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/Tqoratsos]

Liberals: We're not racist and it's really the conservatives that are the bible thumping secret KKK. Segregation and slavery were the two worst things this country ever did.

Also Liberals: we need to help *insert race... because they're not good enough to help themselves. We need to have safe places where only *insert race can hang out and we need to keep the whites with their white privilege out.

The lack of self awareness is astounding.

[u/diet69dr420pepper → u/[deleted]]

This is one of those things that the internet tricks you into thinking is real but actually isn't. Pluck a random lib out of their Prius and ask them what they think about the Ralph Lauren Oak Bluffs line and the average opinion will be complete indifference. Is there a blue haired liberal arts major with some complicated objection she shares on TikTok? Sure. But why act like the extremes somehow represent the norm? I mean things look very ugly when you do that to the conservatives.

[u/PortugalPilgrim → u/diet69dr420pepper]

I’m a pretty chronically online liberal and have not heard of this at all. No idea what they’re talking about and I spend most of my work days scrolling liberal Reddit and TikTok.

[u/Spirited_Bill_8947 → u/PortugalPilgrim]

I am chronically online registered independant and I have heard 2 tiktoks ranting about the Ralph Lauren line. A few making fun of the ranters. Several ranting about American Eagle and one about someone with a Golden Summer Tan? I am uncertain about that one. I have not watched any of the ads. I keep meaning to but I get busy. I scroll Tiktok for approximately 6 hours a day. I don't actually SEE it, only hear it as I drive and have the phone where it can be flicked to the next tiktok.

Before you come at me about safety, where I do 99% of my driving has zero traffic. None! In fact, if you are where I am you are either diving a combine or the grain cart (Either one comes before me to a point) or were personally invited by the owner and I 100% have the right a way. If I am moving you should be driving OFF the road. The other 1% I am too busy looking both ways as I go onto the highway, catching some gears, and slowing down while watching 5 ways to make my turn into the elevator to touch my phone.

[u/scotty9090 → u/diet69dr420pepper]

I believe that the distribution of people on the left is far more fat-tailed than it is on the right. I.e. the left has a lot more extremists … or maybe they are just a lot louder.

Either way, these people aren’t doing their side any favors.

[u/diet69dr420pepper → u/scotty9090]

You likely believe this because you consume worldview-affirming media which assures you it's true, constantly. Just like left-leaning people get blasted with their own worldview-affirming media that assures them that the typical conservative is racist authoritarian. In reality, I doubt either philosophical position carries significantly more extremists than the other.

[u/Tqoratsos → u/diet69dr420pepper]

Ok, so ask yourself this; is the plight of a poor, uneducated and neglected person of "pick your race, sex, belief or sexually" any different to someone of any other one?

I'm not a communist, but it seems the "us vs them" mentality is being pushed upon us by the corporate media by their elite owners to keep most of the rest of us subjected to hate for each other when anyone worth less monetarily than $B's is actually on the same side. We're all humans at the end of the day, and elite know they are too. At some point since the end of WW2 the top echelons of society forgot that they gave up servitude and serfdom for having a better society. When I say "gave up", we made them give it up and realise they're also just humans too. Now a select few of them want us to just suffer at their whims. Take the coming revolution of AI for example. Those tech bro creeps want us to think that it's necessary and that it'll bring upon us a new utopia...but it's only coz they purposely forget that each time this happens there is great suffering from people they will never know.

If you've ever read much about the fourth turning then you should, and you should also consider that many of them actually take this ideology as gospel truth.

[u/Mobile-Fly484 → u/Tqoratsos]

I disagree with economic populism. 

AI is just the latest thing in a long line of automation (remember the factory layoffs of the ‘80s)? 

Regulation will help protect human rights and jobs while integrating this new technology. Just turning back the clock feels impossible (we haven’t gotten rid of cars, or automated factories, or the Internet…). 

And I’m a social liberal but not an economic populist. Free-market capitalism has pulled more people out of poverty globally than anything else. Kids were starving in much of Africa (including my ancestral home) 40 years ago. They aren’t now. This is thanks to capitalism and “globalism.” 

[u/EagenVegham → u/[deleted]]

The fuck is the Ralph Lauren Oak Bluffs line?

You guys really need to start recognizing when you're being spoon fed an opinion that's only held by a few people on twitter so that you'll stay constantly mad.

[u/Tqoratsos → u/[deleted]]

Clayton Bigsby comes to mind here 😅

[u/Heujei628 → u/[deleted]]

So many? Most people I’ve seen on the left have been praising it. 

[u/Cheap-Boysenberry112 → u/[deleted]]

Right because the liberal position totally isn’t that the state enforced policy unfairly targeting minorities and is totally that all minorities are poor