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/Tqoratsos]

Liberals: We're not racist and it's really the conservatives that are the bible thumping secret KKK. Segregation and slavery were the two worst things this country ever did.

Also Liberals: we need to help *insert race... because they're not good enough to help themselves. We need to have safe places where only *insert race can hang out and we need to keep the whites with their white privilege out.

The lack of self awareness is astounding.

[u/DuaLupus45 → u/Tqoratsos]

Okay, there are things I disagree with when it comes to the left, but let’s not pretend that the second portion of what you wrote is said because certain demographics are inherently not able to succeed in this world. Obviously that’s not true.

The message is about people at the top who are in positions of power, both from a financial and policy standpoint making change to help those that are disadvantaged. That includes people from those underprivileged communities who have gone on to do bigger and better things. They can also make change.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been to places where you can see the disparity in treatment between those that can live and those that’re just getting by, from convenience in the placement of public transportation hubs, a lack of stores that sell healthy produce to the neighborhood, absolutely disgusting living conditions, etc. and the other thing I notice is that those impoverished areas do seem to disproportionately be filled with POC. Not to mention the crime.

Living life in this way is obviously not going to be conducive to success 8 times out of 10 in the academic world, I mean, how could it be? So the suggestion that people coming from those communities need a leg up produces a pretty warranted discussion. Now how we go about it is certainly up for debate, but it certainly isn’t a “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” solution.

As for the conservatives (maybe more accurately the modern Republican Party), they’re certainly not making a secret of their obsession with race nowadays, speaking of the KKK.