If you think Seattle’s race relations are on the same level or even close to any red state then I sincerely doubt you’ve ever left Seattle or been to a red state.
There are racist people literally everywhere but not everywhere makes a culture out of being racist.
I lived in Texas most of my life. I wouldn’t say race relations in seattle are as life threatening as they were capable of being in Texas but I would say racism is just as common.
From my observations, and from what I have been told from people of this group in seattle, mostly african americans. You’d have to hear from other marginalized groups for more info as I am not familiar with their experience. It’s less of the explicitly violent and threatening racism you see in the south and more of the “you’re so articulate” style of racism. Lots of pearl clutching and car door locking if you know what I mean.
That’s the kind I’m used to, having grown up in that area. It’s shitty, but has it changed in the last ten years? My area was north Seattle, where it’s always been an issue.
I’m a couple hours north of Seattle, and the PNW is crawling with the Proud Boy type. I was doing memory care for people with downs syndrome and dementia, and we had to get the cops involved because somebody was prowling around the facility with a rifle slung over his back during the first trump presidency.
It’s the same problems it’s always had, but trump has deffo turned the volume up.
I mean that’s true but that’s not Seattle. I live in Kirkland which is home of the “everyone is welcome” signs in people’s yards right next to the “keep the character of Kirkland alive” signs. Which are basically liberal speak for stopping affordable housing projects because they don’t want black and brown people to move in.
Seattle has a mix of those kind of neighborhoods but is extremely diverse and leftist in other neighborhoods.
To your point about outside of the Seattle area it’s basically like every other Blue state. The farther you go from the city the more you find the Conservatives that make their entire character be centered around being a Conservative in a Blue state. But those idiots are waaay to afraid to go into the city. They are absolute losers that target minorities when they can find a time and place to do so that no one will actually give them what they’d get in Seattle. A face full of bear spray (or worse).
Seattle has its own racism problem unfortunately
If you think Seattle’s race relations are on the same level or even close to any red state then I sincerely doubt you’ve ever left Seattle or been to a red state.
There are racist people literally everywhere but not everywhere makes a culture out of being racist.
I lived in Texas most of my life. I wouldn’t say race relations in seattle are as life threatening as they were capable of being in Texas but I would say racism is just as common.
Thanks for letting me know. Haven’t been there in a few years, sad to hear it.
Against any particular group?
From my observations, and from what I have been told from people of this group in seattle, mostly african americans. You’d have to hear from other marginalized groups for more info as I am not familiar with their experience. It’s less of the explicitly violent and threatening racism you see in the south and more of the “you’re so articulate” style of racism. Lots of pearl clutching and car door locking if you know what I mean.
Isn’t this just universal in America? This sounds like liberal racism, not republicans
Yes but it is particularly common in the PNW
That’s the kind I’m used to, having grown up in that area. It’s shitty, but has it changed in the last ten years? My area was north Seattle, where it’s always been an issue.
I’m a couple hours north of Seattle, and the PNW is crawling with the Proud Boy type. I was doing memory care for people with downs syndrome and dementia, and we had to get the cops involved because somebody was prowling around the facility with a rifle slung over his back during the first trump presidency.
It’s the same problems it’s always had, but trump has deffo turned the volume up.
Gag me with a spoon. Sorry you had to handle that. You’re right though, it’s far worse everywhere.
I mean that’s true but that’s not Seattle. I live in Kirkland which is home of the “everyone is welcome” signs in people’s yards right next to the “keep the character of Kirkland alive” signs. Which are basically liberal speak for stopping affordable housing projects because they don’t want black and brown people to move in.
Seattle has a mix of those kind of neighborhoods but is extremely diverse and leftist in other neighborhoods.
To your point about outside of the Seattle area it’s basically like every other Blue state. The farther you go from the city the more you find the Conservatives that make their entire character be centered around being a Conservative in a Blue state. But those idiots are waaay to afraid to go into the city. They are absolute losers that target minorities when they can find a time and place to do so that no one will actually give them what they’d get in Seattle. A face full of bear spray (or worse).