A unpopular opinion I often hear is “I actually like [insert usually dislike stuff]” and vice versa. I think this kind of take is way more common than most people believe for the sole fact that people in general have various taste.
A unpopular opinion I often hear is “I actually like [insert usually dislike stuff]” and vice versa. I think this kind of take is way more common than most people believe for the sole fact that people in general have various taste.
sexism.
and hatred against dark skinned people. Idk about West but where I live, dark skin is mocked a lot.
I live in one of the most progressive places in the USA, and the most racist people are often the progressives. They absolutely hate non-white people in real life, they only think they should have rights and freedoms in the abstract.
interesting! I thought it is only conservative Christians who hate non white people.
No no. Many of those people absolutely love them if they are personally neighbors, coworkers, etc, but absolutely hate them in the abstract and would pay to have people like them, but not them, killed.
I live in Florida and the northerners who come down are so much more racist than the native born, at least in my personal experience. My ex came from Michigan and went to an all white school up there, never met or hung out with anyone not white. They may not have explicit segregation but do have effective segregation.
So he comes down here where we were forcibly desegregated so I have friends of all sorts and my kids do & also it’s just more a block by block version of “segregation” less a side of town so we are just most often in mixed situations and holy shit he was not prepared for that. So racist he held every stereotype you can imagine.
So anyway - I kind of agree, up north it seems they are theoretically not racist but are segregated, down here more explicit trouble because we are together, but it’s getting better. Or was at least through the generation following mine, maybe not anymore, not sure.
I’ve heard the comparison as a Southern racist will tolerate a black servant living on the same street as them while a Northern racist will tolerate a black doctor living in a different town.