United States of Devonta wrote:Aureumterra wrote:"Xenophobia" as in anti-immigration? Because that doesn’t imply that the people voting for it are automatically racist or xenophobes, many people are afraid of losing jobs to immigrants who can be payed less. It’s downright dishonest to say that everyone who votes for an anti-immigration platform is a xenophobe.
Source? Numbers, statistics, something? I highly doubt there are enough racists in the US to support a political party for decades, because if that was the case, George Wallace would have won without trouble in the South
It does though. Yes, some might have economic anxiety about immigrants, but allot of that turns into hate, jealousy, and racism. It is very possible for someone to be worried about their job (even if irrational) and be racist at the same time. These things arn't mutually exclusive.
So yes, Xenophobic parties in the past have been very racist. Anyone with a basic knowledge of anti-immigration parties in the 1800s and 1920s knows this. Even now. Trump did start his campaign by calling most Mexicans rapist and murders, all be it a few good ones.
While there is often overlap, crying "Xenophobia" whenever anti immigration platforms arise discredits the actual concerns brought up, such as the replacement and outsourcing of jobs by large companies, which largely are a contributing factor to turning people xenophobic, as you yourself have said