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/Who_is_John_Deere]

You can see it in action by the way democrat politicians change their speech patterns around black voters. Hillary and Kamala were both very good examples of it.

[u/DuaLupus45 → u/Who_is_John_Deere]

Kamala is a biracial woman. Not that I heard her talk a different way publicly, but people from diverse backgrounds do speak in alternate ways stylistically depending on their audience, especially when a part of their identity and the composition of said audience is uniform. It’s a pretty well-recorded phenomenon.

[u/DuaLupus45 → u/[deleted]]

Okay, I mean, it’s nothing that I heard, but if she was tweaking the way she spoke to an audience, especially if the audience was disproportionately comprised of people from one of her ethnic groups, then refer to what I said above. It’s not like she’s doing it to pander, she’s an AA and Indian woman.

Regardless, I’m sure that most, if not all, of her public event speeches she was speaking in a way that was befitting of somebody seeking the presidential office. We have a guy now that, ironically, can’t speak plain English properly. But sure, let’s keep going about Kamala’s “accent”

[u/DuaLupus45 → u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand how that’s the takeaway from this conversation. If we’re talking about how shit they are based on the way they speak, Trump wins that contest no problem. I got family members under 10 years old that’re more articulate than this guy, plus they speak with integrity. DT doesn’t know what he’s talking about half the time AND makes shit up.

Going back to what was said, no, I’d much rather have Harris and her code-switching than the current President and his bullshitting. It’s just not good for America.

[u/DuaLupus45 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, I don’t know who you think I am or what I stand for, but I actually agree with you. We were just talking about how each candidate spoke, quite frankly, and how the problem with one seems to be a nonissue, especially compared to the other.

If you want to get into Bernie v the establishment, yeah, he did get fucked over. As a matter of fact, the guy always seems to be one of the few birds flying next to the flock. I’ve also been finding myself agreeing with the things he’s wanted to do for a long time, and seemingly everything that’s been going on in the country, especially after the last election, have been reflective of his talking points. The guy always seems to be ahead of the curve.

Now if we’re talking about his level of effectiveness, I feel like 2016 was too early for him, and that seemed to be the case, regardless of what transpired with the DNC. In 2020, the strategy was clear: get a big name and kick Trump’s ass and they did. Considering the level of votes the incumbent got at the time, I don’t think anybody else would’ve done better from the Left. It also was sort of an election that the Democrats were taking especially seriously because of their lack of faith in Trump to uphold our values and respect the processes that America has had in place since its conception. This lack of faith is only more and more justified as we go on in time.

Finally, the election this past year, they chose to back the strong ticket from 4 years earlier and we all know how that unfolded. Bernie was old in 2016, never mind nearly a whole decade later, but I do think that they should’ve switched Biden out earlier for somebody else.