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In reply to the discussion: Wow, the Deplorables really don't like us [View all]LeftinOH
(5,353 posts)..and I am only using the term 'blacks' as a euphemism; deplorables know what they mean.
Mind you, the deplorables have "lots of friends" who are gay and/or black (and they will
ALWAYS remind you of it), and they are outwardly 'nice' to the gays and/or blacks they happen to know, but in general, they have no use for either communities- and they will eagerly vote in the direction that seems the most inclined to disenfranchise either group. But they are totally not prejudiced - and they resent anyone suggesting that they are. After all, they are Republicans... the party that freed the slaves, so how on earth could they be prejudiced?
Sure, there are other variables: Military & law enforcement hagiography; gun fetishism; religion, abortion, etc. But the deplorables' revulsion towards non-white communities and the LGBTQ community is the heart and soul of modern conservatism.