Are the younger Republicans actually less racist than the older members of the GOP?

[Hardkill]

I remember Leo mentioning in his "How Society Evolves" vid, on the necessity of people from older generations dying off and being replaced by the younger generations. He said that the people from younger generations are generally more conscious and more liberal than those from the older generations. That means that younger people theoretically are in general less racist than older people are. However, I am not sure if this is the case here in America with those who are conservative or Republicans. It seems like the younger generations of Republicans or Conservatives are just as racist as the older members of the GOP are, if not worst.

What are your thoughts on this?

Edited January 10, 2022 by Hardkill

[Preety_India]

Racism is declining across the board, a good sign. 

A person is either racist or not. There's nothing like "less racist" or "more racist." 

GOP has always been a racist party. It brings racist people on board. Nothing old or new about it. That's how they appeal to hillbillies and rotten people. It wouldn't exist otherwise. 

I don't know or rather I'm not sure what good you're going to find in the GOP exactly. 

 

[Hardkill]

10 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

Racism is declining across the board, a good sign. 

A person is either racist or not. There's nothing like "less racist" or "more racist." 

GOP has always been a racist party. It brings racist people on board. Nothing old or new about it. That's how they appeal to hillbillies and rotten people. It wouldn't exist otherwise. 

I don't know or rather I'm not sure what good you're going to find in the GOP exactly. 

 

Yeah, but I wonder if racism hasn't been declining at all from the GOP or American Conservatives. I am worried that Republicans and Conservatives as a whole population may have actually gotten more racist to the point of wanting to truly back to the old times when the Jim Crow laws existed. 

Edited January 10, 2022 by Hardkill

[Preety_India]

10 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

Yeah, but I wonder if racism hasn't been declining at all from the GOP or American Conservatives. I am worried that Republicans and Conservatives as a whole population may have actually gotten more racist to the point of wanting to truly back to the old times when the Jim Crow laws existed. 

You betcha!!! 

If it wasn't for civil rights mov and all the rioting and burning (like during George Floyd), and the uproar, things could have turned ugly pretty quickly. 

It's the democrats that don't allow that to happen, don't allow the pendulum to swing too much in their direction. 

Why else do you think the Dems get remarkably high volume of votes? 

And the conservatives keep blaming the left, ironically they don't realize that they themselves helped create the Left. 

It has an uncanny resemblance to how parents wonder why their teenage kids are acting so rebellious, but fail to see how their own hateful troublesome parenting created that situation they find themselves in. 

Overall the GOP is a big joke and it remains to be seen how things are going to work out for them. 

 

[Hardkill]

15 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

You betcha!!! 

If it wasn't for civil rights mov and all the rioting and burning (like during George Floyd), and the uproar, things could have turned ugly pretty quickly. 

It's the democrats that don't allow that to happen, don't allow the pendulum to swing too much in their direction. 

Why else do you think the Dems get remarkably high volume of votes? 

And the conservatives keep blaming the left, ironically they don't realize that they themselves helped create the Left. 

It has an uncanny resemblance to how parents wonder why their teenage kids are acting so rebellious, but fail to see how their own hateful troublesome parenting created that situation they find themselves in. 

Overall the GOP is a big joke and it remains to be seen how things are going to work out for them. 

 

Well, then that's disheartening.  

Is it possible that the passing of all of the civil rights acts for the black and brown in the whole US actually merely suppressed their racism within most Conservatives and Republicans from top-down instead of actually getting them to work on transcend their racism?

As cold-hearted as this sounds I wonder if maybe the passage of all of these civil rights laws became a long-term mistake for the greater good of the country just like how it was a grave mistake for the US to go to middle Eastern countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan and try promoting democracy in those countries by way of top-down force and suppression. Communism suppressed religion in Russia and still continues to most of religion in China; however, that didn't work at all to make the citizens of each of those countries transcend religion to secularism.

Edited January 10, 2022 by Hardkill

[Yarco]

I'm not gonna bother digging up studies and research to prove it, but I disagree with the general sentiments here that younger generations are becoming less racist.

I've seen studies saying that Gen Z is actually the first generation to be more conservative, having less sex, more racist, more traditional than the generation before them in a long time.

The problem is a reporting issue. Schools are totally locked down with anti-racism, pro-LGBT and everything else nowadays. Kids are terrified to say anything about a minority group or protected class because they'll get cancelled. It's social suicide, as well as potentially ruining scholarships, jobs, etc.

But trust me that these kids are saying plenty of racist stuff in private. Even liberals can say some pretty racist stuff in private. When you make something taboo, of course kids are going to rebel against the mainstream position and do what's edgy and different.                                                                                           
If you think "Republicans" are as right-wing or racist as it gets, that's your first problem. You guys are stage green leftists just hypothesizing about what the right is actually like. Republicans are maybe 1/3 of the way to the "far right". Actual racist / right-wing people laugh at how pathetic and similar to Democrats the Republicans are today. They consider Republicans traitors because they don't nearly go far enough.

Just because racist stuff has been deplatformed off Youtube and Twitter and you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't growing elsewhere. Racist podcasts, private Discord groups, even in-person meetups are booming especially in terms of younger membership.

They say that people get more conservative as they get older. If that's true and seeing what Gen Z kids are saying in private nowadays, I think you're in for some pretty wild political times in 10 or 20 years.

Where did you come to your assumption that racism is so bad anyway, and have you ever challenged it? Are you afraid you might actually get converted over? If you're really open-minded, I'd challenge you to really listen to a racist speak sometime and see if they don't make some valid points. Not some idiot redneck either, but an actual educated race realist.

(Personally I did the opposite and gave socialists, communists, and breadtubers a fair chance, watched over 100 hours of video from them and read several leftist books to challenge my own positions. It actually did shift me to become more of a centrist, although I still like to listen to people on the right speak as well)

Edited January 11, 2022 by Yarco

[Hardkill]

7 minutes ago, Yarco said:

I'm not gonna bother digging up studies and research to prove it, but I disagree with the general sentiments here that younger generations are becoming less racist.

I've seen studies saying that Gen Z is actually the first generation to be more conservative, having less sex, more racist, more traditional than the generation before them in a long time.

The problem is a reporting issue. Schools are totally locked down with anti-racism, pro-LGBT and everything else nowadays. Kids are terrified to say anything about a minority group or protected class because they'll get cancelled. It's social suicide, as well as potentially ruining scholarships, jobs, etc.

But trust me that these kids are saying plenty of racist stuff in private. Even liberals can say some pretty racist stuff in private. When you make something taboo, of course kids are going to rebel against the mainstream position and do what's edgy and different.                                                                                           
If you think "Republicans" are as right-wing or racist as it gets, that's your first problem. You guys are stage green leftists just hypothesizing about what the right is actually like. Republicans are maybe 1/3 of the way to the "far right", which many teens nowadays are. Actual racist / right-wing people laugh at how pathetic and similar to Democrats the Republicans are today. They consider Republicans traitors because they don't nearly go far enough.

Just because racist stuff has been deplatformed off Youtube and Twitter and you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't growing elsewhere. Racist podcasts, private Discord groups, even in-person meetups are booming especially in terms of younger membership.

They say that people get more conservative as they get older. If that's true and seeing what Gen Z kids are saying in private nowadays, I think you're in for some pretty wild political times in 10 or 20 years.

If you're really open-minded, I'd challenge you to really listen to a racist speak sometime and see if they don't make some valid points. Not some idiot redneck either, but an actual educated race realist. Where did you come to your assumption that racism is so bad, and have you ever challenged it? Are you afraid you might actually get converted over?

(Personally I did the opposite and gave socialists, communists, and breadtubers a fair chance, watched over 100 hours of video from them and read several leftist books to challenge my own positions.)

So, then you think that Leo and social science experts have been wrong about the decline in overall racism, huh?