	1617729264	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315762	42009460	Hans Scholl	Boulder, Colorado	Tribal competition and tension is nothing new. Ethnic groups act to protect themselves. Some in the Democratic Party spend a great deal of effort attacking and alienating Caucasians and claiming everything we do is ‘racist’ (there is only one ‘race’, FYI), and they are doing a good job helping Republicans get elected. No ethnic group is without blood on its hands in its history, so why not concentrate on improving societal conditions for all (as the Biden Administration is doing) instead of alienating potential allies via renaming schools and telling us we are racist scum? Give it some thought.	1617730638	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316305	86754860	R	CA	Robert Pape’s preliminary findings regarding the fears of white people are consistent with current efforts by Republican led state legislatures to make it harder for U.S. citizens to vote, especially in Democratic leaning urban areas of red states were many non-white voters reside. All people are created equal. In recognition of this fact, Congress needs to enact voting rights legislation to ensure all U.S. citizens have equal access to ballots and ballot boxes, without anyone required to wait in a long line to vote.	1617732194	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112316157	63673953	Mask Of Comedy/Tragedy	Northeast	And so, as many of us thought as Trump rose the nomination process to power, it really is about race. And, also, as many of us thought, the real issues have to do with socio-economics. If this group is predominantly middle class, I am curious to see how their response will be to Biden’s policies. I yet again fear the policies will be interpreted as ‘handouts for those people’ instead of seen as a genuine attempt to help the middle and working class. Conservatives have been incredibly successful using race to deflect against class struggle. To our great loss as a nation.	1617731750	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315970	60758279	Sean	Portland, OR	It appears to be the same with the Yellow Vests in France. These are not the poor and down and out, who are variously splintered in their political sympathies–some favoring redistributionist and labor movements, some generally anti-establishment, some outright anti-social, and most spending their days just getting by with no time for political activity. Its those who have something (recall how many small business owners were among the Capitol attackers) who fear a loss of privilege, place in society, and maybe even income based on larger societal factors.	1617731229	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315144	84659488	dap	San Marino, CA	I don’t understand the statement: “They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.” I would have expected, at best, middle-class, less educated, on its way down to the lower classes. Unless we are talking about relentless urbanization, where very small towns, including their upper middle classes are disappearing. These must be the towns where agribusiness has displaced small scale farming and where small business has atrophied.	1617728707	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315125	75190681	MW	New Orleans, LA	These findings go along with a Trump-supporting friend who tells me that Trump represents the “voice of the forgotten people.” The feeling is so strong, my friend tells me, that this is why they accepted behavior from Trump they would never accept from any other president, regardless of party.	1617728677	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315584	139344572	Gene B	Kansas	This country has been a study of continuing evolution since its founding. We are all ongoing fuel for the quest of a more perfect union, guided by laws that have honored ever more inclusion. For those stuck in the past, attendance at second grade civics classes while incarcerated would do them no harm.	1617730015	12	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315323	46557709	Jamie Nichols	Santa Barbara	I have a highly educated, well-traveled, lifelong Republican friend who has demonstrated acts of compassion and decency and insists he’s not a racist or any other type of bigot. Yet his vehement anti-immigrant arguments (at least relative to those from south of the border and of Islamic faith) and willful blindness and false denials of the mistreatment of racial, ethnic and religious minorities by the white majority nowadays and throughout our nation’s history reflect a very real fear on his part. They also evidence his express or implicit belief in the Great Replacement theory that is the subject of this article. Great Replacement believers would be anathema to a co-founder of the Republican Party, Abe Lincoln. For he detested their ideological forbears, the Know Nothing Party. Of course the modern GOP has repudiated so much of what Lincoln stood and fought for that I can barely suppress a laugh whenever I hear someone claim that Republicans represent the “party of Lincoln.” The only part of Abe Lincoln today’s GOP represents is his earlier racist campaign rhetoric that was de rigueur for any candidate hoping to be elected to public office in Illinois in the 1840s and ’50s–certainly NOT his irrefutable reputation for honesty and decency. The fears of white America are rational only if the true facts are ignored and the false ones embraced. Lincoln knew that and so should white Americans today. But they won’t, because fear both sells and bestows political power.	1617729201	10	2	FALSE	FALSE
112315287	67758954	AG	USA	I am betting a lot of their anxiety stems from being overextended with debt to pay for their middle and upper middle class life style. That too goes back to colonial times (see Thomas Jefferson). Low interest rates, no collateral loans, tax avoidance and bankruptcy manipulation have allowed some to live lifestyles beyond their means for generations. Their biggest fear is the same as Trumps, the end of the scam.	1617729128	23	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315409	68452990	bob	ny	Perhaps widespread economic insecurity is related to our dog eat dog economic system and the absence of a decent safety net.	1617729493	16	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315702	97557	Peter Kaufman	Brooklyn	No Democrat has won a majority of the white vote since the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. “Economic anxiety” has always been code for the fear that minorities will have, what whites take for granted today - i.e., an advantage. When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.	1617730419	23	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315746	57058151	Michelle	EastBay,CA	I know some of these types of people from elementary school. We’ve kept in touch on social media. I don’t know any that actually went to DC, though. My former classmates who align with the insurrectionists are economically diverse. Some went to college and/or got into a lucrative trade, some did not. They are people who feel they are struggling and want more: not because they are destitute, but because they feel that minorities and immigrants ( documented and undocumented) get more help from the government, and they believe that is the reason for their perceived inadequacies and struggles. They are not interested in the actual facts. They simply need someone else to blame and are happy to swallow the divisive propaganda spewed by right wing media outlets 24/7/365.	1617730592	35	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314995	255978	bl	rochester	It has been evident by looking/listening at trump rallies that MAGA hats encoded for its warriors a deep sense of existential threat for the imminent loss of their privilege and social status. Making the country “great again” always had, and always will have, a racialist feature at its core. The article in question helps reinforce this intuition with a significant data analysis. That is helpful. What we manage to do about this is a different matter altogether since these anxieties repeatedly emerge to remind us on a regular basis of the very ugly and evil filled history that we refuse to teach both ourselves and, especially, our youth in general. A major consequence of this systemic ignorance, a function both of local control of schools + communal housing codes, is that tens of millions of whites are now utterly terrified of living in a multiracial society where their power, status, and influence are no longer unquestioned or unchallengeable. Such a notion is completely unacceptable and to be opposed by all means necessary. FX “news” et al bang this drum 24/7. They’ll have nothing to do with such political and social trends, and are exploiting all the non democratic features of our dysfunctional political system to delay, obstruct, and stymie any evolution towards a freer, more equitable society where every child has a genuine opportunity to develop and learn, and each individual can fully engage with civic society. But what can be done about it?	1617728295	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315428	79277453	Greg	Sacramento	Whatever the motivation, the violence from this group is most likely not going away for a number of years, if not longer, and will most likely flourish with a GOP return to power at a Federal level. An unhappy thought, but one to keep in mind in the years to come.	1617729563	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315641	60106334	Randy	Tampa	How many of the arrested had existing/prior law enforcement/military experience? Many I assume	1617730213	3	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315494	721090	PippaN	Cape	Of course. Its culture not economics, as we’ve been demonstrating for years now.	1617729730	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315374	76975529	Gail	NYC	What is most amazing about this article is that Robert Pape, a so-called expert, was surprised to find that the primary motivation for those arrested at the Capitol on Jan. 6 likely was fear of minorities and immigrants rather than lingering effects of the Great Recession. Of course that was the primary motivation (although to some extent the two motivations overlap because fear of immigrants and mandated preferences for minorities is partly economic rather than racist). Similarly, the focus on the arrested protestors being mainly middle-class and upper-middle-class is misleading because the article notes that most of those arrested came from places distant to Washington D.C. In effect, it usually requires money to take time off to travel and to pay for travel and overnight stays so it should not be surprising that financially better off people comprised the bulk of the arrested protesters. That, however, does not mean their sentiments are not shared by working class whites who feel equally threatened by immigrants and minority preferences. Democrats must learn to focus their language on helping those with economic and social needs without knee jerk references to minorities. Such minorities still would be the primary beneficiaries of those efforts, but the fearful whites referenced in the article likely would take far less offense from such generalized approaches as they should equally benefit needy whites.	1617729375	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315389	1916679	Rob Strobel	Indiana	“His research led to a remarkable discovery: Most of the bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations.” Vague. Does anyone know what the author means by ‘military occupations’?	1617729414	1	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314993	61373533	Sailorgirl	Florida	I am sorry. I do not empathize with white men who refuse to work hard to get ahead. Hard work has no color, gender or economic bounds. Nothing in this life has never come easy. You work, you save, you take advantage of opportunity. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes you have good luck. Sometimes bad luck. But this is America. Has been for 300 years. Most of us are color blind. Your work ethic. Your honesty, your integrity, fair play that is all that counts in my book. Right now I am doing major house renovations. My contractor is a women. Her subcontractors are Cuban and Guatemalan. They work hard, show up on time keep the job site clean. These traits are what has made America great.	1617728292	11	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315337	21452962	Donald	New York	There has been so many studies already explaiing that Trump supporters don’t suffer from economic anxiety. Its cultural anxiety or the feeling that their privileged position is in danger from the “others”. These must be like the one hundredth of such essays explaining this. Its getting boring.	1617729252	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315101	50084657	GS	Dallas, TX	Perceived loss of status is a real and considerable agent in motivating human behavior. (As it is in the animal kingdom.). Confederate Army foot-soldiers, for example, were not slave owners; they were fighting to keep Blacks inferior to them. People can be predictably motivated to violence, by manipulating this potent psychological force, fear of an attack on one’s status. The First Amendment does not forbid a law prohibiting one to yell “Fire” in a crowded theater. Because the predictable results are seriously harmful and the speech isn’t socially useful. Do First Amendment boundaries need re-examination in the context of loss of status demagoguery? Obviously, a much more difficult assignment than forbidding “Fire” without undermining freedom of speech. But, is unbridled pernicious speech in this area an unalterable given?	1617728616	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315254	66343705	Alf Alpha	Midwest	I’m a failed boomer, tried working hard and paying my taxes but forgot the rich parents part. Naturally I blame my shortfall on externals most bitter dark resentments it doesn’t occur to me to take up arms to overthrow the government. But, hey, I guess that’s just my slacker attitude.	1617729028	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313755	73695872	Rudran	California	The study findings are not a surprise. Throughout history, the entrenched fight change as Machiavelli observes in his book. The question really is how do we avoid or minimize the violence as this transition proceeds over the next two decades. Or is big upheaval not preventable? One important issue is the ability of all American citizens to vote freely and without burdensome restrictions. A second big challenge is equity as the government doles out benefits that form a growing part of our ‘compensation’ - health care, child care, schooling and student debt cancellation, elder care, minimum wages ($1000 a month?). Working folk will wonder why their taxes are supporting others kids or schooling or even housing and food!! Are Democrat Socialists like AOC buying votes with our tax $$$? Why are we allowing our southern border to be so porous? How can we afford to subsidize poor kids at $5000 a year if several hundred thousand kids seek to come in through Mexico each year? These are important issues where the country is split down the middle - in part because the demographics are changing.	1617725066	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314991	73572343	Kcirrot	Chicago, Illinois	How many more studies need to be done to show that what motivates Trump’s biggest supporters is racism? The economic anxiety argument has always been a way to excuse the ugly truth at the core of Trumpism and the modern conservative movement.	1617728285	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315321	79316228	just ben	Rosarito, Baja California, México	Yes, we are only in the beginning stages, but here are some tentative inferences… It is really all about race. It is about little else, except misogyny. It is not about jobs (note that these are upper- and middle-income people), it is not about “beliefs” or “policies” or “conservative ideology.” It is motivated strictly by hatred. No, it can’t be solved solely by law enforcement. We need to go upstream. We need to stop (if you like, censor) hate speech, above all electronic hate speech, to forestall riling up goons like this. We need to be more like Germany, which tries to stamp out this sort of thing, and stop citing the First Amendment to abet evil. Prosecuting Donald Trump for every crime he can possibly be charged with, federal, state, and local, is a moral imperative. He might be acquitted of some. Still, America must make an example of him.	1617729199	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315059	30253338	TomD	Ann Arbor, MI	This was already obvious to everyone on all sides. The Trump movement is a reactionary white nationalist response to immigration, diversity, and greater engagement with the world. Stop trying to work with them; defeat them. I’d start with HR1, the PRO Act, and criminal prosecution of Donald Trump for his numerous felonies.	1617728475	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315103	60025659	njglea	Seattle	The article says, “Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.” Yes, the uneducated whites who actually think they have a right to “lord” it over people of color and less economic worth. They are even willing to destroy OUR United States of America with their misplaced self-love and supposed “relgious” ideas. I’ve always been so grateful of living in OUR United States of America because we have such a wonderful opportunity to learn about people who aren’t like we whites. These democracy-destroyers, mostly white men, make me ashamed.	1617728616	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314958	21956008	lc	Bay Area	And as long as we keep focusing on race, “non-Hispanic whites” will feel this way. The town I grew up in is half the size it was in 1970. The people used to be Italian and middle class (factory job, house, car). Now they are “middle class” in various retail and service jobs for less than 40 hours/wk. I don’t think people who used to be ethnic and are now white ponder their status in this way. Their real wages have plummeted and our national obsession with race absent class and and economic analysis fuels this fire. NYT too.	1617728212	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313572	80370332	Frank	Colorado	The uneducated insecure white person in this country can be very dangerous. The thought of other kinds of people having what they already have is intolerable. Partly because they have a sense that the “goodies” (like voting rights, access to health care) are rightly theirs alone. Or, in the case of jobs, limited in number. Partly because they fear that competent people of color will expose the undeserving status of some white people For examples of this last item, you have only to look at Congress.	1617724593	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315628	51477244	Scott	Maui	So let’s walk through this…. All my (hypothetical) life as a white male I have benefited by society’s racism because it gave me an edge in finding the best jobs with the most pay. Civil rights and other reforms came along and now I am forced to compete and I no longer have those benefits. So while I am not a racist, I certainly benefited from a racist society, and now I am worse off than I was 30, 40 years ago. And I am angry. Trump comes along and taps into that anger. My point here is that while overt, bald-faced racism exists in America, I am not so sure that what America is going through now is purely a battle with racism. I think we are still reconciling our shift away from institutionalized racism and coming to terms with the changes that shift has caused. If we are to heal America I believe we have to listen to what is going on and not just write it off as a bunch of racists. Yes they behave in a racist fashion but the root cause is economics. Solve the latter and much of the former will be resolved also. But it won’t be resolved by just arresting the vocal leaders; it will remain a simmering problem within affected communities.	1617730172	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315677	88130976	Penelope	WA	I would like to think these displaced and displeased white males are victims but they are the same ones who benefited from the arbitrary barriers that have been in place to keep POC and women marginalized. They are also the ones who tout self-sufficiency and trickle down economics as the American way. Since they continue to vote for the social and moral agenda that blames everyone who don’t look like them, it’s hard for me to have much sympathy for their willful ignorance.	1617730333	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112315429	32588089	DM	Boston, MA	I had a friend tell me “it is hard to be a white person these days”. And he wonders why with this attitude our mutual Black friends have written him off. It may be more challenging to be white, but still about 1/10 the challenge of being a minority.	1617729566	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315069	67712639	Matt b	Hayward	Frankly, I’m ok with “a taco truck on every corner”, as long as they have some vegetarian options.	1617728511	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315466	19815576	Machiavelli	Firenze	The media is now featuring mostly Black entertainers, sports champions, singers, writers, commentators, etc. We see endless stories of companies, universities, schools, government needing more people of color ( which is true!) That will certainly drive up this feeling of whites “under siege” (which not true). 74 million + voted for Trump. They did not attack Congress but we need to know how THEY feel about the growth of minorities. We may be in a “” situation where this issue will plague us for many, many years. Fasten your seat belts.	1617729653	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315694	63052125	Paul C Hsieh	Walnut Creek, CA.	Immigrants are like the guests living in the homes of the White. The welcome attitude faded since the guests showed no signs of “going back where they came from”. In the meantime, immigrants fails to treat the hosting white as the “hosts” as they have elevated themselves to be now an occupants and demand all the rights. While we blame the violence on the “hosting white”, we also need to remind the “new comers” to show some respect toward the established white. Respect is the thing we all need.	1617730397	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313847	77235126	Wayne Cunningham	San Francisco	The mindless enthusiasm for Trump seemed mysterious to me for quite a while, until I realized that Trump was giving cover to his followers for racism. He could stand up and say he’s the least racist person in the world, while taking actions and saying other things that were clearly racist. His followers could get in line behind him as he expressed their racist feelings without coming out and saying it blatantly. Although many of those followers also said the quiet part out loud. Mr. Pape’s study certainly confirms that conclusion.	1617725343	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315491	19188844	Annie Stewart’s	MD	I’m not surprised it’s middle and upperclass white men committing acts of violence. Too many get away with flouting the law and skirting ethics. These guys probably know they can’t compete in a truly merit based economy as well. So, they are willing to hurt others to maintain their privilege.	1617729725	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315656	73539559	Lucy Cooke	California	“Mr. Pape, whose career had mostly been focused on international terrorism, used that approach after the Sept. 11 attacks when he created a database of suicide bombers from around the world. His research led to a remarkable discovery: Most of the bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations.” And the US response to terrorism has been more military occupations… and the NYT and the entire Establishment kept telling us “suckers” that those Muslim extremists hated us for our freedoms. No wonder so many, have so little trust in the government, the Establishment and its media. The obliviousness of the Democratic and Republican Establishment and their usual self interested stupidity has created the US immigration problem. Foreign born population in the US was 9.6 million in 1970, and 41.3 million in 2013, <a href=“https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends” target="_blank">https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends</a>/ That was a HUGE change in US demographics. Immigrants/refugees did take American jobs and lower wages, despite Democratic Party mythology to the contrary. I know Trump voters who intensely dislike the flood of illegal immigrants, but like and respect individual immigrants. Cheap labor made a lot of Democrats and Republicans wealthy, so illegal immigration was tolerated, while the middle class got poorer. Biden’s bold, Sanders inspired policies may calm the anger and lessen the despair.	1617730256	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112315324	90786102	JZ	Boston	I think it’s passed out of common knowledge these days, but Anbar/Sunni Awakening was a fairly important milestone in the GWOT and a great example of research -> successful policy deployed into a very complex demographic space and unstable environment. The DoD still waxes on about it and studies it, but I’d say for good reason. It was short lived due to failure in execution of the follow-on steps needed after it. But, within the scope of the policy’s impacts and factoring what logical next-steps could have been aside from what was chosen, it was very successful and odds are it would have been a cornerstone of future OIF success (of course: hindsight 20/20). It was a feat of distilling the impact and needs of a significantly complex demographic in a very violent environment into a workable policy with tactical effects. It took defining a very complex system, figuring out the levers, figuring out how to pull the right ones, and defining how to start pulling them and when. If Mr. Pape was behind it, I’m certainly inclined to listen to his views on Jan 6.	1617729205	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314745	75869937	Voxhumana	21234	When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.	1617727709	282	4	FALSE	FALSE
112314393	576058	MWR	NY	One can almost feel the satisfaction of progressives that white males, unless ivy educated, have had their day and now it’s payback time. This excellent analysis shows that the problem has been seen before and isn’t going away any time soon. Fear of downward mobility is a powerful motivator. The Republicans are stoking the anger created by that fear. The Democrats should not succumb to the progressives’ efforts to marginalize or worse, render irrelevant, white males who not only fear a “decline in their social status,” but are actually experiencing it. Many of these men were once reliable Democrat voters - laborers, union members, sons of the same - who aren’t “privileged” but instead worked hard and played by the rules that were once the ticket to middle-class comfort. With globalization, the loss of high-paying US manufacturing jobs and the rise of academic meritocracy, that compact has been broken. We can’t rely on the Republicans to address it productively - they’ll continue to exploit it - so it’s up to the Democrats to figure something out. Nobody else will do it, and the consequences will be grave.	1617726827	116	9	FALSE	FALSE
112314796	11424081	RestonD	Reston VA	Some of this is going to be a perception of attacks or vilification of rural, working-class whites by a (perceived or real) set of elites who focus on BIPOC who are part of the Democratic coalition. Any racist bias or attachment to privilege is also mixed with a more legitimate concern about an attack by a new urban-elite/minority coalition.	1617727813	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314803	76849973	John	Jersey	The very rich are the problem. And they are happy to have us divided by whatever identity we choose. Just as long as we fight each other, and never come for them.	1617727825	220	4	FALSE	FALSE
112314846	82813795	Trevor	Austin	The race to the bottom with identity politics and other divisive themes that both parties play with will exacerbate these feelings.	1617727919	23	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314820	85668380	JCAZ	Arizona	Again, another reason why we need to invest more money into education.	1617727863	35	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314847	62333452	Mike	Brooklyn	What happened at the Capitol was terrible and inexcusable. These people are in a large part reacting to a fear of being displaced - like many Americans, they’ve probably also seen that their lives have not improved over the past 20 or so years. Right wing politicians, who are enacting many of the policies that hold them down, play off of these fears and blame “the others.” That being said, the media has a role to play in this as well. The media incessantly harps on racial divides (not class divides which are probably more important) for clicks. There is also a glaring trend in media coverage, where if white people are referred to as a group, it’s almost without fail in a negative light. Trying doing that with any single other ethnic group and see what happens. Even in the paper of record, white people don’t even merit a capital W. I’m a lifelong NY Democrat, not a Fox News viewer, and it’s starting to get under even my skin.	1617727926	41	4	FALSE	FALSE
112314924	60184863	Thomas	Buffalo	Thanks for mentioning in the article that the KKK revival of the 1920s was in reaction to the arrival of Italian Americans. (You should also have noted the religious element, that the KKK was fundamentally anti Roman Catholic, essentially a Protestant extremist group, a point typically lost today or ignored/white washed). In fact, the KKK of the 1920s was far larger than it had been during Reconstruction. Also not well known, the largest mass lynching in American history was against Italian immigrants in Louisiana in 1896 13 were lynched by a mob.	1617728131	19	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314939	1848047	David	Buffalo	As this article points out, there’s a straight line between racist, xenophobic behaviors and the anti-democratic actions by the Capitol insurrectionists. The GOP vote suppression efforts only add fuel to the fire. We’re in for a long, bumpy ride. Hopefully we’re up to the challenge as a nation.	1617728169	21	2	FALSE	FALSE
112314785	59871106	Samcracker	ND	I have always said, it is not Trump who is a problem. I have no problem with Trump being Trump. The problem is your neighbor who has been stewing in his own ripe juices and waiting for a moment to burst out. Trump merely catalyzed this eruption of nastiness. The stuff had been brewing across America all along. The real Trump showed us the dark power of what’s lurking beneath. A smarter trump that can channel this power can destroy is the worst fear because it can cause destruction of this country - and half the world with it - from within.	1617727783	30	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314788	58542952	Shyamela	New York	Just read Caste by Isabel Wilkerson. Yep, she figured this out.	1617727798	21	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314934	28171778	JS	Austin	So the rioters believe that the rights of minorities and immigrants are crowding out their rights, the rights of white people in American politics and culture. We all have the same constitutional rights and the rioters’ failure to understand that is our original sin - it has appeared in different forms at different times throughout our history, but it has always been with us and remains a deplorable (yes, deplorable) fact of American life.	1617728147	29	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314756	70264110	AB	Brooklyn	I’m sorry whiteness is no longer makes up for lack of education, skills, and work ethic. But that’s how the world works nowadays.	1617727735	31	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314795	20300807	jrd	ny	So our own leaders lied (again), when they insisted that the 9/11 hijackers hated our freedoms. It was actually the reverse: they hated us for denying them the freedoms we enjoy. The difficulty now is, what educational or doctrinal program which is going to convince the Trump faithful that it doesn’t have a birthright to cultural dominance? And it likely doesn’t help that a fanatic vocal minority on the other side attributes all human evils to “cisgender” white men, with the help of a handful of “Karens”. Sound hopeful?	1617727812	6	2	FALSE	FALSE
112314799	139165824	Caesius	LINY	A large part of the fear of status loss…is these white people expect that black and brown people will treat them as poorly as they (whites) have been and wish to always treat black brown people. The fear of reciprocity is huge among these whites.	1617727821	30	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314848	64558030	Alfred Yul	Dubai	The main culprit here are right-wing media that have no compunction whatsoever about feeding a bunch of lies to their listeners day in and day out.	1617727927	27	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314864	72788204	Susie	Canada	Trump tried to roll back the clock to the America of 20-30 years ago, preserving white male privilege, along that of oil, coal and mining barons. Every policy, pronouncement and dog whistle were for this.	1617727971	18	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314842	60715264	citizen vox	san francisco	Interesting that the January 6 rally on the Capitol was unique in its violence and that it followed Trump’s call to arms: it will be wild, show strength. There were comments from the rioters that Trump sent us. But I’d like more information on those arrested January 6 before accepting the main argument of Pape’s work, that it is demographics/the Great Replacement that drove the insurrection. Could there be other factors that can be addressed? What is the economic status of those arrested? It’s not enough to say those arrested came from areas without high unemployment. Were those arrested economically secure? And what is meant by “middle class and upper middle class” as used in this piece? The usual key indicators of socioeconomic class are education, income and race. Are we to think the Capitol Insurrectionists were moderately and highly educated? Trump supporters are usually described as white, poorly educated, so are those arrested poorly educated but still doing well economically? Economic and educational inequality can and should be corrected. But if the Great Replacement is purely a matter of demographics, then just think of all the indigenous peoples the Europeans displaced in the past two hundred years and have a little empathy for them.	1617727910	147	18	TRUE	FALSE
112314545	78697659	Diane Steiner	Pennsylvania	Robert Pape, a former adviser to Barack Obama, has interjected race into the study. What about the education of the people he has studied, or is that not relevant? It seems the only card Democrats play, and I’m sure he’s one, is the race card, dividing the people of the United States more and more. Has he done a study on why Antifa held “peaceful” protests last summer by intimidating people, burning down businesses and police stations. Curious to know the demographics of those people. Let’s put race aside and look at what’s happening to people, socio-economically. There is actually more of a division among class distinction than race, and that’s where the government is going to run into problems.	1617727190	9	4	FALSE	FALSE
112314676	64882966	Harry Haff	Prescott. AZ	Stated more accurately: These whites mentioned in the article are attempting to deny others the rights they have long enjoyed. This can be seen in everything from voting rights to mortgage rates.	1617727537	265	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314606	33943375	MJ (Mountain Junky)	Chicago	Maybe it is just me, but while it is always nice to have hypothesis by hard data; this study strikes me a little akin to one confirming room temperature water is wet.	1617727369	11	2	FALSE	FALSE
112314674	76884276	Carol	Toronto	Surprising, said no one. Economic anxiety was always a scam. I’m not denying its existence, just it as the driving motivation for many in Trump’s rabid base. Hopefully, the media is now finished visiting small town diners to interview these “very fine” people to see what makes them tick. We know. We’ve always known.	1617727534	163	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314543	67634468	peterlbailey	NC	It is true that “reparations” and such things will have costs. And costs scare people. But what are the costs of not fixing things that are wrong in America? And what of the benefits of fixing them? Imagine a world where we trusted and even liked all those around us as we realize we all have so much more in common than the imagine differences some fear? I am white, but I want a better world for my children. We should imagine this world and then create it.	1617727187	38	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314627	65206908	Glen	Sac	Why would any of this related to the great recession? Responsibility of that clearly fell on the GOP by deregulating markets as well as their go to strategy of tax cuts. To me the answer to my Trumpers and January 6th has always been obvious. Irrational as well, but certainly obvious.	1617727429	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314566	72898082	Antslovehoney	Medford, MA	“The Capitol attack has historical echoes reaching back to before the Civil War.” This can be easily confirmed. From Frederick Douglass’ Narrative (1845): “[Slave overseer Austin Gore] argued that if one slave refused to be corrected, and escaped with his life, the other slaves would soon copy the example; the result of which would be, the freedom of the slaves, and the enslavement of the whites.” This zero-sum mentality has had many consequences in US history. It gave a veneer of “legitimacy” to the attack on the Capitol, not to mention legitimacy in dispatching any and all minorities threatening to take one’s place. As others have observed, we cannot take the risk of letting January 6 become a “founding myth” in the legitimacy of the 21st century American far right. All guilty parties must be prosecuted to the fullest extent.	1617727235	24	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314614	68228306	linda5	New England	Amazing how many of these men lived with there moms and were protected from real life.	1617727396	16	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314478	54911125	DavidDecaturga	Atlanta	The US Congress passed legislation after the Civil War that was intended to rehabilitate Southern government after it waged war on the non-slave States. It’s time for new Reconstruction laws to rehabilitate Trump supporters and evangelical cultists who use hatred of ‘others’ to justify their hegemony.	1617727045	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314616	28337523	Maria	Dallas, PA	I remember a similar analysis of Trump voters: they supported him not because of their economic circumstances, but because of their negativity towards minorities. Racism.	1617727399	24	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314548	60816456	ARNP	Des Moines, IA	I guess even the black and brown insurrectionists of Jan. 6 found what they thought were allies in the mob. They shared a hostility to immigrants (and women) they view as a threat to their jobs and social standing. None of them seems to realize that the biggest threat to most Americans’ well-being is the takeover of our government and economy by the 1%. Those at the top are doing better than they ever dreamed possible. Their lives don’t remotely resemble the rest of ours.	1617727194	26	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314435	63582179	sjs	Bridgeport, CT	Well, I’m white and I’m not concerned about being replaced.	1617726944	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314463	16534575	Julie Tea	vancouver	At the end of the article where it’s categorized as political violence not criminal violence I have to wonder if racism is getting some kind of hall pass. What exactly does that mean?	1617727011	8	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314470	49180543	Jim	Merion Station	If you accept the premise of this article, the problem is exacerbated by the press’s support of identity politics and use of phrases such as “minority majority.” Try to imagine a week where the NY Times does not write about what named racial, ethnic or religious groups “think” or “want” “or will do.” But then what would people read and be resentful and angry about?	1617727028	3	5	FALSE	FALSE
112313829	64672620	Chicago Guy	Chicago, Il	I thought they were simply a bunch of racist toy-soldier losers, motivated to violence, by a failed con-artist who, driven by a desire to avoid jail terms for his decades of backstabbing criminal activity, convinced them that if the will of the majority of voters in this country was followed - that their world, this country, and our society, would end overnight. And if it didn’t work out, which we all know it didn’t, they would all end up jail, while their “leader”, the one who started it all, sips Pina Colada’s, while getting a foot rub, next to the pool at his private golf resort down in sunny Florida - all on the tax payers dime. I hope they all keep that image in their minds as the make license plates for the next 10 years, while being confined in a 6 by 6 concrete cell. Yes. I hope they ALL remember what Donald Trump did for, and more importantly to them for the rest of their lives.	1617725268	55	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314499	71009561	Joel G	Upstate NY	Two comments on the article. First, the theory of the Great Replacement is not that minorities and immigrants are trying to replace white people. It is that Jewish elites are trying to replace European descendants in Europe and America (and elsewhere) with minorities and immigrants of color. That is why the marchers were shouting “Jews will not replace us.” This is white supremacy combined with antisemitism. The goal of the leaders of the right-wing extremist movement (which is global, not exclusively U.S.) is the creation of a white ethnostate. To get there they imagine creating a race war and expelling minorities. The other comment is that the article focuses too much on this as a U.S. problem, whereas it is really an international extremist movement. Many “ordinary” people are being drawn into it through a variety of means.	1617727098	28	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313822	82763855	Steve Griffith	Oakland, CA	Your old road is rapidly agin’ Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’ Bob Dylan	1617725249	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314200	37475504	John Doe	Johnstown	Classifying people by race was the big mistake in the first place. I blame anthropologists for all of this.	1617726257	8	3	FALSE	FALSE
112314201	36179796	Isle	Washington, DC	The irony of Mr. Pape’s study is that these folks are rebelling because of the lost of “non-Hispanics” but many Hispanics will claim that they are white. The rest of us see otherwise. Obviously, if Hispanics were, generally deemed white, then Pape’s study would demonstrate that these rioters see the influx of Hispanics into their communities as a white population increase. Trump picked up more Hispanics in 2020 than 2016, and alarmingly, some proudly align themselves with these rioters. For instance, the head of the Proud Boys is of Cuban descent. When will some of these Hispanics realize that these people do not want them to be part of the tribe?	1617726257	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314335	118403463	Ames Olsen	San Francisco	“…they will see a decline in their status in the future.” Let’s call it as it is… “status” = entitlement	1617726656	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314690	44499492	Steve	Seattle	These far right white extremists need to consider how the Native American must have felt after the “Great Replacement” by their ancestors from Europe. What goes around comes around.	1617727571	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314684	93299241	Bill-in- LA	Los Angeles	The writer left out one thing about the January 6th rioters . That they were just about all white and all trump supporter. No clash between right and left or white or black. This was a member’s only demonstration with no goal other than to riot and destroy the capital. The more video of the raid on the Capitol building the more respect I have for the capitol police officers. Without their restraint it would of been even more ugly.	1617727552	18	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314688	14195106	Vin	Nyc	I’ve always been struck by the irony of the white folks who afraid of being overtaken by nonwhite people - the fear stems because they feel they’ll be mistreated as a minority. How on earth would they develop such a fear? Hmmm…I wonder.	1617727562	38	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314666	64857609	Jonathan Sanders	New York City	In other words, we have a White problem in this country. Its not new. It’s been with the country since its founding. This is just its latest incarnation.	1617727515	17	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313997	65305059	Bob	Portland	There’s nothing new here. The Klan was formed after emancipation because of White fears about the Black majority in the South. That mindset has always driven racism in the US.	1617725731	12	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313787	31625748	MSPWEHO	West Hollywood, CA	Speaking as a 61 year old white man who grew up in a cloistered all-white suburb after his parents were 100 percent guilty of “white flight”–among those millions who fled the urban core city for fear of what black people were allegedly going to do to the neighborhood–I can say this with great authority: some white people are–if not entirely moronic or deplorable–pathetically underexposed to the real world. My mother used to tell me to lock the doors of the car if we so much as saw a black person driving in another car. When she was accused of being a racist by a friend who’d lived in multiple countries and had friends of many races, my mother scoffed and insisted: “I am not a racist.” When my mother shared this conversation with me, I said “you fled the city because you feared blacks were moving in, you’ve never interacted with a black person in your life and fear their mere existence, you’ve used the”n" word in the presence of your grandchildren…it may not have dawned on you that you are a racist, but you are the very definition of a racist." I would suspect that many of the rioters would insist that the racist label did not apply to them. Lack of enlightenment on a mass scale is what we are dealing with. Add to that, a vast population of poorly skilled and undereducated white folk who somewhere in their subconscious know they can’t compete with energetic, determined, impassioned immigrants.	1617725161	1615	34	TRUE	FALSE
112313524	58818572	DonnaMac	Belmont, MA	This is the demographic that is holding everyone in America hostage over their paranoid, gun fetish victimhood. Biden’s policies will help these unvaccinated miscreants. Let’s move forward without them, when Trump is indicted and bankrupted, they will shuffle towards the exit, or join us working towards a solution to the dumpster fire of the last four years.	1617724492	33	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314513	51183671	Andrew	Colorado Springs, CO	Dear “Great Replacement”ers: A brown person with the same level of training can do your job just as well as you can. So can a woman, in most cases. Jobs where women are naturally less represented are those requiring brute upper body strength, think pro football. Therefore, if your career field is not -50% female -17% Hispanic -13% African-America these groups are underrepresented in your career field. Got it? If the numbers are over 30% brown and over 50% female throughout all levels (entry level through upper management) of your chosen career field, you are suffering discrimination. If all the bosses are white and all the peons are brown, (or all the bosses men and all the peons women), you are not being discriminated against. If 80% of the bosses are brown and all the peons are white, you are being discriminated against. Learn some basic math and apply it to the real world, please.	1617727127	16	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314371	57823451	J	USA	I grew up in white bread America. Color me unsurprised. I don’t know why anyone needed to study this. A recent visit back to where I grew up confirmed that it was still same old, same old. No one dare say something overtly racist out loud, as they are “Christians” after all – but you hear a lot of code words, like “illegals” and the use of “they/them/the others not like us”. It’s almost like there’s a TV network that keeps pushing this, and countless AM radio talk hosts who spew it every day. Of course many of these people are of German, Italian, Irish, and Scottish descent, which somehow implies that everybody’s ethnic group has to go though a little of that good old “ethnic discrimination”, just like the time when grandpap got beaten with a shovel because he was an Irishman.	1617726769	27	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314487	78949093	Morgan	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	Fear of the level playing field. It also happened and happens to all women of all backgrounds. When you are used to deprivation and oppression, you expect less and work harder. These White guys have consistently ‘privileged’ themselves out the competition and they seem to keep wanting to continue to do so.	1617727067	26	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313934	79833516	Sparky Morrison	NewtownnPA	I live in Bucks County Pennsylvania which is an affluent mostly white suburb just north of Philadelphia. Unfortunately 6 bus loads of Trump supporters went down to Washington DC for all three post election rallies. They were organized and instigated by a local gym owner that ran a People for Trump PAC from Newtown, and and a former far-right congressional candidate from Doylestown. They were very loud with their “Stop the Steal” big lie. In fact even before the rallies to Washington DC, the Gym owner kept organizing these massive drive-by truck rallies. They were embolden. Even today driving around my country you see see the Trump flags and political signs up along with the “Don’t Thread on Me” and “the Thin Blue Line” flags. And unfortunately these are the same people running around unmasked and refusing to comply with the Covid safety measures from our Governor so we still have sustained Covid here.	1617725571	58	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314168	56683029	tinabess	Brooklyn, NY	I’m surprised that it is middle and upper-middle-class whites. Trump was all about the disenfranchised working-class whites. Aren’t they the ones who typically populated his rallies?	1617726172	127	20	TRUE	FALSE
112314226	40405621	Benjamin Teral	San Francisco, CA	Don’t dismiss those fears - that middle class whites will see a decline in their status in the future. That decline will be real, and they will experience it. The “whiteness” part of that statement may be misleading. As the longest-entrenched ethnic group in the middle class in America, those white people may be responding to the threat to the middle class generally. Some (mostly Republican) politicians may see an opportunity to fan the racial flames for their own political advantage, but that fact can’t be used to obscure the fact that economic inequality more generally, is the main threat to the American polity. Some Democratic politicians may be willing to join their Republican colleagues in downplaying that real economic pain, to fan the cultural and racial flames for their own political advantage. I’m pinning my hopes on Joe Biden and his administration, to keep focussed on the economic issues.	1617726330	65	2	FALSE	FALSE
112314357	27475539	Marie	BOSTON	It all rests on the binary thought that permeates conservative thinking. That is what opens the door. It requires an US or THEM approach. If someone else is suffering less, that must mean you are suffering more. If someone else succeeds, than you must be losing. If someone wins, another must lose. And when it’s not us, it must be feared. To them people are always either/or. Either white, or not. Either conservative, or not. Either rich, or not. Ether male, or not. There are no ranges, no continuums, no nuance, or complexities. When it is only one or the other then it must come down to US vs THEM. Every time.	1617726724	89	3	FALSE	FALSE
112314358	76849973	John	Jersey	People whose way of life is threatened get desperate when there is nothing and no one coming to the rescue. This is true no matter the race or gender, because we experience and navigate life as individuals, much more than as a demographic.	1617726732	6	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314387	68802622	Jeff Cosloy	Portland, OR	The inclusion of White Hispanics as a minority skews our perception of race. Many in that category lean conservative. Many in that cohort do not identify as a minority at all. Without this cohort it would be impossible to claim the quickly rising cohort of minorities vs anglos as a game-changer coming upon the latter fast and hard.	1617726815	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314349	6985115	Bucketomeat	The Zone	The right wing noise machine has had a 40 head start to nurture the grievances of nervous whites since the Fairness Doctrine was canceled during the Reagan administration. Fixing this quickly won’t happen by politely casting a ballot and will require an initiative on the scale of the Manhattan Project. Efficiently deprogramming 74 million people will require herding them into centralized facilities operated by specially trained personnel. Are we prepared to do what is necessary	1617726704	4	2	FALSE	FALSE
112314381	63220965	JR	CA	Other than a massive display of anger, what did these people hope to accomplish? That everyone they don’t like would pack up and move? That the country would return to the 1950s where each family had 1 job, 2 cars, and a job pumping gas paid enough to cover a small mortgage? For some of us those were good times (except for polio and nuclear war) but there aren’t enough guns in the world to bring them back.	1617726802	36	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313383	10085159	Karl W Albitz	Pittsburgh, Pa	I’ve always believed that people who hate blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities have had very few experiences with members of those minorities. If they had, they’d know that most minority members are truly good people. This is especially a problem for white police officers whose only experiences with minority members involves an arrest.	1617724099	21	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313343	49931599	Alison	Putnam NY	Hmmmm, protesting for inclusion vs. protesting for exclusion. That about sums it up.	1617723998	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313737	65413214	Gordon Schneemann	Vancouver, BC	Indeed, it appears some people need to be replaced.	1617725023	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313872	79807644	Myrasgrandotter	Puget Sound	Now Mr. Pape needs to tie his findings to fundamentalist white supremist churches to see a larger structure of the underpinnings for this evolving political violence. Social and cultural race supremacy tied to a contorted theology is a reconstruction of the pre-civil war south, spread to the entire nation.	1617725410	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314221	73539559	Lucy Cooke	California	“Mr. Pape, whose career had mostly been focused on international terrorism, used that approach after the Sept. 11 attacks when he created a database of suicide bombers from around the world. His research led to a remarkable discovery: Most of the bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations.” And the US response to terrorism has been more military occupations… and the NYT and the entire Establishment kept telling us “suckers” that those Muslim extremists hated us for our freedoms. No wonder, so many have so little trust in the government, the Establishment and its media. The obliviousness of the Democratic and Republican Establishment and their usual self interested stupidity has created the US immigration problem. Foreign born population in the US was 9.6 million in 1970, and 41.3 million in 2013, <a href=“https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends” target="_blank">https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends</a>/ That was a HUGE change in US demographics. Immigrants/refugees did take American jobs and lower wages, despite Democratic Party mythology to the contrary. I know Trump voters who intensely dislike the flood of illegal immigrants, but like and respect individual immigrants. Cheap labor made a lot of Democrats and Republicans wealthy, so illegal immigration was tolerated, while the middle class got poorer. Biden’s bold, Sanders inspired policies may calm the anger and lessen the despair.	1617726314	10	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314289	47074079	samuelclemons	New York	If Demographics are destiny and they feel left out the only remedy for them is either voter suppression or the path they’ve chosen: rioting and insurrection. They need re-education and not with right wing propaganda. That said, right wing hate groups have always espoused more violence than that of the left in this country. (with certain exceptions like the weathermen in the 1960’s).	1617726506	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313625	61284004	Kohl Reese	New York	Let’s now do a study of the people who rioted last summer … and did billions of dollars of property damage …	1617724730	13	3	FALSE	FALSE
112314047	10329685	vandalfan	north idaho	Yes, it is our middle and upper middle class, not the impoverished, that are threatened by newcomers, because they know in their hearts they do not have what it takes to compete. They are little schoolyard bullies enabled only by their Daddy’s money and connections. They are the country club, social climbing type who dream of a Mar A Largo lifestyle where there are the elite and all others are their obsequious servants. I cannot see Eric Trump or Hunter Biden struggling through community college and then running a local dry cleaner.	1617725856	5	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314230	11824949	Innocent Bystander	Highland Park, IL	White paranoia stoked by irresponsible rightwing media, which has also had an outsized role in promoting science-denial, looney conspiracy theories and all manner of trumpist fabrications. That, dear friends, is the problem in a nutshell.	1617726350	8	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313825	100084392	pk	Florida	America is changing culturally with mixed race couples, mixed race children, must-cultural neighborhoods and work places. When you hurt or kill one person of color or a different culture - you probably are hurting someone who is white who is a spouse, Grand Parent, brother or sister-n-law. co-worker or friend. Watching the Trump insurrectionist’s on Jan 6, was about as ugly and disgusting as it gets. It’s not an America most of us want. It’s important for Trump to be held accountable for insurrection, and the deaths that occurred. He incited the violence, why is he walking free? Will there ever be justice?	1617725258	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313860	65432155	Paul Nelson	St. Paul	We have toxic masculinity. Now we have toxic whiteness. It seems new but it isn’t new: Tulsa 1921 and all the similar race riots had the same elements – majority fear of minority achievement. “Take our country back.” “Make America great again.” White people (I’m one of them) need to relax; there is nothing to fear.	1617725376	10	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313431	91769972	Gregory Paul	Los Angeles	This is what happens when we use race rather than class as our primary analytical lens. Government economic policies, which in truth ARE based on class, because legally they must be, are rhetorically presented as race-based policies, and we’re surprised that poor white people think they’re being left out? Oh, and then liberal elites preach DOWN to the poor, saying “how dare you worry so much about your poverty - you may be poor, but you’re still privileged.” No one - White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - wants to be told that their race is the most important thing about them, particularly in the face of economic need that transcends race. We have over-corrected in our use of the racial lens, and must allow class to re-gain equal oxygen in the government and media rhetoric.	1617724236	507	54	TRUE	FALSE
112314239	66623409	Durham MD	South	Remember when the media tried to sell us on all the Trump support wasn’t racism, it was all economic anxiety? A reminder to never let yourself be gaslit. If you see it in front of you, it’s there.	1617726360	133	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314195	8848095	Observer	The Alleghenies	Another example of what Isabelle Wilkerson wrote about in “Caste.” Perceived, or feared, loss of status.	1617726243	19	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313593	1658894	Bill Camarda	Ramsey, NJ	Some white people, especially white males, think they can compete and thrive in a diverse world. Many others think they can’t. Obviously, immigration and race are the enormous elephants in the room. Everyone has a story about a roofer who can’t get work because undocumented migrants are doing those jobs. But there’s also the issue that soft skills traditionally associated with women are increasingly privileged in the modern economy. There’s the goal of brilliant AI researchers and billionaire investors to put 4,000,000+ professional drivers out of work by automating vehicles. There’s the fundamental insecurity that goes with knowing if you lose a job, you lose your healthcare. It all mixes together in one toxic sludge. What Trump supporters don’t see is: the people they vote for hold them in even greater contempt than the people they hate.	1617724641	1199	21	TRUE	FALSE
112313745	45162038	convince me	California	The United States is not justing “moving toward a minority majority” population. In some areas of the country it has already reached that proportion. I recently read that the population of Los Angeles is 73 percent nonwhite and California has been majority nonwhite for years. People opposed to this demographic change will just have to accept it. Insurrection cannot turn back the clock.	1617725043	29	5	FALSE	FALSE
112314125	90899334	K.M	California	Accepting difference involves use of the rational mind, and a desire to learn about a difference; our whole democracy was founded on the basis that we can learn to accept each others’ differences, learn from them and embrace them. We need to start in elementary school, assisting children to not just be placed in the vicinity of those who differ, but learn about difference, and learn that lives will be enriched rather than threatened by embracing friendships with those of varied backgrounds, colors and ideas. Without this education and exposure, the preference of many will remain prejudiced against those who are different.	1617726073	11	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313813	11685531	John Roosevelt	NYC	This is a bit of a stretch. We would have to interview each and every one of these people and do background checks and check social media and interview their family and friends and only then could we draw conclusions as to what motivated each of them.	1617725233	12	2	FALSE	FALSE
112313326	65502816	BJ	Michigan	Please provide data from the study. Sounds like correlation, which doesn’t prove causation. Peer reviewed?	1617723973	12	3	FALSE	FALSE
112313442	86346177	Clabe	NYC	the comments thus far have agreed with the author, but have not commented on the author’s suggestions that we need to find a solution. It’s easy to find blame but not easy to suggest our next steps, which the author claims won’t come from law enforcement.	1617724268	9	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313607	59321884	Pschlage	Santa Barbara, CA	Alan–Thank you for reporting this data. Before you can deal with an issue you need to know what is really the happening.	1617724687	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313712	64835244	Tom Nelson	Minneapolis, MN	Very concerning. How can a century of - at times - progressive change, expanded economic opportunity (for many NOT ALL), education and social mobility be discounted by this resurgent band of Know-Nothings?	1617724950	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314007	33224006	Barrld	Los Angeles, CA	The unanswered question in this study, one that may have beyond its primary focus, is what the insurrectionists hoped to actually gain with their attack on the Capitol. Amongst those indicted so far are a number of relatively educated people–did they truly believe that the rabble could actually overturn the election through violence against Congress? It’s hard to fathom how even the most passionate MAGAt expected anything other than arrest and prosecution when order was restored.	1617725767	17	4	FALSE	FALSE
112313457	22611171	SM	Pine Brook, NJ	Great article. I have no doubt that the election of Pres. Obama in 2008 and 2012 led to the election of Trump in 2016. The fear of the Great Replacement is very real with many people and they worry about it in both social and financial ways. So, in the end, what we have are two groups of whites: Those who accept that the country is changing and think it is for the better; and those who deny those changes and want to go back to the past where white people ruled the roost. This is not going to end well, especially as more Republicans rise up and stoke the fires.	1617724305	39	2	FALSE	FALSE
112313295	46314207	Nick	Brooklyn	It’s not surprising at all to see that fear is driving much of the decisions behind those who participated in the insurrection at the Capitol. Trump, and by extension the modern Republican Party and outlets like Fox News, have made it their standard operating procedure to tap into that fear to motivate voters, push their agenda, and of course - sell things. In my view, this slow but consistent boiling of white resentment towards minority or immigrant populations is largely driven by wealth inequality - poor whites could hold onto the notion that even though they were poor, at least they were white and that (in their minds) translated to some advantage in life. With that perceived advantage being reduced with rising immigrant populations they feel fear, anger and a loss of control over their future. Until we tackle income and wealth inequality in this nation, it will continue to drive racial and ethnic disparity. You cannot separate the two.	1617723875	27	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313376	83218918	FerCry’nTears	EVERYWHERE	While I think this article is interesting I do not find it to be ground breaking. I have always thought there is a large group of people who could never admit the Confederacy lost the Civil War. This is just more of the same	1617724090	25	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313643	78368695	James Fear	California	The loss of status that many white people feel has been very obvious since Trump used it to become President. The scariest part of the article is “we really still are at the beginning stages” The best solution is to bring back good paying jobs to these declining areas that can support a middle class lifestyle. Joe Biden knows this innately, but actually accomplishing it will be very challenging in a global economy.	1617724772	18	2	FALSE	FALSE
112313731	50650074	Gowan McAvity	White Plains	A mob usually consists of a small core of those that plan to incite other attendees of a mass rally into violent action. The dynamics that takes place where an otherwise non-violent citizen turns into an individual motivated to do immediate violence against perceived oppressors is complicated. It usually requires a single charismatic voice that unites them into concerted action at the proper moment. The spark, as it were, to get the mob moving and then the core violent planners may direct that anger against the target of choice or opportunity. In this case, the President provided the venue, the spark and the target of choice while the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers then fulfilled their fantasies of direct action against the politically victorious Democrats controlling the Congress. It will take more than the prosecution of the ring leaders and those that actually participated in the insurrection to deter other normally non-violent citizens from again resorting to violence as a legitimate political act. It will also take the delegitimization of the ultimate source of those violent intentions and organizations, Mr. Trump himself. While this will not be accomplished not in the courtroom, but in the court of public opinion, it will go a long way for the public to be convinced that he is not the savior of anything when he is exposed in court as a cheat and fraud, as well as the instigator in chief of the Insurrection of 2021. Let the hearings begin and the truth be told.	1617725015	3	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313757	90520604	BB8	Seattle	I came to the conclusion long ago that the “Browning of America” is what was behind many white people’s decision to vote for Trump. Most disturbing is that many of these people believe that there needs to be a concerted effort to “control” the ethnic makeup of America in what is often framed as “Culture Wars”. Fear of becoming a minority is strong amongst many white people, and maybe justifiably so when considering the way minorities have been treated in American history. But nobody gets to choose the color of America, because no matter what the majority ethnicity is - it will always remain America just the same.	1617725072	9	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314020	65256487	Kathy Lollock	Santa Rosa, CA	There are several reasons why I advocate for and support people of color: the first, of course, being it is moral and just, and the fact that a person’s skin color does not make him or her less worthy of dignity or less entitled to security, health, and sustainable livelihoods. The second is much more personal. My grandparents, both paternal and maternal, were among the thousands of mainly Southern Italian and Sicilian immigrants to America during the turn of the 20th Century. At that time, they were considered “people of color,” dirty, inhuman, and Papists to add fuel to the fire. They had a tough go of it, up until my generation of Baby Boomers. The final consideration is that I live in California, where many of our citizens are of Hispanic backgrounds, particularly Mexican. For heaven’s sake, these folks are not trying to “steal” a way of life from us “Whites.” On the contrary, they contribute to our society in countless ways, are our neighbors, acquaintances, friends. If only other cities and towns could have the opportunity that we have here. How different life would and could be.	1617725786	63	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313591	19744678	Nunzio Russo	Sciacca, Italy	In other words being white equals automatic opportunity. What happened to the mantra of personal responsibility espoused by the Republican Party. If immigrants can manage to achieve the American dream with limited resources, I’m sure white Americans no matter their economic situation can achieve the same.	1617724640	19	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313665	17720779	Gorg	California	Why are the populations of those communities declining though? I’d like to actually see some of these numbers, instead of an opinion piece about an opinion piece, but what does the economic mix look like, crime rates, community decay, opiate addictions, ect? Journalism used to ask the real questions, now they look for surface reason to paint people they disagree with as morally abhorrent and thus in need of exclusion.	1617724834	3	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313823	60741395	Djt	Norcal	There are small parts of the economy where merit can be measured in a way that removes the bias of the measuring stick. But the vast, vast majority of the jobs in the country are based on hiring people from within the smallest circle of concern that you can get away with. If whites run the local government, schools, businesses, whites can be sure that when their needs and the needs of non-whites are equal or conflict, skin color implied kinship ties will advantage whites. And this is clearly the case. Whites worry that when those schools and government and businesses are run by non-whites, those people will put their fingers on the scale to advantage their families, friends, and yes, national kinship ties. This isn’t unique to whites. It is a characteristic of having power. As a person that rolls in the merit class, I’m not concerned for myself really. These people are concerned for themselves and their kin. I am somewhat concerned for my kids since they don’t seem destined to inhabit the merit class. They will be depending on kinship, or implied kinship.	1617725251	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313362	1562254	John Hays	Washington, DC	It’s not too surprising, but it’s nice to get the validation in a study, thanks.	1617724053	7	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313555	38816970	Diogenes	Belmont MA	There are other variables that should also be taken into account: the lower economic growth rate over the past 25 years; widening income inequality; the inability of white working class people to secure middle-class jobs and purchase homes in middle-class neighborhoods.	1617724554	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313351	788867	Occupy Government	Oakland	“If all of this is really rooted in the politics of social change, then we have to realize that it’s not going to be solved — or solved alone — by law enforcement agencies.” But that’s a good place to start. Whatever the societal implications of the racial divide, we can’t tolerate violence or voter intimidation.	1617724031	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313774	53464430	Phillip	Canada	The irony of “conservatives” is they are suppose to be for capitalism and free-markets, so they should welcome the competition within labor markets, competition for power and a meritocracy. They should welcome opening the borders to created the largest and most competitive labor markets and everyone gets a chance to compete. However, the reality is they are not for competition or a meritocracy within society at all, particularly if you are non-white. It is all about race and always has been. White males are losing their power and they are fighting back in the only way they know: violence or fixing the vote.	1617725129	12	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313925	67298210	Jeff S.	Huntington Woods, MI	Fellow white folks…it’s not pie. Non-white people finally getting (closer to) the rights we take for granted doesn’t take anything away from you, kind of like when we legalised marriage for all. In fact, we all do better, lead happier lives, when we all do well. That “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” we proclaim underpins our country is stronger the more of us can pursue those things equally.	1617725547	15	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313993	48530252	Kent	NC	It would be interesting to also look at the Representatives for these countries and examine their positions on issues affecting minorities and rhetoric on the election. My guess is that they do little to dampen trump’s racist views.	1617725722	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314134	54342779	Joe S.	California	I’m a white guy and I simply don’t understand what motivates white racism, or what it is these folks feel they are “losing out” on. Economic power? In America today, wealth is hyper-concentrated in the hands of very few — the 0.1 percenters. Race has very little to do with it: if you’re not mega-rich, you’re not mega-rich. But as far as the small slice of the pie that normal people share goes, we all do better when the economy moves forward, and right now the Democrats are the only ones with an economic plan that moves us all forward. “Cultural issues?” Personally I’ve never felt threatened by living in a mixed, diverse society. It just means there are a wider variety of people and experiences to learn from and enjoy. And since we live in a secular society with a robust constitutional process, it’s not like paranoid fantasies of sharia law, etc can actually occur. Do they just hate people because if the color of their skin or the sound of their language(s)? That doesn’t make sense either. No one is taking anything away from you: all they want is to take part in the same great nation, a society that succeeds when it expands, but stagnates when we think small. United we stand, divided we fall.	1617726082	13	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313303	77699784	Tommy	Texas	This explains the entire Trump movement and the modern GOP. It is all about preventing demographic and cultural change, motivated by racism, nativism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. The issues that animate the GOP base the most are immigration, abortion, and other culture war issues. There’s a reason Biden has had a successful start to his term- he doesn’t rile up Trump supporters like President Obama, AOC, or other people of color do.	1617723892	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313316	5734979	Marc	Boston	A heavily armed police presence in these towns will be needed. Make sure the locals are harassed for minor infractions like j-walking and broken taillights. Hefty fines will teach them about good government. Cut back on services like schools, health care, clean water and sewage treatment. Open landfills and incinerators are well located here. And make sure there are obstacles to voting. It’s the American Way!	1617723949	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313459	87127640	DoctorRPP	Florida	Our marketing department is looking for someone with Mr. Pape’s skills to teach our self-promotion class……these two paragraphs could fit in the slang dictionary for “a stretch:” "Mr. Pape, whose career had mostly been focused on international terrorism, used that approach after the Sept. 11 attacks when he created a database of suicide bombers from around the world. His research led to a remarkable discovery: Most of the bombers were secular, not religious, and had killed themselves not out of zealotry, but rather in response to military occupations. American officials eventually used the findings to persuade some Sunnis in Iraq to break with their religious allies and join the United States in a nationalist movement known as the Anbar Awakening."	1617724307	1	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313687	145809747	Lin	Philadelphia	Not surprising since they have been screaming about “political correctness “ and liberals for so long. Illegal immigration is a problem that will trouble whatever party is in charge. The reasons for wanting do come here no matter how dangerous are too complex. Trump’s solution was crazy and showed incompetency. Good luck to Biden. At least he understands the problems and the law.	1617724896	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313647	40942713	Bob	Virginia	A little demographic research will show that whites represented almost 60 percent of the US population in 2020. As the percentage declines to, say, 49 percent in coming decades, whites will still be by far the largest group in our multi-ethnic multi-racial nation. We are a nation of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, European-Americans, and others, not to mention our offspring blending together. America could be a model for the world in all sorts of people getting along together. Why not try for that?	1617724782	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314126	76119996	CC	San Francisco	American culture has taught most of us that life is a zero-sum game, and politicians have exploited this for ages. I am reminded of this “cautionary tale” I heard: A rich man, a poor man, and an immigrant are sitting at a table. The rich man has 99 cookies, the poor man has 1, and the immigrant has 0. The rich man says to the poor man: “Hey, just so you know – watch out for that immigrant. He’s going to try and take your cookie.”	1617726075	35	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313394	75215278	Alan	Columbus OH	Can this really be separated from economic decay? College-educated or otherwise advantaged White people tend to move to a few wealthier regions and face fewer obstacles to staying there, leaving behind many place with a disproportionate mix of everyone else.	1617724132	5	3	FALSE	FALSE
112313604	1506197	music observer	nj	This is big news? That the Trump led GOP is about , to paraphrase an old rap song’s title “Fear of a non white US”. The GOP’s base, that is so fervently pro trump, with their talk of ‘taking back OUR country" and talking about, not jobs or healthcare or wanting better education for their kids, is all about “saving OUR country”, and it doesn’t take a genius to ask the question, ’From what?“. Every code word the GOP and its base uses, talking about”radical liberals" and “radical socialism”, how ’religious liberty", and all the rest you hear every day on Fox News, is basically a paen to a past where the country wasn’t diverse, wasn’t so secular, wasn’t so, well, dominated by ’them’ (lgbt people, blacks, hispanics, asians, feminists, etc). They look around and realize that Idaho and Montana and Iowa and all the bastions of small town white America in other places, like the south, don’t represent the country, that whatever their beliefs are, their feelings on things, they don’t represent most of the country, and it scares them. The GOP has been playing on this fear for decades, rather than build a big tent, they have made a party based around white, working class fear, that they are now the real minority. They aren’t even looking back to the 1950’s, they are looking back to the 1850’s when white, rural america was the country. One mistake liberals make is assuming this is about economics, opiod addiction, it isn’t, it is losing ‘their’ country, where they rule.	1617724677	5	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313675	66842229	Jason	La Jolla, ca	Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the U.S” should be required reading in all schools. Racism is ingrained in our society. The powers that be have always encouraged it as a means to keep the poor whites thinking that they are at least better than people of color. God forbid if poor folks of all colors found common cause. The gig would be up. There are many examples of of whites demanding that their black fellow humans be treated equally. The whites in power put kibosh on that ASAP.	1617724869	6	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313714	7946263	Son Of Liberty	nyc	What Democrats refuses to admit is that a significant part of the American public were not taught the values inherent in the United States constitution when they were growing up. The insurrectionists only turned to a fascism because they didn’t learn the devastation that men like to Donald Trump caused in the 20th Century. If it wasn’t for the pandemic Donald Trump would still be our president.	1617724956	4	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313744	157270907	Avi Das	Beaumont California	This should be no surprise. As someone who lives in a small town and as the white population decreases and more people of color move in the amount of extremists has grown. There has been a rise in people showing off confederate imagery, white nationalist propaganda, and a rise in homophobia. With this in mind I think this going to happen more in small towns like mine. The sad thing is that I personally think nothing can be done about it at a certain point. These people eventually become lost and can’t get any help.	1617725042	3	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313752	53830972	The Miln	NorCal	Reading this is like reading one of those items where somebody has conducted scientific research to discover that Monday is people’s least favorite day of the week. Well, yeah. Didn’t everyone already know that? It’s been pretty obvious for at least four years that white nationalism is what’s driving the Trump phenomenon. And if white nationalism isn’t white supremacy, it’s the closest thing to it. This is why Trump supporters can’t be persuaded by logical arguments or factual evidence. It’s why, despite his disgusting personal behavior, gross incompetence, and flagrant corruption, his supporters never waver. It’s not rational. It’s tribal. They see themselves, and Trump, as defending a racial hierarchy that puts white Christians at the top of the totem pole and sees all others as second class citizens, at best. Didn’t we already know this?	1617725059	17	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313867	76795622	Ben	Oregon	Simply put, these folks have a fear of people who do not look like them. Let’s be real here: This is a demographic analysis that describes where racist people most likely originate. Yes, racism is a political motivation. So let’s not beat around the bush here…and call it political racism. This analysis is weakened when it’s not using the correct term. The conversation needs to be had at all levels, from the kitchen table to the halls of justice, explaining that this fear is truly born out of racism, intentional and overt or not intentional and ignorant. It’s an ugly term and nobody wants to throw it around in all-white circles, but this is the work that needs to be done.	1617725393	2	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314229	79185470	Kris N	Maryland	It’s all about economic security and political power. Used to be that simply belonging to a certain tribe got you both. US economy was growing and had few competitors after WW2 and ‘offered’ that environment. But things have changed rapidly since the ’70s when other societies got on the capitalism-consumerism gig. And things became competitive..and no more was just belonging to a tribe a ticket to economic security and political power. Here we are…. Provide economic security or at least a hope for that, then we’ll have solved half the problem. The other half - driven by cultural and heritage feelings, will have to start at dinner tables of the tribe, and will take a couple of generations to form a more perfect union.	1617726339	4	1	FALSE	FALSE
112314119	82993564	Curtis Hinsley	Sedona, AZ	Nothing like confirming the obvious.	1617726051	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314078	67780436	Dan	Lafayette	“(The insurrectionists) are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.” Hmmm… perhaps these poor souls are just too shiftless or complacent to make it alongside competent non whites. It is hardly a good rationale for them to commit treason.	1617725926	23	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313967	63480519	Jaybird	Delco	File this one under that old chestnut, “No kiddin, Sherlock.”	1617725659	18	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314131	65673264	Tara	MI	I had to do a double-take of the headlines. You could have knocked me over with a feather. It was like reading this: “German-speakers in Czechoslovakia most likely to support Annexation by Reich”.	1617726081	16	0	FALSE	FALSE
112314092	80693095	A	Richmond	I live in a rural area with little to no diversity. Anyone diverse would be nuts to move here. Another thing these people are afraid of - being usurped by ethnic minorities who will work 20 times harder than the white guys.	1617725967	300	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313413	7322295	Justin	Seattle	So the president who said that Mexico was sending rapists, that saw good people on both sides of a Neo-Nazi rally, and that banned Muslims from coming into the country was appealing to racists? And the guy with the Camp Auschwitz t-shirt was a racist? Who ’da thunk it? The revelation for me is that these were largely middle and upper middle class people. The most coddled and protected people on the planet. Their actions demonstrate that they have been privileged, that they know they have had privilege, and that they’re afraid of life without that privilege. They don’t want to live like the rest of us.	1617724185	160	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313978	83071056	Mike	Tennessee.	White flight turns into white riots. Tale as old as colonialism.	1617725685	47	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313723	76059416	John Jones	California	The racism and prejudice has always been just under the surface. Trump made it acceptable and mainstream. The thoughts about race used to be discussed in living rooms and among close knit social groups. Trump and social media changed that, you can now find like minded people as close as your keyboard…	1617724993	174	3	FALSE	FALSE
112313292	69043885	Therese	New Rochelle, NY	Just looking at crowds at the Trump rallies, it was quite obvious. Some of my white brethren think that anytime a non-white person makes political, social or economic gains, they are going to somehow lose something, I guess power. It’s not the 1950’s anymore, you have to change with the times.	1617723870	291	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313390	439379	DGC_NH	NH	Guilt. The fear that others will mistreat you as you’ve mistreated them.	1617724110	437	2	FALSE	FALSE
112313669	88569174	Scott	Ohio	The most important fact the Republicans hide from this group of scared white people: As more people become full participants in the economy, the economy grows bigger for everyone. No one is going to steal your piece of the pie, and most likely your piece will get bigger.	1617724843	167	4	FALSE	FALSE
112313695	63607957	re	Seattle	Add this to the reporting that many of the insurrectionists had experienced financial difficulties.	1617724917	35	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313748	13729439	Marc Joseph	KC MO	His research was published in the Post, and not a scholarly journal?	1617725048	6	4	FALSE	FALSE
112313497	70567451	Willo330	Silver Spring, MD	This is simply American history repeating itself around white fear of losing “control” and exploiting racists policies again and again. It’s the fear of the “them.”	1617724413	24	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313510	64672620	Chicago Guy	Chicago, Il	“Fears of White People Losing Out”? There is another, less polite, but much more accurate,and far uglier term for this opinion.	1617724447	21	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313569	57556769	Taz	NYC	Reagan’s repeal of the Fairness Doctrine is to a great degree responsible for this fix. Disaffected whites obtain all their information from the conservative echo chamber, and repeatedly hear only one false, auto-reinforcing side of the narrative: American life is a zero-sum game; if minorities win, whites lose.	1617724589	253	1	FALSE	FALSE
112313589	54357050	Joe B.	Center City	If 1000 people entered the Capitol illegally, why have only 370 been charged?	1617724634	206	5	FALSE	FALSE
112313680	15800631	Kevin C.	Oregon	You bet they’re running scared. Afraid that the formerly oppressed ‘other’ citizens might take from the self annointed ‘real’ Americans what was kept from them via discrimination for so long.	1617724878	18	4	FALSE	FALSE
112313793	31397801	Georg Witke	Orlando, FL	Why is Trump not tried for Treason?	1617725178	370	2	FALSE	FALSE
112313336	20360532	South Slo	Brooklyn	Racism is the glue that binds Republicans together.	1617723985	673	2	FALSE	FALSE
112313553	108085015	Sk	Detroit	It takes a fool to pick a fight against reality. Reality being changing demographics.	1617724552	17	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313568	48376006	H. Clark	Long Island, NY	If these insurrectionists aren’t happy living in a multicultural, heterogeneous society, they are free to leave this country. Getting dressed up in mommy’s fur stole and parading around the Capitol in a Fred Flintstone outfit is a pretty lame stunt. Get lost!	1617724587	198	4	FALSE	FALSE
112313780	77636898	Z in TX	Austin, TX	But remember, folks — it’s not about white supremacy.	1617725149	14	0	FALSE	FALSE
112313786	63877091	Locho	New York	Perhaps the actual study addresses this question, but I don’t see any evidence mentioned in this article beyond correlation: Certain people who did X live in counties experiencing Y, thus people did X because of Y. That logic seems very solid when it confirms our preconceptions. The hypothesis might well be true, but we still need more evidence.	1617725160	16	3	FALSE	FALSE
112313197	59229961	Lisa	NYC	No kidding. Next ‘news story’?	1617723645	72	3	FALSE	FALSE
112313146	20857878	HistoryRhymes	NJ	Not surprising at all. It is the GOP most powerful message! Why do you think Trump got elected in the wake of Obama?	1617723513	646	4	FALSE	FALSE