An October 2017 poll conducted by teams from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard’s School of Public Health showed that a majority of white people (around 55 percent) believe there is anti-white discrimination in America. A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute in collaboration with MTV zeroes in on this question with young people, specifically those aged 15 to 24.

Among young white men and women, 36 percent say so-called reverse discrimination is as serious a problem in America today as discrimination against minority groups. But when broken down by gender, white men are significantly more likely to believe in reverse discrimination — 43 percent of men as opposed to only 29 percent of women. The idea of racism against whites being as serious a problem as discrimination against groups such as black Americans — who still face significant hurdles in employment, housing, and criminal justice, to name a few — doesn’t hold up to serious scrutiny.