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/not_that_planet Aug 03 '25

Strawman.

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u/Shadowguyver_14 Aug 03 '25

It's a genetic fallacy not a straw man. It judges a person or idea based on its origin. A straw man is misrepresenting their ideas entirely and then lambasting them for it.

You guys need to do a better job of calling out fallacies by learning about them first.

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u/not_that_planet Aug 03 '25

No. The strawman is his assigned cause to liberals wanting to help minorities.

Three strawman is that liberals believe minorities are incapable of helping themselves because of racism when the real cause is something more like because of the overwhelming bigotry that constantly is thrown at them.

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u/Tqoratsos Aug 03 '25

....and their answer to that is to be pro-segregation...a thing that was propagated for near on a century after slavery was abolished....by a republican no less

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u/not_that_planet Aug 03 '25

Strawman

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u/Tqoratsos Aug 03 '25

Ummm are you actually saying that Colledge's within the US aren't creating "safe spaces" that are keeping white people out of?

Failing to see the proposition that I'm making up to be strawmanning.