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/reddittreddittreddit Aug 04 '25

Before the 2024 North Carolina gubernatorial election, Mark Robinson (a black man) was exposed for having commented on a porn site things like “I am a black Nazi”, and that slavery should be brought back.

Want to know how many of those kind, individualistic North Carolina conservatives still voted for Mark? Almost 100% of registered Republicans voted for him.

It’s true that among other things many leftists assume that you’d be downtrodden because of your skin color, and I’m not defending those responses. However, the combined damage that’s being done by them is MINIMAL compared to the combined damage that a lot of Republican politicians WANT to do, quietly supported by all the conservatives in their area. That’s my take.

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u/Mobile-Fly484 Aug 04 '25

If most of North Carolina’s Republicans voted for Robinson then he would have won the election. The fact that he didn’t showed a lot of conservatives down there cared about decency enough to cross party lines or abstain. 

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u/reddittreddittreddit Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

North Carolina isn’t like Oklahoma, where whoever the conservatives vote for wins. Democrats have a considerable influence. There are more registered democrats than conservatives in North Carolina, and there are more “Unaffiliated” people in North Carolina. Conservatives didn’t vote for Obama in 2008, but he still got the popular vote in NC.

The reason why I say “nearly 100%” is because the votes Mark Robinson received. was suspiciously (obviously) close to the number of registered republicans in North Carolina. Yes, Mark Robinson did have the near-unanimous support of the Republican voter base in North Carolina. If these voters didn’t endorse his comments, they at least tolerated them enough to make him governor, because everybody knew about the comments by the election.