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)
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.”
Most people don’t care about skin color.
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)
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.”