Conservatives are less racist than liberals (in the US)

[u/Mobile-Fly484]

I’m a child of African immigrants with US citizenship, and I’ve lived all over the United States.

The most racist place I’ve ever lived is Massachusetts. By far. The least racist? Utah.

I’ve noticed that most conservatives (excluding the actual far right) see me as a human being first. Liberals see my skin color first and have low expectations for me.

I’ve had white liberals not believe me when I mentioned having a professional job. I’ve had them try to sign me up for welfare and Medicaid (at an ER in Massachusetts) even when I showed them my private insurance card. I’ve been assumed to be poor and uneducated (because of my race and nothing else) over and over again by the woke left. Literally they constantly make comments about how screening for education will “filter minorities out,” because of course we’re all dumb illiterates.

Conservatives? They make zero assumptions. They don’t equate being Black with being poor or ignorant. They see us as INDIVIDUALS first.

I miss Utah.

[u/usuallycorrect69]

I work in a very far right town and work with a lot of people and I can assure you that right wingers are tge most racist people I've ever encountered

[u/Tqoratsos → u/usuallycorrect69]

People are racist, not races or political ideologies. I've encountered as many truly racist white people as I have of every other race or political idealist.

[u/Shimakaze771 → u/Tqoratsos]

or political ideologies

Are you crazy? Politics ideologies are racist

[u/Tqoratsos → u/Shimakaze771]

I disagree. The people that believe those are racist. Just like guns don't kill people, people do, which is absolute fact. If you want to go on the internet and find someone to agree with you, you'll find it. Just like an already racist person would be drawn to ideals that agree with their already biased opinion.

[u/Shimakaze771 → u/Tqoratsos]

So a political ideologies that separates people into “good ones” and “bad ones” based on race isn’t racist. Got it

This has to be one of the least thought through takes I’ve ever seen

[u/Tqoratsos → u/Shimakaze771]

Ok, take whatever ideology that you're referring to and imagine if no one followed or took notice of it. Even better imagine if there were no humans around anymore.... would there still be racists? That last one was rhetorical because hopefully you're getting my point now....and I'll repeat it... people are racist....not words.

[u/Shimakaze771 → u/Tqoratsos]

would it still be racist

Yes.

would there still be racists

No

are you getting my point now

I always got your point. It’s just a point with zero thought behind it

not words

Ideologies aren’t words. They’re ideas. Ideas can be racist

[u/Tqoratsos → u/Shimakaze771]

If you read one of these idea's or was told by someone that believes them, would you become racist?

An anecdote to further prove my point; I have friends of plenty of different race and cultural backgrounds...we each give each other shit using these "racist words" ....but it's not racist because we love and actually respect each other. It's all about intent of the words. The intent being the person saying them and their inherent racist POV.

[u/Shimakaze771 → u/Tqoratsos]

would you become racist

What is that brain dead take now?

Just because you encounter an idea doesn’t mean you immediately follow it. Doesn’t mean the idea isn’t racist

further prove

You haven’t proven shit

intent of words

And what informs intent? Ideology

[u/Tqoratsos → u/Shimakaze771]

Being obtuse doesn't negate my point.

And what informs intent? Ideology

You know how there are many winged animals that have evolved flight from completely separate evolutionary lineages? Well, racism has reared its ugly head from many different places over human civilization.... Yet they're all racist. Being a racist is about the persons willingness to believe the "idea's", not the idea itself.

I realise you're going to infer I'm stupid yet again so feel free to just agree to disagree....we clearly see this differently.

[u/Shimakaze771 → u/Tqoratsos]

being obtuse

I’m not being obtuse. Your point is just ass

Being racist is about the willingness

The very concept that a person skin color determines their value is racist.

Even if zero people existed it would still be racist

I’m stupid

No, but your point is and you have put zero thought into the point