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do nice conservatives exist? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 7 months ago by anoncafe@lemmy.cafe to c/politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

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all the ones i know are either homophobic AND racist, for example, or one or the other. if they aren’t racist, they hate gays and if they aren’t homophobic, they hate people of color.

that’s the only people i know of. i knew a bi girl who was/is conservative but she doesn’t talk much about politics so idk what she is now. anyway, she loved trump and HATED immigrants of any kind but she wasn’t at all homophobic.

meanwhile, my ex-gf called gays the “alphabet community” said she was one of the good sapphic girls and said that latinos and haitians are animals who eat dogs and they’re evil, coming to kill all the americans. she’s also blasian so idk how she’s so racist, her grandma was an immigrant from vietnam.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 7 months ago

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand what conservatism is. According to Wikipedia,

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

This means that the injustices inherent to these things are also fiercely protected. It's impossible to support such a thing wholesale (or basically wholesale) and be "nice."

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