re: #137 HappyWarrior

I can’t say that every conservative I’ve ever met has been racist but most of the really racist people I’ve known have been right wing and have hated liberals.

I can’t say that they are overt racists (in the sense of using racist language, joining the Klan, &c), but nearly every conservative I have met has no trouble pulling the lever for (R-Overt Racist).

In my mind, such an action (voting for a known racist who would make policy based on racism) makes you a racist. Not in the sense you’d ban someone from your business over race, but you are fine with allowing people to write laws that would permit that.

In a similar vein, while a person might not be interested in restricting women’s rights, if they are fine voting for a person who would, in my mind that person is still a misogynist.

Both would only care if those positions affected them personally (for example, “The only moral abortion is my abortion.”)