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> US political party identification is a decent though not perfect proxy for how your neighbors are likely to feel about a whole range of issues, and _people_.
by SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
> US political party identification is a decent though not perfect proxy for how your neighbors are likely to feel about a whole range of issues, and _people_.
Not nearly as much as you have been told it is. But that’s a really nice way to generalize conservatives as racists. The truth is as a local who has lived in both areas, I’ve met just as many left wing racists as right, just in different ways.
- cloverich 5y agoPeople includes people who are gay, trans, muslims, etc. But i think the broader "whole range of issuse" claim was more to the point, as someone who has spent most of their life amongst deep red friends, family, and locations, those issues come up quite a bit. And more pointedly, for example i am pretty interested (and fearful) of climate change but can't even talk about it with half my friends/ family because they don't think its real or may be offended by some of the points. It takes a toll on you.
- fundad 5y agoI find that many pro-establishment people on the left are uncomfortable acknowledging institutional racism and harbor some anti-blackness. I find more diversity of thought among anti-establishment left because what’s important to them/us is addressed by such a variety of movements rather than mainstream politics. In this sense establishment Democrats are a proxy for the anti-establishment left, many of whom can’t even vote.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoI love how saying something like "people apply politics to everything" immediately makes conservatives feel like they need to convince everyone that they aren't racist.