I’ve never talked to a conservative in my life that wasn’t at least lowkey racist. They arenot saying the hard R, they might not even be aware of their racism, or just think “that isn’t racist”. But ALL of them are at least say things like “this must be a bad neighborhood” when they see a minority and tell racist “jokes” when no ones around.
Holy shit then you’ve never spoken to a conservative. Grow the fuck up and talk to actual fucking people in real life and stop lying to yourself. Conservatives are not inherently racist
So is mine. I'm left libertarian. Only one member of my family is properly racist and has completely ostracized herself from everyone to the level of no contact. I've learn racist and sexist liberals as well. They just have a more roundabout way of it.
Yeah of course they do. I'd say like 80% of all people are racist, almost 60% of liberals and basically 100% of conservatives. It really just depends on your definition of it. People are really quick to get offended when they get called racist, but if you have implicit biases, you're at least slightly racist. SLIGHTLY. Most people are
I mean, to not be wouldn't be human. There are natural biases and some prejudice for or against any group of people. Acting on it when it's a status that people in the group were born with or can't change is the problem.
I think you misunderstood my statement. When I say groups, I don't explicitly mean ethnicities. Groups could be liberals and conservatives, for example. We have certain biases and expectations of business people, artists and long distance runners. We all have biases and expectations of each of those groups and have a tendency (that is bad) to extrapolate those sentiments and expectations to the individuals of those groups when we we know which group they are a part of. This happens with ethnicity too whether the bias is big or minuscule. Those biases aren't good, and acting on them is when it's actually a bad problem and is racist at least by that point.
If my whole family has blonde hair, and also love Head & Shoulders shampoo, would it be reasonable to conclude that blonde people in general like that kind of shampoo? Or is it more likely that it just runs in the family?
well what the fuck else is it supposed to mean? because "literally" i've interacted with hundreds on a deep level and they have all put me off with slight racism at one point or another
seen much worse from the thousands i've interacted with generally but i suppose some might not be racist. they sure are rare
If that's the case, I'm not sure you're defining racism in a useful way. If you want to prevent something serious and bad, you should draw a meaningful box around what it is so you can talk about it and argue against it. If your definition of racism covers any belief that results in any action that targets any race disproportionately more than others, then okay, maybe the overwhelming majority of conservatives are racist for wanting non-permissive immigration policies. Lots of democrats would be racist by that definition as well.
But when we define racism like that, we lose the ability to denounce racists in a way that can expect support from the general public. Instead of uniting against, say, the KKK, you're stuck lumping half the country's population in with them.
A good place to start is acknowledging that most people have at least as strong a desire to do right by others as you do. Work from that assumption to explain people's behavior, instead of noticing the effects of a policy or opinion on a race of people and jumping to the conclusion that the intent was racist.
No, it’s not. As an ideology it exists to lessen the control of the government. Admittedly it does a shit job but that is what conservatives on paper believe in
The guys that beat Rodney King and Eric Garner were video taped. It was very clearly excessive use of force. It's not innocent until proven guilty, it's pure racism, and that is where the majority of conservative ideology stems from.
Conservative doesn’t equal racist. Sure maybe the majority of white supremacists are conservative but that doesn’t mean jack shit. You’re effectively discrediting an entire political standpoint just because you once heard someone with that standpoint say something that hurt your feelings
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u/A-Hungry-Hungarian Oct 26 '19
Conservatives don’t equal nazis, the same way as socialists don’t equal radical communism. Posts like this make me honeslty a bit sad.