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Uh, okay....So I have found that I might be a little racist. But I don't know if it counts. It is against a very specific group of people. And i am not sure if I have a valid reason. It is more of a subset though. It is specifically white people that I call the "golf course community" or the "gentrified" community. It really depends on the location. Mostly upper upper middle class whites. Doctors, lawyers, and so on. To me it has something to do with the fakeness and materialism and stupidity. And it isn't limited to the anti vaccine liberal idiot older hipsters or conservative dumbass disconnected idiots either. It is universal. The kicker is that I am white. And it is mostly apolitical and I see it as mainly a white cultural thing at that level.
I'd say it is tribalist, which is ultimately what underlies racism.
I'd also say it is a bit silly. There are lots of doctors who care about their patients; lawyers motivated by factors other than materialism (e.g. there are actually lawyers who help people, like Legal Aid; or, they believe in the rule of law). Playing golf -- or earning a higher income from a profession -- might alter your perspective, but ultimately it doesn't turn you into a bad person, nor are bad people more likely to become professionals, nor do these professions have any inherent characteristics.
Equally important is that upper income professionals run the gamut of political views and ideologies. There are plenty of doctors and lawyers and upper management who are conservatives, others who are liberal.
So, I'm not really clear on whom you dislike, or why.