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Recently my lead hypothesis is that many people would rather personally suffer and die if it means that black people have it worse. I read "dying of whiteness" recently, and it's haunting. "It's socialism" is just a coded way of expressing that.
Broadly, humans are happier when they have more than their neighbors. Having the biggest house in the neighborhood strongly correlates with increased happiness. Having a McMansion in a neighborhood full of other McMansions leaves people no happier, on average, than having an average mobilehome in a mobile home park. (Free public radio audio coverage, links to Washington Post text article: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/01/13/why-larger-homes-dont-lead-to-more-happiness)
In the US, having black people be "the ones with less" that makes people of other races get that "better than my neighbor" happiness boost is structurally convenient, but other groups fill that need in other cultures. Jews and communists are other common targets in Western cultures, all non-Japanese get the treatment in Japan, the Tutsis in Rwanda, the eastern ethnic groups in Russia, and on and on. This hugely common psychological tendency is damaging to creating broadly prosperous societies, but hopefully the learnings from the studies of it will help us create strategies to structurally counteract it.
Drained-pool politics.
TLDR: Whites in some parts of America drained public pools rather than integrate them. They should rather no one have a public pool than have to share it with black people.
I am sorry, but this is so strange to read and realize how different some people worldviews are...
Due to the job requirements, I travel a lot, and though I've been just for 2 months in USA accumulated, in Europe and Asia, I've met just two people with similar worldviews in around 14 years of travelling...
Everyone else I know, and I, would just not care about the color or race, or be fascinated how unique people are, and would never even be so awful towards these people to the point of being basic horrible, sorrowful racists... as you described... but just default to the understanding and believe that people were born around the world whenever they could, inheriting the local inheritance, traditions, culture, and family, and they are still people with infinitely magnificent Souls and equal rights to live and just be... human...
They would trust in people, and that it's always possible to find compromise with each other, explaining issues and finding solutions.
That is, to be humans, and trust in human, as an ineffably magnificent opportunity to be alive... and explore the infinite world...
Sorry. No... Yours is absolutely not, even remotely not the way to see and live the world... I believe, and never will. Your worldviews are utterly... sorrowful, unfair, hateful, dark, and simply, sorry, disgusting...
It's darkening to know that you live with these believes out there... and I would recommend you travelling... Please do consider discovering the world out there... to live...
Are you trying to say acclaimed book "Dying of Whiteness" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness ) is invalid because of your personal experiences?
I'm sorry but there's a large body of evidence that many people in the US are deeply racist. Not always in a "wear a hooded costume" overt way, but in more polite and dressed up to look inoffensive ways as well.
You can also read the new Jim Crow and "the color of law".
You are extremely naive to the nature of racism in the US.
Most people don't care about skin color.
Most people say they don't ... and then go on to say things like "but I wouldn't want to live somewhere that my neighbors were black" or "ICE is fine, they're only going after the illegal ones."
While true.. a more than fairly large amount of people do care about skin color. For example, 77 million (some 30-40% of voting age) people in US care more about what color someone else's skin is, then their own well being. In my country, Sweden, that percent is about 20. So no, I'd say a great deal of people do care about such idiotic things as skin color.
Yes and very extremely much no. People are afraid of change, no matter who they are. By selling you that your way of life is defined by the fact that you're surrounded by whiteness means that the powers that be can villianize marginalized communities because "they're going to destroy our way of life". That xenophobia was then weaponized to take out social programs by burdening them with largely useless administrative overhead like work requirements. Seemingly "sensible" add-ons whose only purpose was to strip as many people as possible of benefits. While also making benefits a trap of poverty (since poverty is the most profitable category for the ultra wealthy. They spend the most of their income out of all the classes and can't demand more wages lest they lose their benefits)