New Research Suggests Americans Revolting Against Left’s Favorite Special Interest

A new paper from Harvard University researchers claims that “long-standing declines in bias have stalled or reversed” among Americans, particularly younger Americans. 

The researchers examined data from 2.5 million U.S. respondents collected between 2021 and 2024, examining “[i]mplicit and explicit attitudes … towards seven social groups: sexuality, race, skin-tone, age, disability, body weight, and newly also transgender identity.” 

“All seven attitudes showed increasing bias, with the largest increases in race, skin-tone, sexuality, and transgender attitudes, the latter two especially among self-identifying conservatives.” (RELATED: Only One Democratic White House Hopeful Is Willing To Say The Truth About Trans People)

Let’s zero in on “sexuality and transgender attitudes.” Could it be possible that years of shoving deranged sex stuff into the public sphere, and demanding enthusiastic applause, might’ve induced a little gay fatigue? The goalposts moved pretty quickly from “love is love” to “let a crossdresser read to your kindergartener or you’re an evil bigot.” 

“The new observed bias increases since 2021 highlight how minds get reshaped by sweeping sociocultural change,” the authors claim in their abstract. 

“New research…reveals the decades-long rise in acceptance of gay people in the US peaked around 2020 and has sharply reversed since then…Perhaps most surprising is that these trends were distinctly robust among the youngest American adults–under 25.”https://t.co/b1BdnfSooT

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) January 22, 2026

“Sweeping sociocultural change” is a good description for the years between 1965 or so and 2020. Besides, I’m not sure the authors have enough evidence to claim that minds were “reshaped” in four years. Their data only tells us what people are willing to publicly say they believe. It’s quite possible that a person who was reluctant to express negative views of fat people in 2021 more readily expresses those views in 2026. 

To assess implicit attitudes, researchers used Implicit Association Tests (IATs). 

The authors explain that the IAT is “computerized reaction time task that compares participants’ speed of categorizing image and word stimuli together in ‘congruent’ blocks (e.g., Thin=good/Fat=bad) against the speed of categorizing image and word stimuli in ‘incongruent’ blocks (e.g., Fat=good/Thin=bad). The psychological assumption behind the test is that faster sorting in the congruent blocks indicates that the congruent pairs (e.g., Thin=good/Fat=bad) are more strongly and commonly associated in a participant’s mind and culture.” 

IATs are extraordinarily easy to manipulate. I encourage you to try the test for yourself. By counting to two or three in your head before you react to any word stimuli, you’ll be deemed clean of bias. For this reason, I’ll disregard any conclusions the authors have drawn about implicit bias. 

From 1995 to 2015 Americans were admonished that unless they allowed gays to marry, they were hateful and bigoted. Americans aren’t, so they acquiesced.

What happened next is almost none of them got married, transgenderism/queer stuff began openly targeting kids, and monkeypox. https://t.co/1xHWnNBvF0

— ib (@Indian_Bronson) June 18, 2023

Their methodology for testing explicit preferences is better. 

“To assess explicit attitudes, we used a 7-point scale ranging from -3 reflecting strong counter-cultural preferences, such as ‘I strongly prefer Fat people to Thin people’ to +3, reflecting strong normative-cultural preferences, such as ‘I strongly prefer Thin people to Fat people.’” 

Again: Participants’ answers don’t tell us whether “Americans are getting more or less biased,” only whether Americans are becoming more or less comfortable expressing their biases. (RELATED: Stars Of Gay Hockey Show Will Carry Torch At Winter Olympics)

The authors note that “younger people have reserved relatively faster than older people … young people today appear primed towards attitude backsliding. Critically, the current work suggests such toxic ideologies don’t remain hidden in online corners of sub-populations (e.g., young conservative men) but spread to entire populations of young people, including young liberals and young women.” 

Young people who partake in so-called “toxic ideologies” come from a diversity of backgrounds. Huge win for the equity and inclusion crowd.

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