A new survey reveals that white millennials aren’t as left-wing and “woke” as are their minority peers. The finding is sending shivers up the spine of one columnist, who views the diversity of opinion outside the leftist orthodoxy as  “alarming” and “worrisome.”

Journalist Jonathan Capehart penned his distress in yesterday’s Washington Post, beginning with a pretentious high-five to America’s youth for their enlightenment in agreeing with his politics — specifically regarding gay marriage — before bemoaning their inability to see his way as the only way on other issues:

“Surely, the forward-thinking millennial generation will deliver us from the sins of their elders. But the survey results — with the apt title 'The "woke" generation?: Millennial attitudes on race in the US' — dashed my hopes of that... As a new GenForward Survey of 18-to-34-year-olds reveals, white millennials are ‘quickly becoming the outlier group in this generation.’”

For Capehart, one of the most disturbing revelations of the study is that young whites feel “hope” in light of President Trump’s win, third on the list to “disgust” and “embarrassment.” Capehart believes it is not humanly possible for anyone but racists to find anything hopeful about Trump's presidency. Secondly, he finds it offensive that half of white millennials don’t believe the President is a racist, "despite all the evidence to the contrary":

“The next warning sign comes in Figure 4 with a straightforward question. ‘Do you believe Donald Trump is a racist or is not a racist?’ No surprise that overwhelming majorities of African Americans (82 percent), Asian Americans (74 percent) and Latinos (78 percent) say, ‘Yes.’ White millennials, however, were almost split. A saving grace is that 51 percent said, ‘Yes.’ But 48 percent saying no, despite all the evidence to the contrary, is beyond worrisome.”

And then, for Capehart, “worrisome” turns to “alarming”:  “As you read deeper into the report, the warning signs give way to red alerts.”

According to the study, 23% of whites believe Black Lives Matter is a “racist” group. Furthermore, 51% of whites view BLM and white nationalist groups as “not very different” from one another. Perhaps worse still is that 62% of young whites are (gasp!) opposed to the removal of Confederate statues. “I could go on with the other red alerts in the report,” he writes. Very likely, his least favorite result is this: when asked if blacks should “[overcome] prejudice and work their way up” without “any special favors,” whites agreed at a rate of 59 percent.  

In response to this diversity of opinion, the one diversity leftists find unacceptable, he references his Washington Post piece from a year ago titled “White Millennials Vote a Lot More Like Whites Than Like Millennials.” But don’t blame Capehart for his emotional distress; leftists aren't capable of reality.