NYT: Affirmative Action For Conservatives?

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@Imurhucklebury

Read the Gallup poll you cited. That 38% you quote for people who believe in creationism includes all who believe God has any role at all in creation, including those that believe in evolution after God “got the ball rolling.”

http://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-humans-new-low.aspx says right at the beginning:

@Gallup

The percentage of U.S. adults who believe that God created humans in their present form at some time within the last 10,000 years or so – the strict creationist view – has reached a new low. Thirty-eight percent of U.S. adults now accept creationism, while 57% believe in some form of evolution – either God-guided or not – saying man developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.

From that and the graph, it is 38% creation, 38% guided evolution, 19% unguided evolution.

@Imurhucklebury

you then go on to quote a “prominent conservative” as being comfortable with Nazis. I guess all of us conservatives are Nazis, correct? Are you comfortable being a member of Antifa? Are all your friends members of Antifa?

The difference is that prominent conservatives who praise very fine people allied with Nazis and make textbook definitions of racist comments and others who are comfortable with such textbook definitions of racist comments are elected conservative leaders who have high approval rates among conservatives, not fringey types with insignificant power or support like those black mask people you like to incorrectly paint others with. (Note that it does not mean that conservative = Nazi, but that conservatives appear to be comfortable with various kinds of bigotry, even if they less extreme than Nazis.)