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Do you really believe there are 15,188,406 racists in the UK and 62,984,828 racists in the USA?

If you truly believe that then I feel sorry for you, because you live in a really sad world. Is that really the experience you have living in or visiting these countries or travelling around them, that 1 in 2 people you meet are racist?

I think its a bit lazy and easy to substitue fringe views from within these two camps as the views of the majority.

If you agree that they are not the views of the majority of peoplpe who voted in these directions then clearly there are other areas that made them vote this way that could have been discussed and had there minds changed over but werent, because well racist. Everyone loves to complain that trump supporters and brexiters suffer from a lack of critical thinking, and especially conspiracy theorists, but come on. How lazy is it to say all these people are/were racists or that is why brexit/trump won.

[jashmatthews]

Sadly, this is quite evidence backed. Somewhere around 1/3rd of the UK population have racist attitudes based on multiple surveys across multiple decades. In the 60s and 70s there was close to 75% support for ending immigration into the UK for non-whites.

So yes, it's absolutely believable to have 15M racist wankers in the UK.

[zimpenfish]

> Everyone loves to complain that trump supporters and brexiters suffer from a lack of critical thinking

Which is easily demonstrated by their support for platforms and policies that crumble under the merest hint of application of critical thinking.

[pbhjpbhj]

I'd say most people want their country to "win" against others, they want to be richer than other people and want their country to be the richest sat the expense of other nations.

That's racism/xenophobia, isn't it?

Brexit seems to be predicated on the idea that Brits would rather suffer than risk the possibility that mutual benefit would be weighted towards others in the EU. That's pretty extreme racism (albeit founded on greed) IMO, and is endemic in British society AFAICT.

[CathedralBorrow]

How many racists would you guess are in the USA? I ask because it seems like you're using a very binary definition of the word.

[zimpenfish]

> How many racists would you guess are in the USA?

Obviously that depends on how you define "racist". If you define it as "votes for an explicit racist from a racist party espousing distinctly racist policies", about 62M.