The idea that blacks get a "free ride" is incredibly ignorant and does not at all line up with reality. Most social programs are a supplement to the incomes people receive from working. You do realize that black people, even the ones on welfare, do work, right? You do realize that not all blacks are on welfare, right? Perhaps your cartoonish views of social programs might be more to blame for this comment than anything else.
If you want liberals to stop calling conservatives racist, it would help to look at these issues with more nuance instead of throwing out rightwing banalities.
To be clear, I'm not saying that that ignorant comment you just made makes you racist. But when you make comments like that, one gets the impression that you're making judgments about blacks without any real effort at understanding, which is what racists do: purposefully misunderstand to validate their negative feelings about a certain race.
I think that a little humility would go a long way. If you stop pretending you know everything and actually examine the issues more openly, you'll find that people will be less likely to throw the r-word at you.
Now that doesn't mean that there won't be immature liberals that will still throw down the word racist in contexts where it doesn't belong. But there has to be a point in which conservatives demonstrate some self-awareness and personal responsibility about the words that come out of their mouth. As I said in my earlier post, the conservative tendency to default to victimhood stymies self-reflection and personal responsibility.
I predict that you're gonna come back with the typical angry missing-the-point rant in which you say "liberals are the ones that want to make people victims! liberals are the ones that shirk self-responsibility!" but maybe I'll be surprised.
You won't take offense when I tell you that I'm not concerned in the least with how you interpret my comments.
Whether you find something ignorant or not, what I said remains true. The Black population is disproportionately represented when it comes to welfare, crime, etc.., Ignoring it and pouting won't make it go away. Pretending this country has not bent over backwards for the treatment of this community from 150 years ago doesn't make it any less true. None of that really matters to this discussion though. As someone who could never be a leftie, I'm not supposed to look at facts because they are bad. I'm supposed to look at things through rose colored glasses and pretend these are the makings of a fantasy rather than reality.
As I mentioned earlier, as soon one mentions the elephant in the room, out comes the race card, the hatred card, etc.., The politically correct thing is to never mention the elephant. Unless one is lock, stock and barrel in the support of something, they are the lowest of the low. With the left, there is always excuse after excuse why one should never look at a statistic...unless it supports their position. To me that sounds quite naive.
Simply stating the underlined fact would not merit the race card. It is where people typically go NEXT that pulls it out.
They'll say something like "how come these people can't get their act together?" or like you did (paraphrasing) "it's been 150 years already, what's their problem?" Making the judgment or implication that a population is somehow inferior based on the underlined fact.
See the difference? Stating a fact is OK, implying judgment when you do not know ALL the facts, as GreySeal mentioned, is where you get in trouble...
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