You Can't Get Conservative White Women To Change Their Minds

[Bettie]

66. In a lot of cases it is absolutely true

there may be a minority who aren't actively racist, but they are sure as hell OK with racism if it serves their agenda.

I'm related to a scary number of right wingers. Most are evangelicals.

The women? They are racists in a casual way. They simply don't care what happens to POC, since they are white.

They care about their families, their children, their relatives, some of the people in their church as long as they appear to be compliant with all the "rules", which include political support for right wing agendas.

They will scream about the rights of the unborn, but once they're born? They are on their own, no help because "that woman (the mother) got herself into this, she should have kept her legs closed if she didn't want to raise a child in poverty.

They tend to be very angry that there are brown people around and that some of them don't speak perfect English. They also become very angry when reminded that some of their grandparents spoke nothing but German until the day they died. They are quick to note that those grandparents were "deserving" immigrants.

As to the article you posted? Sounds like the typical "well, I'm not a bad person" list of excuses I hear every holiday as my relatives and in-laws attempt to explain why it is A-OK to put small children in cages.