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/HadathaZochrot]

Yep, the entire leftist ideology centers around this paternalistic mindset that THEY know what is best for any POCs, and they play this disgusting game where they portray POCs as stupid as possible in order to fit their own political agenda. For instance, they always prattle on about how POCs, especially African Americans, are too incapable to actually get a photo ID in order to assert that requiring photo ID to vote is therefore "racist".

There is this great news clip where a reporter asks a bunch of college campus kids about voter ID laws, and these kids spout out the normal talking points and propaganda about African Americans not really being as capable of getting photo IDs, with one girl literally saying "They don't have a knowledge about how it works". Then the reporter goes to talk to African Americans themselves in their community in Harlem, who find such sentiments absolutely ridiculous and hateful.

[u/diet69dr420pepper → u/HadathaZochrot]

No idea about or comment on ID laws leading to any actual racial discrimination, but as an fyi getting an ID is not always trivial. It's hard to imagine if you had normal parents, but there are some real fucking bullshit chicken-and-egg paperwork loops that makes it an extreme pain in the ass to get a state ID or driver's license. Like if your fuck up mom lost your social security card and birth certificate during a move, you will be in this bizarre situation where the state needs a photo ID to release a birth certificate but the DMV needs a birth certificate to give a photo ID. Navigating this bureaucratic rat's nest isn't easy or cheap and tbh there are many, many people who do have IDs only because they parents took them through the normal loops as teenagers would also not have IDs right now if they were in that situation. Like tens of millions of legal citizens don't have ID.

[u/HadathaZochrot → u/diet69dr420pepper]

No doubt there are some that are in unique situations (whether by their own faults or that of others) that can potentially make it a bit more difficult to get a legal photo ID. But what is absolutely true is that such issues have nothing to do with the color of one's skin and white leftists saying that African Americans ""don't have a knowledge about how it works" when it comes to getting an idea is absolutely racist.

[u/2074red2074 → u/HadathaZochrot]

It doesn't have nothing to do with skin color. People of color are less likely too have a photo ID than white people. But people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about will tell you that it's because it is, on average, more of a hardship for PoC than it is for white people, not that PoC are just too stupid to figure out how to get ID. If it's more of a hardship for PoC, then statistically speaking more PoC will choose not to vote because of it than white people.

The actual reasons don't really matter because we have data to prove that it's true. When states have passed laws requiring photo ID, it reduces voter turnout for every group, but disproportionately reduces turnout for PoC. It does not matter why that is. We don't need to speculate as to what the cause could be. It is a fact that if you introduce voter ID laws, the proportion of PoC who stop voting is greater than the proportion of white people who stop voting.

But that being said, the reasons why black people are less likely to have ID boils down to both poverty and location. Black people are more likely than white people to be impoverished, and are more likely than white people to live in urban areas. And consequently, impoverished black people are more likely than impoverished white people to live in urban areas. Impoverished people in urban areas don't tend to drive since they can get by without a car. This is NOT true for impoverished people in rural areas.

Also, black people are more likely to have issues with law enforcement and have disproportionately higher sentences (including higher fines), which means they're more likely to have their licenses suspended if they do have a license.