2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken. [View all]NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)Only a very small minority of GOP voters are actually racists/bigots. The others are just selfish and have fallen for the lie that the government is using all of their tax dollars to give free money to people who don't want to work or who are doing drugs, drinking and having many kids with different men. This same attitude exists even in areas where there are virtually no minorities and it's directed towards poor white people who get and need help. Maybe some of you who don't seem to understand this have never actually been to poor areas in the northern areas of the country, but you really need a wake up call because there is less racism than people here believe. There are plenty of biases and stereotypes that people do subconsciously, but that is NOT racism. Racism requires some actual thought and conscious beliefs. Biases do not.