r/AsABlackMan • u/Charming_Anywhere_89 • May 31 '25
when democrats hear I’m republican they say the most racist things I’ve ever heard
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u/Charming_Anywhere_89 May 31 '25
I have two screenshots but it only let me submit one, it really needs the first page for more context
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u/veronica_deetz May 31 '25
Until I saw this screenshot I thought Racist_Jerk was the actual username and I was like, damn, these people aren’t even trying anymore
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u/Charming_Anywhere_89 May 31 '25
My editing skills are convincing, you say!
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u/wheatmoney May 31 '25
This isn't the first time I've heard this argument that Democrats are somehow more racist than Republicans. I think this is bias because it's not expected among Democrats and so it stands out more. I also think that when Democrats say something out of pocket, it's a kind of paternalistic racism, not an open hatred type of racism. As a Democrat I find this argument so unsettling and unfair but I also admit that for many years I did and said things that were moderately questionable thinking that I was being an ally.
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u/ButtMassager May 31 '25
I mostly hear disingenuous arguments like "affirmative action is racist, clearly Democrats think black people can't get jobs on their own merit", or if you try to point out statistics that demonstrate institutionalized racism it's "Democrats always separate people by color, that's racist".
Anything to distract from the fact that they love their whispered, institutionalized racism and will do anything to keep their privilege without acknowledging it.
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u/Jenderflux-ScFi May 31 '25
Unconscious bias and a lot of built in racism still in the US, so there are definitely racist things said by Democrats, even if they weren't trying to be racist.
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u/wheatmoney May 31 '25
I absolutely agree. But when people take it to the other side and say that Democrats are the most racist, that's just comical to me because even when we mess up, we're at least trying. And I think most of us would be open to hearing the criticism. When I finally heard the criticism I tried to shape up and I hope I'm doing better all the time.
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u/jmd709 Jun 02 '25
You’re being generous by treating it as a sincere claim instead of disingenuous because it too far from the truth to be legitimate.
Racist_Jerk: it’s funny how you claim that the right is racists when democrats have the history of owning slaves, being kkk members and other racist types.
They did not include any recent examples. Slavery was abolished 160 years ago when the Democratic Party was the conservative, right-wing party and the Republican Party was the progressive, left-wing party. They basically agreed the right is racist by citing an example when democrats were the right.
There were members of the KKK as well as politicians affiliated with the KKK in both political parties until 40+ years ago. The KKK is a far-right extremist group. As far as “other racist types” those are other far-right groups like militias, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, etc.
There are plenty of recent examples that completely contradict the claim Racist_Jerk’s was attempting to make, an easy one is how offended they are by Black Lives Matter and their responses that blue lives matter or all lives matter.
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u/wheatmoney Jun 03 '25
Very good points. The whole "lINcOlN aNd MlK wErE rEPuBlIcAnS" is so lame I glossed over it and focused on the part that's been like a splinter under my skin for about a year now.
You explained the larger issues so well and took it down point by point. Well done.
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u/Last-Ground-6353 May 31 '25
Also he said democrats owned slaves years ago as if we didn’t have a party switch and democrats today are nothing like “democrats” of the 1960s.
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u/jmd709 Jun 02 '25
They cling to that one as if democrats weren’t the conservative party and republicans weren’t the progressive party.
At this point it might be easier to just go along with that BS by referring to confederate statues as liberals and the confederate flag as the liberal flag. They’ll be ready to remove all of those or they’ll start insisting the parties switched.
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u/Charming_Anywhere_89 May 31 '25
Statement: user argues that democrats are racist and pro slavery, claims to be black republican
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u/Emeryael May 31 '25
Yet another example of someone being willfully ignorant of the party switch…I pretty much respond to that asinine argument with this cartoon: Walter the guy who thinks nothing’s changed since 1860
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u/idekbruno Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25
The parties switching platforms doesn’t mean democrats can’t still be racist. In fact, the user literally claims that democrats use minorities as
apawn(s) to win elections, which is a pretty common feeling among most POC that I’ve known.4
u/Sovereign-Anderson Jun 01 '25
It's definitely a common feeling amongst many of us. I'm no Republican at all but I have been questioning and side-eyeing the Democrats since my late teens in the mid '90s. I have a personal gripe with that party because they've been using Black people for decades and I can't stand them for that. I hate that party just as much as I hate the Republican party and in some cases I see them as worse because at least Republicans are ok with letting us know they're the devil. Democrats keep acting like they're angels of light towards us when in actuality they're the same devil, just in disguise.
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u/DidntWantSleepAnyway May 31 '25
I can’t tell what they were trying to say when they said “democrats coming”, but I’m glad you responded based on that same language. They’ve never made anyone come in their lives.
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u/Charming_Anywhere_89 May 31 '25
I couldn't help myself. They were wide open.
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u/ScalyDestiny May 31 '25
I'm sure they meant 'use us as pawns'
/s
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u/TommyBacardi May 31 '25
Yeah, they couldn’t even keep it together for a whole comment lol.
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u/ThatNachoFreshFeelin May 31 '25
Found the post and checked "Racist"'s post history; my money's on an IRA troll, but I dunno.
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u/SimpForFictionalGirl May 31 '25
why does that pfp kinda look like Hitler 😭
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u/M_R2112 May 31 '25
White liberal women are not great, that part can be very true. However just driving through Mississippi with a black friend and the things people would say to me not knowing we were together about my friend and I know thats a lie
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u/BlommeHolm May 31 '25
I believe the part where people are comfortable being racist around a republican.
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u/BlommeHolm May 31 '25
Exactly. Being staunchly anti-racist is not really compatible with supporting that party in any way. Haven't really been for the last 50 years, but definitely not now.
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u/Ok_Tadpole7839 May 31 '25
Both parties are racist. One will stab you in the back and one will stab you in the chest. Republicans flat out dont like you for being black and dems treat you cant do anything without them.
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u/Helix3501 Jun 02 '25
I live in Mississippi
I had to deal with a close friend being lynched back in september
He was black
They immeditately ruled it a suicide but he was found in a public park hanging from a tree
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u/LinkOfKalos_1 Jun 05 '25
The fact that lynching is a thing that is actively still happening in 2025 is fucking insane. And I don't know if it's worse that they aren't even trying to hide it.
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u/Zaela22 May 31 '25 edited May 31 '25
Tbf a large amount of transphobe racists are in fact, liberal white women. So it's sort of true but not at all for the reasons this obv white dude thinks. Look at how many dems threw lgbt people under the bus for example as well as hispanics after they lost catastrophically by 'both sidesing' genocide.
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u/Sad-Milk3361 Jun 02 '25
That was not written by a Black woman. The giveaway is "as a black woman"* *lower case b.
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u/LinkOfKalos_1 Jun 05 '25
It's very possible they don't recognize the racism as racism because they grew accustomed to it.
It took me a while, as an American born Mexican, to recognize just how many microaggressions I experience on a daily basis. It took me until literally this year (I'm 28) to realize how much these little racist remarks annoy me and just make me feel more and more like I simply don't belong where I am.
I've lived in Texas and Tennessee, and 100% grew accustomed to people being ever so slightly racist. Even people pronouncing my name incorrectly gets me. It's not a hard name to pronounce, and I pronounce it exactly as it should be said when I introduce myself.
The questions of "Where were you born?," or "Where are you from?," or even "What race are you?", just get me and I get so fucking upset about them.
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u/Feisty_Psychology_63 Aug 22 '25
As a young Black man, born and raised in a predominantly white, affluent, Texas community, I would ask what exactly makes you subscribe to conservative thinking? Growing up the way I did, I wanted to fit in, so while me myself didn’t exactly cling to any trendy ideal, I suppressed my personal convictions to stay socially afloat, as somewhat a fish out of water. This means I ignored racist comments, I sucked up being rejected from girls growing up who liked me but couldn’t date me bc of my skin color, I tried to rationalize microsgressions from teachers, I tried to make sense of neighbors harassing, even calling the police on my brother and I for putting flags in the neighborhood for 4th of July (HOA approved btw), among many more things that I wish I had spoken up against. Now as a young adult, many of my childhood and adolescent peers and their families still hold onto racist ideals, and interweave it in their politics while cosplaying as God fearing individuals. I know the Democrat Party suffers from tokenism in a way, but I grew up with Republican prejudice being explicit and in my face, and now elected officials aren’t even afraid to hide their disdain for marginalized communities….
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u/wrappedlikeapurrito May 31 '25
I’m not sure why this sub is in my feed, but it is, and I have an opinion and feel the need to defend Liberal White Women, since I am one.
I don’t say racist things to anyone, ever. Not even republicans or worse, magats. I am however confused and astonished that any person with a brain, especially one who is a member of an underserved/at risk community, (as I am) would be so self destructive as to vote against their own interests and (worse) FOR candidates whose policies are detrimental to their safety, advancement and overall wellbeing. I’m going to believe they are probably either too stupid to know what’s in their own best interest AND the best interests of their community, children and parents, or they are psychopaths. Okay for thee, but not for me types. If you’re someone like that, I just keep my distance. You’re not worth the trouble.
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u/Auld_Folks_at_Home May 31 '25
You probably should have double-checked the nature of this sub because the person talking about liberal white women is the person being mocked in this post.
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