(05-29-2019 08:46 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 05:34 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 04:59 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 04:48 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(05-29-2019 04:30 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  My work experience with respect to running into conservative who were explicitly racist has been limited to the blue collar guys I work with. I try to avoid all political talk when possible, but I've had a few situations (primarily when Obama was president), where certain words were used by drillers and rig operators to describe the then POTUS which you don't use if you aren't, ya know, at least a bit racist.

I don't share the same view of the prevalence of racism among conservatives I run into through work or fun.

That’s similar to my experience - and in my case, the folks in the former category are not people I really know. It’s a lot different from 93’s “all walks of life”.

But the claims that surprised me most were the ones about not knowing ANY racist leftists or ANY unpatriotic ones. Again, I see plenty of examples of each just among Facebook friends.

George, you claimed that you didn't know ANY racist conservatives... that is just as surprising to me. Your stated experience is that leftists are more likely to be racist than conservatives. I also find this surprising. Every facebook "friend" that posts borderline racist things on my feed is a conservative. You find liberal facebook "friends" posting things that are racist but never your conservative "friends"?

Correct. Why does that surprise you?

Because it is opposite to my experience. Probably to most people's experience as well. I'll bet if you polled a bunch of people and asked them "Who is more likely to post something on facebook that many would consider racist... a conservative or a liberal", the vast majority of people would answer "conservative". Not that no liberals are racist or that all conservatives are racist, mind you.

Perhaps because it is also a central tenet of most progressivist thought that 'racism' can only be exhibited in one direction in a racial sense. Did you ever stop and think that perhaps that bias just *might* be present in a poll?

To be blunt, if one is blind to the idea that racism can even exist from, say, an African American and directed to whites, kind of hard for them to express that in a poll when that locked view into a one-directional modality would seemingly be ingrained into them.

And yes, that belief is rather prevalent in the progressive camp.