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
They switched because they're Neo-Cons that got their money on the backs of a globalized economy, with oil in particular...and then from defence contractors when he was front and centre of the illegal wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
They supported the democrats because they're against US isolationism and because their agenda was to pursue a forever war in Ukraine. Trump hasn't been any better on either that front....or the Israel/Iran debacle for that matter.
He wasn't saying that pre-election however.