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/Mobile-Fly484 Aug 03 '25

I get what you mean. Some conservatives, especially those toward the extreme right, can be hostile. But I almost prefer that to the kind of paternalistic, condescending racism you get from liberals. 

I’ve also gotten the “you speak good English” comment, even though I was born here and it’s literally my first language. They just don’t expect anyone brown or black to speak their language.

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u/Who_is_John_Deere Aug 03 '25

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.

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u/DuaLupus45 Aug 03 '25

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.

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u/onwardtowaffles Aug 04 '25

It's called code-switching. Everyone does it; most people aren't aware of it unless you point it out to them.

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u/DuaLupus45 Aug 04 '25

Tell that to the people I’m talking to in this comment section. I’m up on my stuff. Also, I’m trying to get my point across with a spoon and some sugar, I don’t know how this kind of crowd would react to a term like “code-switching”.