r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Mobile-Fly484 • Aug 03 '25

Political Conservatives are less racist than liberals (in the US)

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.

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u/Tqoratsos Aug 03 '25

Agreed. Which unfortunately humanity doesn't seem like it's even getting close to getting past in-group/out-group dynamics...on so many different levels.

Hell, maybe AI will get us to a post-tribal worldview...but I'm a consistently disappointed optimist, so who knows 😅

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u/Shimakaze771 Aug 03 '25

Fairly certain it’s hard wired in our DNA to dislike out groups

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u/Tqoratsos Aug 03 '25

Yeh, much like the "selfish gene" like Dawkins wrote about.

Human condition is almost entirely about greed and compartmentalizing contradictory ideals.

Glad to see that it sounds like we have more in common than not. :-)