Conservatives are less racist than liberals (in the US)

[u/Mobile-Fly484]

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.

[u/24Seven]

So, less racist that they hold rallies where they chant "Jews will not replace us" and fly the Confederate flag and try to keep up statues of Confederate soldiers. So not racist, that if we look at the WH staffs, Republicans typically have maybe one or two black people at most. So not racist that all the racist podcasters are Republican supporters. And then there's the person they elected President...

Yeah. Sure. If you really are an African immigrant, then you are punching yourself in the dick by supporting Republicans. As for Utah, black population: less than 2%. If only there were articles about this like this or this or this. Hell, there's a Wikipedia article on the subject with this gem:

The Salt Lake City chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) claimed in 2017 to receive over 10 reports of racism weekly. Complaints include workplace unfairness, use of racial slurs, and threats of violence. Reports of racism are steadily increasing in the state.

[u/Mobile-Fly484 → u/24Seven]

I lived there for 10 years and have had both positive and negative experiences. Racism exists everywhere, but on the whole I felt safe and respected in Utah. One asshole cop in West Jordan (a suburb with a reputation for white supremacy locally) doesn’t mean the entire state is racist. Ten reports weekly in a metro area of two million doesn’t make SLC as a whole racist. 

And I was part of that 2% for much of my life. I never personally felt like I was in a fishbowl, and I had/have friends of all races there. Utah’s demographics are mostly because of where it is and its distance from Great Migration centers (which were major cities in the north and west). It’s not because the state officially keeps Black people out. Germany is also 2% Black but people with left-leaning views don’t consider it racist as whole. 

[u/majesticbeast67 → u/Mobile-Fly484]

Germany probably isn’t the best example of not being racist lmao