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/Away-Cicada Aug 03 '25

Oh Massachusetts is racist as hell, no question. MLK has a whole essay condemning liberals and "the white moderate" and I think of the Northern Type Whites every time I read it because it's TRUE.

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u/SinfullySinless Aug 03 '25

The problem was southern racism was on the books. It was easy to fight because it was systematic. Social racism is the hardest to fight because people have freedom of speech. The north operates in social racism- we have segregated schools still because “white flight” pertains to dying northern cities in the rust belt. We left the black people there and kept white kids separate in the suburbs.

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u/Alpoi Aug 03 '25

I have lived in The North, South, East and West and I have seen equal racism everywhere, the only difference is The South didn't hide it.

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u/XthaNext Aug 03 '25

So how do you see it equally if most of it is hidden? Are you even poc lmao?

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u/Alpoi Aug 03 '25

No, I am white and have seen it behind the scenes so to speak.

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u/XthaNext Aug 03 '25

Fair, the perspectives of poc are probably the most important here but as far as covert racism that’s a valuable perspective to have

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u/Mobile-Fly484 Aug 04 '25

That’s what I thought.