Every few months, I find myself citing this study: Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution by Harvard economist Erzo F.P. Luttmer.
It proves with empirical data that voters have refused valuable government assistance if a group they despise would also receive the same aid. It’s an incredibly useful, potent finding.
This same logic of hate was expertly parodied by Chappelle’s Show in its profile of the fictitious Clayton Bigsby: a black man who is blind, believes he is white and espouses white supremacy. Upon discovering that he is, indeed, black, Bigsby divorces his white wife because “she was a nigger lover.”