Political Weirdos

That is because in their mind, racism equals with racial prejudice with ill intents for the sake of evil. The moment you have some acceptable reason, be it some old "trauma" or statistics, all while you at least treat "the good ones" a little bit better, you're okay.

A decade plus ago, I asked these kinds of people to describe what Hitler would have been. They all described a literal saturday morning cartoon villain doing evil for evil's sake. They were shocked to learn the nazis spread the same greedy Jew stereotypes (among others) to justify their genocide they also believed in. Worst was one of my former history teacher, who said Hitler's biggest crime was not presenting crime statistics to the population.

Conservatives believe in unequality, in an almost "corpo DEI" fashion celebrating it, except it boils down to stripping women's rights because "motherhood is beautiful", and collectively punishing blacks by letting the police to shoot them on sight for "suspicion of crime".