What exactly is the difference between them? If I were to draw a Venn diagram, I could probably think of some contrasts. I don’t know if most conservatives really care about segregation at this point. I don’t know if conservatives are down for a genocide (though I have my suspicions). The main thing that they have in common is anything BLM or black crime related. Talk to any regular conservative about those things and they’ll turn into Derek from American History X. This is because at their core, they think the law should apply to everyone but them. They don’t care if White people get away with crimes against POC, but think POC should be executed for shoplifting.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I know a few black conservatives and maybe they're just following one stream, but their entire thing is like they took Ben Shapiro's advice about escaping poverty seriously. The whole, go to college, don't have kids after marriage, stop letting your pants sag thing. Their entire thing seems to be about trying to get black people to emulate suburban white business owners. They talk about political ideology in terms of self-help, like this is how you get out of debt, this is how you get a job in this field, this is how you keep a marriage together, stuff like that. They've entirely internalized that racism doesn't exist in the USA, but rather, black people have some kind of culture that keeps them impoverished and they act like the point of politics is to reach a point where you have a superior culture. They tried to rope me into one of their things a few years ago, some kind of group about learning financial literacy and getting into real-estate.

    They also hate BLM, but it's the same thing that white conservatives pretend to believe in. That all accusations of racism come from a "victim mindset" where you're using self-defeating thoughts instead of achieving your potential of being an investment banker or house flipper or whatever the hell.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah that's the exact sort of thing I've seen sometimes. It really does track to me as the same thing as white supremacy. It's proposing there's a correct way to be black and it involves talking, dressing, and acting in specific ways that white people are more comfortable with.