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Is Racism Right-Wing

Is Racism Right-Wing or Left-Wing?

  • Racism is generally right-wing

    Votes: 26 32.9%

  • Racism is generally left-wing

    Votes: 16 20.3%

  • We should not define Racism as either left or right-wing

    Votes: 37 46.8%
  • Total voters
    79
Racism actually started with the left. . . The early KKK (post Civil War) members were democrats.

"Democrats relied on the Klan to secure election victories, as Klansmen oftentimes threatened or killed competing Republican candidates. Many southern Republicans actually abandoned their campaigns due to the inability to hold meetings and attract voters while living in constant fear."

The First KKK (article) | Reconstruction | Khan Academy

But over a hundred years racism balanced out, and today racism has both the left and the right.
 
SkyChief said:
Racism actually started with the left. . . The early KKK (post Civil War) members were democrats.

"Democrats relied on the Klan to secure election victories, as Klansmen oftentimes threatened or killed competing Republican candidates. Many southern Republicans actually abandoned their campaigns due to the inability to hold meetings and attract voters while living in constant fear."

The First KKK (article) | Reconstruction | Khan Academy

But over a hundred years racism balanced out, and today racism has both the left and the right.
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They weren't the left back then. The party of Abe was the progressive party and the democrats were the conservatives.
 
The sad thing IMO is that dormant racists have been awakened to display their bonafides to display their allegiance to Trump. If they are actually not racist they contribute to the deafening silence. The regrets will come later....and for true evangelicals to seek forgiveness.
 
Racism is to conservatism like jihadism is to islam.
Not all muslims are jihadists but all jihadists are muslim.
Not all conservatives are racist but all racists are conservative.
 
SkyChief said:
Racism actually started with the left. . . The early KKK (post Civil War) members were democrats.

"Democrats relied on the Klan to secure election victories, as Klansmen oftentimes threatened or killed competing Republican candidates. Many southern Republicans actually abandoned their campaigns due to the inability to hold meetings and attract voters while living in constant fear."

The First KKK (article) | Reconstruction | Khan Academy

But over a hundred years racism balanced out, and today racism has both the left and the right.
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Democrat =\= left. They hated communists back then and called lincoln a communist. Democratic presidents were staunchly anti-communist too but keep up the denial of the southern strategy, the republican party is getting smaller and smaller
 
I chose 3. Actually surprised how many people chose 1.

Racism is an individual prejudice that anyone is capable of. When people band together and institutionalize it, as is the problem in the US, it becomes a huge societal issue.

Now I would say in modern American politics, institutional racism is a right wing conservative trait: the old Democratic Party of the South was a very conservative outfit and they upheld strict institutional racism. When the Democratic party shifted, many of those Dixiecrats fled to the Republicans and the modern Republican party has slowly transformed into a sort of Dixiecrat Lite over the last few decades - a softer version but still institutional.

But that's in politics as a whole, and as I said many an individual harbors personal prejudices. Just look at the video of that Karen in Central Park threatening to call the cops on a black guy for being black. She probably considered herself a card-carrying liberal till it was time for her to step up and confront her own biases.
 
Metanoia said:
The sad thing IMO is that dormant racists have been awakened to display their bonafides to display their allegiance to Trump. If they are actually not racist they contribute to the deafening silence. The regrets will come later....and for true evangelicals to seek forgiveness.
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I think it is more suppressed racism has been released by trump. Society through affirmative action, workplace discrimination laws and just unacceptable behavior had pushed that racism deeply below the surface. Probably the suppression made it fester. Trump has released it. It's what got him elected. Going to be hard to put this one back in the box.
 
uptower said:
I chose 3. Actually surprised how many people chose 1.
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Maybe people are confusing racism with oppression due to racial boundaries? I think oppression is more common with right-wing than left-wing. The difference with racism between right and left is the right either embrace it or are unaware of it in most cases while the left tends to be aware of racism and fight against racist actions, both internally and externally, in most cases.
 
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rickc said:
I think it is more suppressed racism has been released by trump. Society through affirmative action, workplace discrimination laws and just unacceptable behavior had pushed that racism deeply below the surface. Probably the suppression made it fester. Trump has released it. It's what got him elected. Going to be hard to put this one back in the box.
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That may not be a bad thing in the long run, assuming we do not have another four years of the same. Bringing awareness to issues that still exist but were hidden could be healthy if it also leads to those issues being addressed.
 
Xilnik said:
Maybe people are confusing racism with oppression due to racial boundaries? I think oppression is more common with right-wing than left-wing. The difference with racism between right and left is the right either embrace it or are unaware of it in most cases while the left tends to be aware of racism and fight against racist actions in most cases.
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Well as I said, politically and institutionally it's definitely more to the right of the spectrum. Individually, it's case by case.
 
Xilnik said:
Maybe people are confusing racism with oppression due to racial boundaries? I think oppression is more common with right-wing than left-wing. The difference with racism between right and left is the right either embrace it or are unaware of it in most cases while the left tends to be aware of racism and fight against racist actions, both internally and externally, in most cases.
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We are not racist nor do we support oppression. We prove it daily by our calls to freedom for all Americans.
 
Marrybore said:
Is Racism Right or Left-Wing?
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It is not right or left-wing. There are racists on both the left and the right. However, because the left in the United States is far, far more diverse than the right in the United States, in this country, in the last few decades, racism has been much more of a factor on the right than it has on the left. That doesn't mean that there are no racists on the American left. However, you get 10 racists in a room, and 8 of them will generally vote Republican.
 
uptower said:
I chose 3. Actually surprised how many people chose 1.

Racism is an individual prejudice that anyone is capable of. When people band together and institutionalize it, as is the problem in the US, it becomes a huge societal issue.

Now I would say in modern American politics, institutional racism is a right wing conservative trait: the old Democratic Party of the South was a very conservative outfit and they upheld strict institutional racism. When the Democratic party shifted, many of those Dixiecrats fled to the Republicans and the modern Republican party has slowly transformed into a sort of Dixiecrat Lite over the last few decades - a softer version but still institutional.

But that's in politics as a whole, and as I said many an individual harbors personal prejudices. Just look at the video of that Karen in Central Park threatening to call the cops on a black guy for being black. She probably considered herself a card-carrying liberal till it was time for her to step up and confront her own biases.
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That nonsense you said about both Democrats and republicans is pure debunked nonsense.
 
Marrybore said:
For a long time I was under the impression that Racism, along with Homophobia and Sexism, was right-wing. I now understand it's much more complex than that. I do still feel that Racists generally lean more towards the right-wing spectrum, as leftists generally are very anti-racist, it's part of their ideology. However, recently I encountered a number of people on this forum, who claim racism is most definitely Left-wing.
Considering that there are undoubtedly racists on both sides, though, should we really attempt to define racism in terms of this political spectrum?
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Racism, sexism, and any kind of bigotry exist among all political persuasions and all races for that matter.

Plenty of black against white too. I personally know a black business owner who only hires people of color so to speak, and he is especially fond of black women. Not a single person of any other race employed in his business. That's blatant racism, and it shouldn't be any more acceptable than white against black or any other discrimination.
 
Marrybore said:
Is Racism Right or Left-Wing?
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Racism is not a political ideology. To attribute an all too common aspect of human nature to politics is just dumb.
 
Irredentist said:
Overtly racist policies appeal to those on the right wing precisely because they stand in opposition to any "foreign" influence which might threaten the conservative ideal of what society should look like.
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You've got it exactly backwards. Racism is a form of collectivism, and collectivism is strictly left-wing. Marx was a racist, Pol Pot was a racist, early progressives like Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR were all vile racists.

Edit: Bernie's hero Castro as well:

Fidel Castro's Racist legacy
 
Robertinfremont said:
That nonsense you said about both Democrats and republicans is pure debunked nonsense.
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You mean the Dems embraced desegregation and civil rights, the segregationist Dixiecrats went to the Republican side and the GOP has held the South (and old southern sentiments) ever since?

If that is not what happened, do tell us what did.
 
aociswundumho said:
You've got it exactly backwards. Racism is a form of collectivism, and collectivism is strictly left-wing. Marx was a racist, Pol Pot was a racist, early progressives like Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR were all vile racists.

Edit: Bernie's hero Castro as well:

Fidel Castro's Racist legacy
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Racism is not exclusive to left wing or right wing ideologies. Overtly racist and discriminatory policies against ethnic groups can be enacted by anyone who stands to profit from them, whether left or right.
 
uptower said:
You mean the Dems embraced desegregation and civil rights, the segregationist Dixiecrats went to the Republican side and the GOP has held the South (and old southern sentiments) ever since?

If that is not what happened, do tell us what did.
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Dixiecrats did not move over to republicans. Democrats fought like crazy to prevent the civil rights laws signed by Johnson. Johnson was more out on the limb since he had long been anti blacks.

I posted some great videos but will recap some.

Dixiecrats never were the issue at all. They lost when they tried. So the losers simply stayed loyal to the Democrats. 1 Democrat is known to change parties and If it was over race, I do not recall him saying it. He had been a loyal Ku Klux Klan big chief so he had fans to worry about.

The South was not lost until far after 1964 but mostly due to change of population.

As a Kid at the time of those events, and a young voting adult too, I saw all of this happen.

 
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WCH said:
It's like pubic hair....everyone has some. If they tell you otherwise, they're lying.
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Some people have less than others, and some shave theirs off, but it always comes back.
 
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