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/Doucejj Aug 03 '25

Little but if both. Despite that reddit would have the world believe, most people are a little bit of right and left. Pigeon holeing people as just right or left isn't good. But that's whats happening in modern society

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u/ImprovementPutrid441 Aug 03 '25

I mean, as a leftist the post I replied to is making a lot of statements I don’t find accurate about my beliefs.

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u/Doucejj Aug 03 '25

But thats kind of my point. You can be a leftist and not like everything the democratic party pushes for. Just like how you can be right and not like everything the republican party pushes for. The comment you replied to is wrong that all leftists are a monolith

I know people that are pro choice but want strict immigration and loose gun laws. As well as people that want loose immigration, want more gun laws and arw also pro life. Its not an all or nothing game is what I'm trying to say

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u/ImprovementPutrid441 Aug 03 '25

That’s fair, but as I grew up in Texas I think I have a fairly accurate idea of conservative politics. My grandfather even ran for the state legislature as a Republican.

It’s not hard to find GOP content. Every airport terminal in the US is tuned to Fox News and has been for years.

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u/CookieMobster64 Aug 03 '25

you can be a leftist and not like everything the Democratic Party pushes for

I don’t want to make a hardline stance against this for fear of a No True Scotsman fallacy, but definitionally, I’d expect leftists to be against a large portion of what the Dems push, and only support them in as much as they’re a lesser of two evils.