U.S. support for LGBTQ+ rights is declining after decades of support. Here’s why
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For the last few decades, LGBTQ+ rights in America have seen increasing public support. But now, a new survey finds a slight decline in that support for the first time in years. William Brangham speaks with Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, to learn more about the data.
  • BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    623·
    8 months ago

    The data comes from an anti-lgbtq+ organization, so I’m gonna call this bullshit. I’m a pretty salty that PBS even promoted this propaganda.

      • BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        543·
        8 months ago

        The organization who published this survey is ran by a man who received all of their education at a religious colleges in Missouri, decided to start an “American Values Atlas”, and most recently, is pushing a narrative that support for LGBTQ+ people is diminishing, despite other indicators to the contrary. The survey doesn’t disclose who the set of participants is, or how the data was collected, just that large number (22,000) was asked as part of an in-house program (an “American Values Atlas”).

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      21·
      8 months ago

      I just scanned because it wasn’t written for changes to stand out but it’s the headline that’s wrong.

      I see a lot of lines like

      Americans aged 18-29 show a gradual decrease in support for LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws over the last three years, declining from a peak of 83% in 2020 to 75% in 2023

      Technically correct that support is declining, but it’s still a huge majority

  • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world
    342·
    8 months ago

    Looks like this isn’t the general population and just a subset of right leaning populations becoming radicalized. Which has been a general trend lately.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3010·
    8 months ago

    It’s a forseen reaction to activists no longer pushing for passive tolerance but rather active support.

    • simple@lemm.ee
      1014·
      8 months ago

      Actually good take. I’ve seen a lot of LGBT communities, especially online in the last few years, move towards an “us vs. them” mentality

        • alucard
          610·
          8 months ago

          True, but two ideas can be correct. As a species when we’re divided we are arguably at our worst.

          • Evkob@lemmy.ca
            73·
            8 months ago

            As a species when we’re divided we are arguably at our worst.

            Agreed, but it’s ignorant (at best) to suggest that trans people are responsible for social division rather than the right-wing groups actively trying to eradicate trans people.

            It’d be like blaming Jews for socially dividing Germany in the interwar era.

            • alucard
              43·
              8 months ago

              Smh. It was probably not smart to engage here. I really was trying to have a good faith conversation. I absolutely think that trans folks and LGBTQ+ and everyone else should absolutely be able to have every freedom and liberty to live their lives and pursue happiness without threats of any kind. Period.

      • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
        112·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, I feel like the Us vs. Them is kinda originating from the conservative Right though. Every radicalization is just met with more radicalization from the other party. At the end of the day, it’s gay people who are being opressed… and all right-wing people have to complain about are fairy tale propagandas from 4chan and the talking heads on Fox going on about the Trans Agenda converting kids to be gay, which isn’t real.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      162·
      8 months ago

      You sound like my brother who screams about how people should home school because it’s so horrible that they teach children to hold respect for me as a person.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      8 months ago

      "First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

      - MLK, 1963

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      13·
      8 months ago

      Everyone jumping to downvote without considering.

      • if it’s your attitude, most here will disagree but you have a right to your opinion. They also have a right o try to talk you out of it
      • if you’re saying more people feel this way, it’s a legit idea that needs to be considered. People just don’t like change so the bigger the step forward, the more who will think it went too far