Pew Research has a new poll out that's
incredibly depressing and it highlights a gigantic blind spot
in the psyche of the American people they assed
about 1,500 people in the US
what traits are positives and negatives
in supporting a candidate for political office so the good news
is that the bigotry for certain things
is slowly but surely going away so for example
only nine percent of people say that they're less likely to vote for a woman
okay I mean is still you know still sucks that it even nine percent
but not a terrible number specially when you consider the fact that what
forty percent the country thirty percent of the country there
fuckin Looney Tunes also nine percent say they're less likely to vote for a
Hispanic
only 22 percent say they're less likely to vote for op
pot smoker match really encouraging only 22 percent of people say if you smoke
weed I'm not really I consider you
that means the overwhelming majority are like em maybe depends on the person who
cares if they smoke weed
but 27 percent say they're less likely to vote for a gay person
it still its own in uncomfortably high number but still
keep it in perspective that a up a large majority say it doesn't really matter
I'd go for a gay person depending on what their policies are
36 percent say they're less likely to fall for someone in their seventies
35 percent say they're less likely to vote for someone
who cheated on their spouse at really interesting a majority of people still
say
even if you cheated if your policies are good fuck it I'll vote for you no
problem
now here is the giant folk
you to logic you ready for this 53 percent of Americans
say they're less likely to vote for an
atheist so you can be a
seventy-year-old pot-smoking lesbian that cheated on your spouse
and you have a better shot then an ABS
wonderful america's
just fantastic in it I don't get it man
I really don't get it you know now look the
flip side of the coin on this issue is that I think it's kinda like
Barack Obama situation and what I mean by that is dearest
pretty strong percentage people it said yeah I would I would be comfortable with
the black president but then
when this so called a right one came along they're like I like that back I
though he seems cool
soul and a lot of people who were I guess you could describe them as
moderate bigots
there yeah I rather him than that dying really
fuckin old guy in the crazy person who might become president Sarah Palin so
I think it's its gonna change overtime
and this might be a little overstated the number in the poll but
either way you slice it erred i sed its
fuckin terrible man 53 percent if you are that stupid
and you know it stems from it stems from the idea that
atheists or agnostics or secular people are missing something
it's like okay I get it you're miserable
like you're miserable and you haven't evolved it to this a level
of seeing the light that this world is in all there is in that there's a God in
god loves you and ya ya ya to right
and that's how they view it as condescending you know when I've seen in
my family too
where they look at you like all you don't believe what happened like it's
one of those things like
what went wrong and my response is always the Louisiana now
it has nothing to do with the feelings or emotionalism
it has to do with logic and reason and rationality and thinking about things
and reading about all the different religions reading what they believe
taking them at their word that they believe what they say they believe in
that they're in favor what they say they're in favor of
and going alright no love those fucking things make
any sense so count me in the unaffiliated category
okay count me in the I will use this thing in between my ears for as long as
I tend to try to figure out what's going on in this world
as opposed to defaulting to some sort of dogmatic book
which it has stock answers for everything and their way way outdated
and they're from times when people thought the world was fuckin flat
when people thought that the sun revolved around the earth
I mean the list goes on and on a ball that ridiculous believes that
they had at the time so it we believe it because we actually
did this thing called a research
so to say that we're gonna dismiss you because you did research
in because you don't wanna you know jumpin' like a sheep
and do this sheep like actioner this a lemming like actually just follow people
BI hey the crowd believes it the crowd believes it so I believe it do
that's not a reason to believe anything you know that is not a reason to believe
anything i mean there was a time when a majority the world believe the earth was
flat
there was a time not that long ago what a hundred years ago two hundred years
ago
Roma jordy the people on the planet would've been like yes leary's great
closely refight what you're against slavery was that even mean how could you
be against
it's clear some people are just superior what we talked about
so the majority you know feeling that doesn't mean anything
and again the irony is that you can actually flip it
in the sense that they look at us like what were what are you missing what's
wrong with you
but we actually look at them like that what okay see you just follow the crowd
that's what you do
also y'all think you don't know I care enough to figure out like the deepest
questions or look into it at all
shares his album with the this group on the Catholic
I'm a fuckin whatever baptist you're just throwing in your lot with the
people
that you happen to grow up around I love that I really do it just so happens that
everybody was a member for religion believes it
your one specific little region in the world in your one specific little
country in the world
and all the countries in all the religions all the people that ever
existed
the thousands if not hundreds of thousands of them you don't know mine is
right
my mommy and daddy had it right now believe what they believe
yeah I don't wanna fall for those people because they don't think rather will for
somebody who secular
so the idea that you dismiss somebody because they
come to a different conclusion which by the way happens to be true based on the
evidence we have now
it's just depressing Manish is depressing it shows this that we have a
lot of work to do to change perceptions
cuz in our bubble you know me a lot you guys listen to the show
we don't think we'll obviously people they might be a Christian I might be
this they might be that but they don't
day will admit in a moment of honesty I'm agnostic or whatever
her really no no know in a limo to Monsey they might be even more bigoted
and more ridiculous in their beliefs
and that's the sad thing we got a lot of work to do